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Originally Posted by peter12
1) Indians and aboriginals are both politically charged terms. Neither is more correct than the other. It's actually more respectful to refer to each band by their own name.
2) I never said the solution was going to be easy. It's a mess. Doesn't help that certain stakeholders have radicalized the movement for their personal gain.
Somebody does need the balls to do something. Any significant policy change must start with the political will. Who right now in Canada has that political will? Nobody.
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Aboriginals is a culturally approved term, Indians is just plain incorrect. You could be talking about two distinct and unrelated cultural groups by using it.
Of course nobody has the political will to do anything! It's Canada! I hate to say it, but I think the culture of hand outs is directly related to our transitory democratic government. Everyone has a set term of a few years, which means problems can be passed on to future governments. All the people in power need to do is throw money at people till they are happy, retire and watch the process occur all over again. In some ways, a more static government might be benificial, but we all know where that goes.
Unfortunately, problems like this need to be fixed from the bottom up. Perhaps as a society we should start focussing on promoting more social activism and participation?