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Jim McMurtry's avatar

“Grievance from one side and apology/submission from the other.”

No improvements in indigenous communities. More trucks, bigger TVs, dope, fentanyl, fetal alcoholism, suicide, incest, teen parents, child neglect, unemployment…

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Brian Giesbrecht's avatar

I have great respect for Tom Flanagan, but I think he is wrong. The Harper type of “incrementalism” doesn’t work of the indigenous file. Each concession to indigenous separateness and increased funding only brings on demands for more of the same. Indigenous people who have assimilated do well on this gravy train, but the huge indigenous underclass that has not remains stagnant. Meanwhile, we are saddled with UNDRIP, Aboriginal Title, etc all of which steadily undermine the economy and integrity of the country. A phased out termination of the entire rotten Indian apartheid system is inevitable and must happen

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