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So industry can just contaminate everything and people just have to move out? How 'bout industry clean up their f'n messes instead of BURYING IT!!

Depends if it's been contaminated by the resource industries. Grassy Narrows, for example, with over 50 years of mercury contamination ... clearcutting, pulp mill, buried contaminants, fish with ugly growths on them. The trees are gone, the animals are gone, the fish are sick ... And so are the people, 20% percent of them have Minimata disease from mercury poisoning.

You are wrong.

Not the majority. Harper is a sociopathic creep who left a 15 year old Canadian (born) kid to be tortured. Omar Khadr cannot be held responsible for the actions of his father. But you're right: Harper did make that error in justice, punishing the son for the sins of the father. Because ... Harper ... creep.

Good luck with that! Lol

Mine. Lol In fact, all of them I expect, for decades now. Good grief, Argus. The rink is the only thing to do in northern communities! It was a very smart thing to do ... for the kids.

Racists are not useful in the military. In fact, I can't think of anywhere that they are useful. Lol

They've already endured many heinous forms of 'convincing', and persisted. You and others must stop saying that as it sounds like forced relocation again. "Traditional territories and their Aboriginal and treaty rights" do help when the government stops stalling and actually settles land claims. That's how other FN communities have started businesses to become self supporting.

Lol You think it's horrifying for them? Imagine how horrifying it is for the Indigenous people who are called on to reeducate them! I think we need to rethink that concept.

It doesn't. Genocide is genocide. "The drafters of the 1948 Genocide Conventionconsidered the use of the term, but later dropped it from their consideration.[4][5][6] The legal definition of genocide is unspecific about the exact way in which genocide is committed, only stating that it is destruction with the intent to destroy a racial, religious, ethnic or national group as such.[7]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide 'Cultural' genocide is a term chosen by the TRC/churches to make it more palatable to Canadians. Genocide is genocide. It is attempting to destroy them as groups, along with any legal and land rights they have.

If you want an accounting of how they use their money, check any FN website. Doing anything to them against their wishes, without their consent, is just not going to happen. When you say "join the rest of us", do you mean give up their traditional territories and their Aboriginal and treaty rights? That's not happening.

See my post above fof link to the UN Convention on genocide, the definition used in international law. It's about destroying peoples as an identifiable group.

Yes there are types of genocidal strategies. Genocide does not mean just killing people: It means attempting to destroy them as a group, so they no longer exist as a group, but are absorbed into the dominant population. UN definition: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CrimeOfGenocide.aspx "Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Canada tried to destroy Indigenous peoples 'as such', in a variety of ways, to take full control of the land and its wealth of resources. That is genocide.

That's disgusting.

Cultural is an adjective describing a type of genocide.

? They did shoot him repeatedly, but not lethally. I'm not sure what your point is here.

Because ... Harper.

Oh I think we can easily do without them in the military. However, a course of reeducation wouldn't hurt them and some oversight/,controls on their extracurricular Proud Boy activities would be good.

They're neonazi racist types. Their use of the red ensign (like other white supremacist groups) signifies their allegiance to the Canada that used to only allow white immigrants. They don't like the Canada of today. The Armed Forces disapproves of them bringing bad publicity on them. Also, it signifies that they may not be able to work effectively in their units with nonwhite colleagues. Their Proud Boy founder/leader: " On CBC News Network Wednesday, host Hannah Thibedeau asked McInnes, "Given Cornwallis issued a bounty on the scalps of Mi'kmaq people, can you see why the Indigenous people were protesting?" McInnes replied: "Can you see why Cornwallis issued a bounty on Mi'kmaqs?" " http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/07/05/cbc-interview-with-proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-goes-off-t_a_23018129/ Oh, now isn't that just special! :/ Seriously ... neonazi white supremacists are cement heads. Can't think their way out of a wet paper bag. It's some kind of learning disability I guess. They just keep talking in irrational circles, and can't adapt to modern civilization. We'll see what the CAF does with them. It'll be re-education to stay in, for sure!

You don't see the word 'genocide' in "cultural genocide"?

You cannot forcibly move people.

Ah ... Back to forcible removal. And slandering all FN. And advocating destruction of cultures. We already tried the genocide route. That's how we got here. You're a couple hundred years behind.

In North America, the majority of terrorist attacks have been by right wing Christians.

Seems pretty important to me, for the youth.

Once the government gets around to settling outstanding land claims.