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Originally Posted by Resurrection
I wish a Prime Minister with some balls would just end the reserve system. Give all indigenous peoples a lump sum pay out and cut off the money from there. Join the rest of us in the 21st century. Want to live on the reserve? Your reserve will have to pay for its own clinics with property taxes like anyone else.
The reserve system has done nothing but decimate the indigenous peoples in our country to a sort of slavery. They live in dilapidated communities where suicide rates are off the charts. All so white liberals can feel good about sending them money for stealing their lands centuries ago. Its gross racism of low expectations.
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What you want is impossible. There is no legal basis for the government to unilaterally end the reserve system as it's part of our constitution and any changes must be negotiated. Which is possible, but it's going to be a very expensive and long process. The Nisga'a nation (about 6,000 people) received nearly 2,000 square km of land and almost $200M as part of their agreement in 1998.