The man behind Stephen Harper

[Abeja de Almirante]

Are you suggesting mass assimilation and denying historical aboriginal claims to the land is the solution?

IMO, Canada's position in native populations has been dreadful. Generation after generation of native peoples have essentially been given free houses (in many cases in dreadful conditions) and guaranteed income supplements. No population of whatever origin would be able to thrive if given nothing to fight and work toward. These are peoples who have been failed by the Federal government, who have essentially been put on pan-generational welfare.

I propose that the Federal government get out of the native-management business all together. Drop all subsidies, tuition breaks, tax-free status, housing allowances, etc...and instead settle their land claims, give them land and resource ownership, make them equal to the rest of Canadians by collecting taxes (right now, they are far below being equal to the rest of Canadians), give them something to work for, to own, to care about.