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Originally Posted by Doady
What about the Unreported Crime Data?
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It's unreported... Probably for a reason, ie: it was too minor or just some silly thing between friends.
If
every single law breaking act was reported automatically by some sort of brain chip thing, we'd all have pretty extensive rap sheets.
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Originally Posted by drew
What is the Provincial NDP to do? Aboriginal issues fall under INAC which is a federal agency. The Provincial NDP have absolutely no power to affect the daily lives of those who live, or did live, or have family who live, or are affected by those who lived...on reserves.
The problem is that the bulk of the absolutely crushing aboriginal poverty cases occur in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and NWO, and the powers that be are sheltered from the affects of this poverty (hello crime data) in places such as Ottawa and Toronto.
We know there is a problem with the system. But until that problem starts affecting the daily lives of those in "central" Canada, nothing real will be done to address the underlying issues. Areas of Winnipeg will be complete ghettos before that happens.
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I think it is time for the provinces to subvert the Indian Act and simply start helping out First Nations.
But considering Ontario's treatment of reserves around the Ring of Fire and the premier's reaction today to Atleo's request for a national inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women and girls, I really doubt they would ever do that. Until the old boys club of middle-age white men reaches its life expectancy and dies off so that our generation can take its place (provided we don't get as fucked up as they are by then), nothing will really change.
Unless aboriginal people revolt. They're already starting to.
The problem is definitely getting worse with each generation.
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Originally Posted by khabibulin
The federal government has no responsibility for aboriginals who decide to live off reserve.
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Living off reserve and not being a band member are two separate things. Most First Nation people in Thunder Bay are band members, and therefore are subject to the Indian Act. Otherwise, they wouldn't have status cards, and would be subject to all of the same laws that us non-aboriginals are subject to, ie., all of them but the Indian Act.
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Originally Posted by khabibulin
The only way to change that would be to reopen treaties one through eight.
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There are actually 11 numbered treaties and a dozen or so other treaties that pre-date them, as well as various First Nations that aren't subject to any treaties (unceded or independent), the complex treaty process in BC that was never subject to treaties, and the agreement with the Inuit of Nunavut.
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Originally Posted by khabibulin
And INAC is not the name of the federal department anymore. They are now called Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC). I think the federal government is well aware of the issues with the system. Oka, Ipperwash Park, Caledonia and Atawpiskapat are not easily forgotten.
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Oka is still a fairly contentious issue... in Oka. Caledonia's occupation continues with no progress whatsoever. Ipperwash Park is still under Ontario control. Attawapiskat is largely out of the media spotlight now. Natuashish (Davis Inlet) has been allowed to fail again because aside from the relocation, nothing was
really done to improve their situation. Kashechewan still floods every year. Dozens of First Nations are being given more money to buy bottled water than to maintain water treatment plants in Northern Ontario and elsewhere. First Nations have to beg the government to give them money for schools and when they receive it, they get barely half the funding that provinces give to regular schools. That so many of their students actually make it is a miracle, and they're the ones that will pave the way to a better future. You guys complain about natives getting "free education", but the ones receiving that "free education" are the ones that are lifting their people up.
The Federal Government approves all First Nation budgets. AANDC actually signs off on all that "corruption" you guys bitch about. Oh yeah, AANDC is aware of the problems. It doesn't give a fuck.
The amount of red tape involved in dealing with AANDC and the complexities AANDC has introduced into the system of governance for First Nations communities is a core reason that so many of them have failed at effectively governing. When it comes to ineffective and unnecessary bureaucracies, AANDC takes the top spot on the list. The Indian Act has to be completely deleted from the books and AANDC dissolved if we are to see any progress, because ultimately it is that law and the ministry it created that are causing the bulk of the problems. It is institutionalized racism and it has to end.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Wow. UK has twice our population almost and has ten times less. A lot of countries on there have way more people than us but a lot fewer gun deaths.
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Brits are knife-crazed. They have a serious problem with stabbings.
When people are angry and want to kill someone they're going to do it. Banning guns just made it a little bit harder to do so. Ultimately it did nothing to actually prevent or stop the killing.
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