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Canada's 150th birthday approaches, and it has been accompanied by a growing whinging from natives, a whinging which is frankly offensive and derogatory, and more than a little racist. Yesterday they demanded to be allowed to put up a tipi on parliament hill, and of course, the Trudeau government caved. Calling us 'settlers' and 'colonists' they continue to insist that no one has any rights to the land here but them. And of course, the hand-wringing, spineless progressives all bow down before them, wracked by guilt and self-loathing. Which is all total garbage. Let's start with what the natives and their moronic progressive allies continually look back on as the garden of eden prior to Columbus. Well, it was no garden of eden. Most of the natives in our part of the Americans were hunter/gatherers, while others had basic agrarian lives. They were hard, grasping, hand-to-mouth lives which ended quickly (and in 20% of the case by violence). The average lifespan was no more than 35. During those short lifespans they spent virtually all their time and efforts trying to feed themselves. There had been no scientific progress or advances in 1000 years. In fact, scientists say the natives were less healthy just prior to the arrival of Europeans, than their distant ancestors had been. And there were no trainable animals in all the Americans which could be used to help with farming or transportation. As you can imagine, trying to farm with horses and oxen is back breaking work. But trying to farm without them is far worse. And if the Europeans had never arrived, life here would still be the same way. So natives should be thanking the Europeans for arriving and pulling them out of endless eons of short, miserable lives of hardship and starvation. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/teepee-erected-on-parliament-hill-was-for-ceremony-not-protest-says-grassroots-group http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=5991

You are entitled to your own opinions, but are not entitled to your own facts. There are no 'sovereign' nations within Canada, and there are no indigenous nations. A thousand odd people is not a nation. It is a tribe.

The courts have never even been asked the question. Canada has never made the effort to limit immigration by religion. On the other hand, it doesn't need to limit it by religion. We could simply say that women without education or job skills aren't admissible. Or we could say people from certain countries which have proven over the years to collectively produce economically unsuccessful immigrants aren't admissible. We have the right to decide on who would make the best immigrants based on economic success and cultural fit.

Canada's past and present says otherwise....this is wishful thinking that ignores reality.

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I hardly think the international world cares about whether we end a 150 YO treaty over land claims with the FN's.

Fine, but the fishing treaties say nothing about using a 100" seine boat (and top notch electronics) or half mile gill net...or 40' lobster boats with 200 traps, and if they want land, fair enough, but not land developed by whitey. It seems strange that they care more about land claims in Vancouver than they do in NWT, coincidence maybe.

We have the other 364 days of the year to worry about that stuff. Stop being a debbie downer and let's celebrate being in easily one of the greatest societies in the history of human existence. If they were dumb enough to spend 1 billion well get out there and enjoy your money!

People should read a bit, perhaps Lawrence H.Keeley, 's War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage before deciding "whitey bad FN good." There was plenty of internecine war before we arrived. And Canada receives high grades, perhaps too high, for their handling of FN compared to the U.S.'s handling of Native Americans.

In light of all the references to the 4th century when it comes to denigrating Islam to justify our policies all I can say is.... /facepalm

Sad as that statement was it was the cold truth.

We all have to deal with the laws of our land, and that includes treaties and Aboriginal rights. The law is always complex, but it's the best way we have to "try to get along".

There are plenty of things that were laws or treaties written over 150 years ago that don't apply in 2017. Should were revisit all the laws of the 1800's? Treaties shouldn't apply, reserves don't work and you people clinging on to these archaic documents are part of the "First Nations" people's problems.

Treaties are all outdated and shouldn't be recognized as anything except museum pieces. The world has moved on - sorry.

Where's my cheque?

What the hell is Bono and his gang, a foreign group, doing performing at Canada Day party on the Hill. Don't we have enough Canadian artists we have to import them for our national holidays?

Who cares about democracy in Saudi Arabia ? You may not approve, but oil matters far more than democracy for the Saudis, Iranians, Iraqis, or Kuwaitis. And it's not just the U.S. or the West that holds oil in such high regard. Canada's $15 billion arms sales to SA is this reality, not any alt-left universe or ideology.

None, I'd say. It seems that leftists ran away because they got too upset that their views are not unilaterally approved of by all. They went to a safe space where there is very little dissenting point of view.