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Treaties are interpreted by the courts in the same way as any contract: According to the 'meeting of the minds' of the parties. Sometimes there are letters between parties, etc, that the court uses to clarify. And the courts do interpret treaties in the modern context. Thus, Aboriginal 'hunting, fishing' rights are interpreted as the right to sustain themselves from their traditional land, and may now include receiving revenues from activity on that land - mining, building, etc. "The intent of the Canadian government has always been to honor the treaties ..." by the law. The government doesn't determine how that's done. Nor do you or other random Canadians. The courts decide that. I don't really care if you agree. I didn't make the laws. Inform yourself about treaty interpretation. The rest of your post is just opinion and bafflegab.

Omar Khadr "defected to AlQuaida" ... at 10 years of age???!!! "He should not be entitled to the full protection of Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms." Every Canadian, guilty or innocent, at home or abroad, is entitled to best efforts to uphold their Charter Rights. Where does the Sun find these stupid people to write such stupid stuff??

You're right, after trial. But he left him in Gitmo for years and sent CSIS to interrogate him, violating Khadr's Charter rights instead of providing support in upholding them. I have no horse in the Lib-Con race. They are both at fault, and regardless, it is the Government of Canada's liability now. Trudeau is just doing what the GoC is ordered to do by the courts.

Not quite true: Chretien was PM when Khadr was incarcerated, and refused to help him. Then Harper also. But politics are irrelevant to the Government of Canada's liability.

Load of crap. No understanding of law.

Persue it as a political issue if you want, but it's really just a legal issue now, and the Government of Canada has been found liable by the court.

It appears that Canada did not pick up on his father's AlQuaeda bagman activities at the time he immigrated. That is in no way the fault of his son Omar, who was born in Canada. There seems to be some failure of intelligence or comprehension here that some people here confuse Omar with his father: He was a child doing what his father demanded. No other child soldier in the world has ever been convicted of crimes in war, except Omar Khadr. And that is largely because Canada failed to protect his Charter rights and in fact participated in his illegal ill treatment. And some of Canada's failure can be blamed on public wailing and gnashing of teeth of conservatives with no respect for Charter rights, who want him to pay for his father's crimes. That's disgusting.

Omar Khadr can only be held responsible for his own behaviour as an adult. Omar Khadr has never "shit on this country". It is disgusting that some people want to punish him for the behaviour of other members of his family. That violates every legal principle that guides civil society. Some people need to try hard to think a little more maturely. :/

The courts don't like assigning dollar awards, encourage parties to come to agreement themselves. He was held, interrogated and tortured for 10 years without trial, without due process. Canada collaborated and participated in that process, all violations of his Charter rights as determined by the Supreme Court.

$90m is 5 years of normal federal funding. I gave you the list of what it's for - normal government services. DeBeers has nothing to do with that and did not give them any money "upfront". You are not being sincere. You are misleading and misinforming.

Ya Trudeau is so much worse than Hitler and Stalin ...! :/ Lol

There is so much wrong with that Sun article, I'm not bothering to parse it. The 2012 poll isn't there.

Genocide is genocide. It is the deliberate destruction of cultures, however it is done.

That's kinda ridiculous. They call themselves "western chauvinists".

You two are welcome to any opinion you like, but it doesn't change the facts of law: Canada accepted responsibility for treaties at Confederation, perhaps not intending to honour them but the Supreme Court ruled that we must.

Yes, change took time.

Ya, and then it all started to change after the war. The concentration camps kind of put a damper on the ideas of white supremacy that defined Canada to that point. My favourite WWII veteran was horrified that white supremacists today are using the red ensign, because he and his buddies did fight against discrimination. Don't you try to tell me what he fought for. He told me himself. And don't you get ignorant about it b-c or I will hunt you down and rip your f'n face off.

Actually the National Post is good too, but it doesn't say what you said. There was no $90m upfront, certainly not from DeBeers. That malarky was Harper bafflegab. I guess he tricked you? http://nationalpost.com/opinion/brett-hodnett-the-real-math-behind-attawapiskats-90-million/wcm/66f4f973-8506-480e-a1ca-bfd2bb837a84 $90m over 5 years for education per pupil education infrastructure (maintenan­ce, repair, teacher salaries, etc) health-care per patient health-care, infrastruc­ture (clinics, staff, access to services outside the community in the absence of facilities on reserve) social services (facilitie­s, staff, etc) infrastruc­ture (maintenan­ce and constructi­on) a myriad of other services And $5.8m for housing. This is just their normal federal funding. They didn't " lose" any money. That was Harperlies and slander propaganda. Really f'n creepy. Did you fall for it Hal? Or are you part of it?

Not really. Hff post was much more accurate. See above.

Source? I found it. That $90m didn't come from DeBeers. That was Harper adding up five years of their funding to bamboozle people like you: "Thus, $90 million refers to the total of an average of about $18 million per year in federal funding since 2006." http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/chelsea-vowel/attawapiskat-emergency_b_1127066.html

I think government underfunding of services (intentional neglect), failure to resolve land claims, failure to ensure that they get proper revenues from development are the most significant financial factors. And the intergenerational trauma from residential schools is very significant too.

I think there are things we could do first, should have done before now, as I said above: "I'd rather they were properly funded for services, land claims were settled for capital to start businesses so they can be more self-sufficient, paid proper revenues from development on their traditional lands, rivers lakes and forests cleaned of industry contamination ... And I think every Canadian needs to understand: The conditions in Indigenous communities are not due to Indigenous cultures, but due to Canada's genocidal acts against those cultures."

Did you pull those numbers out of a hat?

No I'd rather they were properly funded for services, land claims were settled for capital to start businesses so they can be more self-sufficient, paid proper revenues from development on their traditional lands, rivers lakes and forests cleaned of industry contamination ... And I think every Canadian needs to understand: The conditions in Indigenous communities are not due to Indigenous cultures, but due to Canada's genocidal acts against those cultures.

That's interesting information. Do you have a source?