Thats really not discrimination. Common, its been 300 years, the Indians
need to move on. Its not there land anymore. No matter what they like to
think or beleive. Get with the PLAN, you are no CANADIANS. The best
citizens in the world ;)
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Canada, for all of its reputation as a very liberal society, has been
cited by the United Nations several times for its less than stellar
history of discrimination against Natives and Métis.
Canada insists on controlling their Indians totally. The government
determines who is, and who is not an Indian. The government
determines whether or not an Indian is allowed to belong to a tribe or
band. And the government has had a determined policy to eliminate all
Indians as an ethnic group.
Yes, I mean they have, and until very, very recently continued to try
to eliminate Indians as a group, as a culture, and to totally
eliminate Indians as an identity. Until 1984, an Indian woman that
married a non-Indian was instantly stripped of her Native identity.
Until recent years, it was government policy to force all natives to
live off of reserves (what Americans call reservations), to eliminate
their speaking in their native tongues, etc.
Even today, the government strongly resists Natives and Métis from
having any specific rights of their own.
The government refuses to even honor the very treaties that ended the
American Revolution and the War of 1812. Both of those treaties had
specific clauses that allowed Indians to cross the international
boundary between Canada and the USA, and to take any goods they wished
with them. Canada refuses to allow this to happen. (The US honors
that treaty to the letter by the way).
In many of the provinces, the Ku Klux Klan, and similar organizations,
are flourishing. There is a great deal of resentment against
minorities emigrating to Canada. There is a generalized belief among
the "rednecks" that such minorities are treated better than native
Canadians, that they receive vast sums of money denied to native
Canadians, and that their children get a better chance at higher
education. (NONE OF THIS IS TRUE BY THE WAY.)
As a result, there is a great deal of tension, especially in the
western provinces, but to a degree everywhere.
Canada is not the bastion of understanding and warmth that they would
have everyone believe.
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