I really hope this incident and the others that will for sure come out of this investigation are the catalyst for significant change on a go forward basis. This may not be the most politically correct post here but please bare in mind I am not saying this from a point of blame on behalf of First Nations people, but a blame on those in power and how we can best assist and allow FN to thrive. All throughout history we have dozens and dozens of examples of people that have been persecuted, owned, occupied, enslaved and had generally bad things including genocide or attempted genocide etc. A lot of examples of those people thriving, persevering and generally having positive effect over time.
It doesn't seem to happen to Canada and it's relationship with FN people and it needs to. We are so far behind in terms of basic things in 2021 that it's just flat out embarrassing and probably even criminal if we dig in deep.
Please excuse my bluntness but the "business and economy" that has been built around dealing with FN is criminal theft on behalf of those in power, generally governments, NGO's and a lot of white people. It needs to stop!
We could start off by pretty much firing 90+% of anybody who has any sort of employment related to this and be done with them. Across all levels of government we have mountains of mostly white people making good salary, pension and benefit jobs doing virtually nothing than enriching themselves. We are at the point with some of this were even if we threw a trillion dollars at the problem, we would still have issues like poor living conditions, lack of clean water and poor education. Why is this? It's not a funding problem.
We can take the savings from this cleaning house and than directly provide it to FN, allow them best to use their funding and unleash all the BS rules, regulations and laws that we have with them. It is literally absurd what happens.
I recall what Jody Wilson Raybold said about potentially being made FN Minister. She felt she was going to be in charge of just handing out welfare and more chq's .
If we really start to have open and honest conversations about things, we may find that we have a problem with a lot of government type white people trying to protect their own interests. I am already seeing some of it in the news now. Calls for a ton more funding, people looking into more things, more departments in Ottawa and more.
Changes need to happen in a lot of ways, but not the type of changes that those in power want to happen as it isn't in their best interest. The usual tricks being played by the powers at be can't be allowed to happen.
The classic exampled of a suspect contract for something basic that is literally running 10 X the cost, being done poorly and with no rational reason or logic needs to be looked at. Just because questions are needed to be asked, can't be called out as racist so those involved can protect themselves.
We need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves why are we so far behind and what is allowing this poor performance to continue?
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