Tom has absolutely the right take in this. In its
expiring stage the government of King Trudeau I
proposed a plan under which Indian reservations
would have been given the status of munipalities
in which residents would have been able to own
land with a proper title. The enterprise was shot
down by the band leaders who realized that they
would lose control. The resemblance to the CWB
monopoly is almost too much to stand. The
Jonathan Kay piece in the National Post is an eye
opener. The aboriginals are not free, not free to
succeed or fail. That is one tragedy. The other is
that the alleged leaders do not have enough faith
in their own people to imagine that many of them
could be entirely successful if they were permitted
to join the 21st century.
expiring stage the government of King Trudeau I
proposed a plan under which Indian reservations
would have been given the status of munipalities
in which residents would have been able to own
land with a proper title. The enterprise was shot
down by the band leaders who realized that they
would lose control. The resemblance to the CWB
monopoly is almost too much to stand. The
Jonathan Kay piece in the National Post is an eye
opener. The aboriginals are not free, not free to
succeed or fail. That is one tragedy. The other is
that the alleged leaders do not have enough faith
in their own people to imagine that many of them
could be entirely successful if they were permitted
to join the 21st century.
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