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Originally Posted by BoLevi
I'm fine with negotiating an elimination of the terms of the treaties.
The treaties are ultimately an agreement to pay people to be racially segregated. Assuming we can all agree that racial segregation is not a morally acceptable position, how do you "negotiate in good faith" to exit an arrangement which is segregation by race?
What does a failure to negotiate an outcome result in? A continuation of the status quo: racial segregation with a financial annuity to make everyone feel better?
What does a successful negotiation look like? A one-time payout? A pension plan that declines over generations to a trickle and then stops? How do you manage checking in on individual genetic make-up to determine what you are owed?
This sins-of-you-fathers business is sure complicated.
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It’s no more complicated than you inheriting a house from your parents. If the Canadian government wanted to live up to the treaties it signed it could have done that. Or if it wanted integration it could have negotiated it. Instead the government spent 150 years trying to exterminate and undermine the treaties for the benefit of colonialists.
This is only difficult because Canadians don’t want to recognize indigenous peoples as their own nation with their own governance as was agreed to in the treaties. Your statement effectively is saying that indigenous people need to be just Canadians. That was a non-starter 150 years ago and likely is today.
At the same time you have all but 1 MP willing to recognize without debate the French people as a nation who can unilaterally amend their constitution.