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Pam Palmater on the UN report, "The Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada"

Indigenous Nationhood I get frustrated reading this sort of thing. I really, really do. Because I agree with most everything the author says. However, within, I feel it's close to ineffective, this sort of report. It's slapping on a piece of paper to the Canadian government saying, "See, even these people think you're treating us awfully!" The Canadian government, in response, would probably yawn at us and then have security to take us away. For over a hundred years, the Canadian government has had one policy when it comes to First Nations that it seriously pursues. One. Not two. Not three. Only one. It is simply, " Enough to keep them alive ". Anything more than that for the First Nations of Canada is absolutely contrary to what it, the Canadian government, has done over a century. Stephen Harper and his government will never accept First Nations rights. Never. Not one person in his government will ever accept First Nations to have any valid histor...