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Nobody said they can't have their traditional cultures, providing they do not break the laws of Canada. Canada is sovereign over the whole country and all people are subject to the laws and authorities that govern Canada. People are free to have their own traditions as long as they don't run afoul of the laws which are designed to protect everyone. As far as I know laws against potlatches were abolished long ago. But potlatches can cause serious problems if you look into it. In non-native society, everyone has to work in a regular job in order to pay for the cost of living. This was a change that many natives found hard to accept or adjust to. Their old way of life disappeared and it was necessary to adjust to the times. Their tradition was only to work when it was needed for harvesting food, while the women did much of the day-to-day work at home. Money was not a part of life as I already explained. In modern civilization, most people must work in a steady job 8 hrs a day and five days a week to earn money to support their families. Some never did accept that and live in poverty or on welfare and government handouts. Add drugs, alcohol and domestic abuse to that and you end up with the mess many found themselves in and prisons with an excessive number of aboriginals in them.

The problems they have with drugs, alcohol, and domestic abuse, are largely of their own making. They have been told all along that drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence are the wrong way to go, but many just choose to ignore the warnings. You can't force people not to do those things. Blaming white man for all the problems is the the way of shifting the blame, but not everyone buys it. The government spends billions of dollars every year to help them. But there are corrupt leaders among them to have helped themselves at the expense of their own people. Yes there are many things they have to accept responsibility for and stop blaming others. Also, they could not support themselves on their traditional ways of making a living for a variety of complex reasons. They could not survive by just working when they wanted to. The world changed and the old way of life was no longer sustainable. Why are you in denial? If you really want to know the answers as to why they could not remain in their old way of life after the arrival of Europeans and settlement, you can do some research yourself. It is simply a fact of how history developed.

It was obvious that traditional native culture was not going to work in Canada. We are not talking about the culture of dressing in masks and native clothing or native dancing. That is not the problem. The problem was natives believed in only working when they needed to. They did not work an 8 hours day for five days a week on a certain scheduled starting and ending time. They did not use money. That's where the phrase "Indian time" came from. They also wanted the modern conveniences of civilization brought by the Europeans, such as houses, appliances, and various other conveniences. That requires a person to work in a regular job and earn money. Who was going to pay for or provide all these things? Also, if they could not read and write, they could not function in modern civilization. There were only three choices. 1. Leave them on their reserves to try to live the way they always did. 2. Totally support them with government funding and grants. or 3. Bring them to residential schools and educate them so they could function in modern society. Number 1. and 2. were not viable. Number 1. was not very practical because their traditional ways of supporting themselves was disappearing and they could not afford to buy homes, and all the conveniences that white man had. White man's civilization worked on the principle of work to earn money. That was not the principle of native culture. The government had to change them to the system of work for a living to support themselves and use money. These things were alien to native culture. Number 2 was not acceptable to the government and taxpayers because of the huge cost of supporting every native in the country forever. That leaves only one alternative. To educate them so they could support themselves in society, the same as non-natives did. They would have to learn to be able to get a job and work for a living in the new world. Just leaving them uneducated was not a viable choice.

If anyone watched the Manitoba aboriginal chiefs in full headgear on CBC this morning on the steps of the Manitoba legislature, they will know what I am talking about. They sound like they have tremendous hate for white man and want to see Canada become decolonized. They sound like they are living around about 200 years ago. Right out of past. The way they talk, there is no rational discussion with them possible. They demand Premier Pallister and his aboriginal affairs minister resign. They forget or ignore the fact that the government was elected by the people to govern for the whole province, not just a tiny minority of radicals. They admit native bands have huge problems related to alcohol, drugs, domestic abuse, poverty, etc., but really don't sound like they would be interested in finding any rational solutions. Their ridiculous demands do nothing to help find solutions to the problems they have, but will turn Canadians off. It is a sad situation.

It seems it is OK for the CBC and aboriginals to constantly talk about race but if a white person were to even begin to do that, there would be a torrent of outrage by the media. But everyone accepts it as normal when an aboriginal or black person emphasizes his racial status and how it has negatively affected him in some way. We get a steady diet of this on mainstream media like the CBC. I wonder what this means for the future. Instead of working toward eliminating race as an important factor in life, the mainstream media and many politicians and others seem to be relishing and promoting differences in race as something to be exalted. How about we promote our shared humanity and stop emphasizing our racial differences as the central factor of life?

Check the Republic of Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa history to see how well the white Europeans survived with the African cultures being 98% of the population. It was like trying to mix oil and water. It simply did not work. How liberals think it will work in Canada is a mystery. They somehow think saying the word "multicultural" will mean the future will be bright and everyone will be happy for the European founding people in Canada while they bring the third world into Canada who will eventually take over along with the rise of the aboriginal race. What is even stranger is the liberals love of and trust of the United Nations (UN). If anyone thinks the UN has any love for the Caucasian people, they should think again. The UN has turned around and given Canada UNDRIP, the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People. If you examine UNDRIP and take it literally, it is saying that Canada basically must be handed back to the indigenous people. That would mean the decolonization of Canada. Not sure how that will work. But it gives enormous political power to a handful of people in Canada, the aboriginal red power activists, who are already using UNDRIP for all they can. They have even got the BC NDP government to adopt UNDRIP into law in principle if not in reality. What this means is hard to fathom. Makes one wonder just how closely connected the NDP is to the Marxist U.N. in ideology. What liberals and the woke don't understand is that the U.N. have no love for the Caucasian European founding people in Canada (or anywhere for that matter). The U.N. is controlled by mainly Marxists and dictators from the third world. Yet Canada blindly trusts them and follows along with whatever they wish. The W.H.O which is an arm of the U.N. is run by a former Marxist revolutionary from Ethiopia. Yet Canada cow tows to the W.H.O. and follows it like an obedient child.

It's obvious that the Liberals with Minister Guibault want to control all speech on the internet with C10 and C36. If these don't pass the bills in the current Parliamentary session, you can be sure the bills will be forced through in the next. This is a mark of a very authoritarian, top-down, controlling government. They want to control what you say and how you think. What makes them think their ideology and way of thinking is superior to everyone else in the world and worse that their way of thinking should be imposed on everyone? Isn't that what the Communists and Fascists in the world thought?

Here is an interesting article on how authoritarianism has been advanced in the world by the pandemic. Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic (msn.com) This would be another reason why the Coronavirus could have been deliberately released. Authoritarian regimes like the Communist countries want the rest of the world to reject democracy and liberalism and become authoritarian like themselves.

Well, when the people have only one of two parties to vote for and there are many things in political party's agenda that people did not actually vote for, the people don't have much choice. You use the term "elected" very loosely as if the people chose everything a government or elected person does.

I can tell you in the area I live, if you do not drive above the speed limit on certain main roads, you actually will face angry people behind you. I face this all the time because I try to drive at the speed limit. Some are on the verge of road rage. I don't think there is anyone in authority one can speak to about this that would listen or care. We have become a lawless society.

Communists kill their opponents in Communist countries or when they have revolutions simply because their opponents do not agree with them. Castro did that in Cuba. Mao did that in China. Stalin did that in Russia. Many people persecute and kill Christians around the world simply because of hate or their religion teaches them to hate and kill people who disagree with them. In many countries in the world, it is a dangerous thing to be converted to Christ and one is not allowed to preach or proselytize others. Pakistan, Iran, and many other countries are examples of dangerous places where there are laws that carry the death penalty. Canada and America is are still relatively free, but Canada is drifting toward authoritarianism.

In case someone doesn't know what Communism means, this describes it quite well.

Thousands of people in Cuba are protesting in the streets of Cuba about poverty. Yet the Trudeau government will not stand with our key ally, the U.S. government and speak clearly against the Communist government in Cuba and defend the human rights of the Cuban people. This is very tragic. There is a similarity with the Trudeau government's refusal to condemn the Chinese Communist genocide of Uyghurs. Why is the Trudeau government so sympathetic to Communist governments and opposed to defending human rights in the world? This is a sign of Marxism in Canada.

The European founding people in Canada are heading for near extinction while the third world immigrants and aboriginal population is increasing at a comparatively high rate. This is a demographic fact. The Caucasian race in Canada is not reproducing at the minimum of 2.1 children per family, the minimum for a race to survive. This will please all the woke, liberal and left people who believe white supremacy is a fact and believe the European founding people should be punished for colonialism. Eliminating the Caucasian race is also helped by medical assistance in dying and abortion on demand, which kills about 100,000 babies per year. Caucasian women also are putting off having children until an older age which also contributes to a lower number of children per family. Of course the government and activists approving of and encouraging LGBTQ lifestyles adds to the falling birth rate. These factors are all part of the freedom to do your own thing in a liberal society.

We will never hear or read the true stories of the 100 or 150 years of residential schools because that history has been hijacked by the radical red power activists and their supporters, many of whom are politicians, some time ago. Senator Lynn Beyak tried to question their narrative which came from the so-called Truth and Reconciliation committee of the Senate, but was shot down. The residential school policy of forcefully removing aboriginal kids from their homes was a mistake. But not everyone working in residential schools were criminals or abusers I am sure. There were likely many normal people who sincerely tried to do a good job. All that has been undercut by the abusers and the forced removal of children from their homes. In the TRC hearings only the worst accounts over a 130 year history were allowed. The bad things that went on (cases of sexual / physical abuse) have been exploited to the extreme to discredit the whole of white man's society and government by the activists. Yet it is known many natives died from diseases. A large number died from tuberculosis (TB). Unfortunately, Europeans did inadvertently bring diseases to north America and natives had little or no immunity. That is one reason many died. They also had very poor hygiene and a lack of sanitation. This contributed to the spread of disease and death. It is unfortunate disease was spread from Europe to natives in north America but mankind has always migrated and there have always been diseases around. Also, little was known about diseases in the earlier period. A large portion of Europe died from the black plague in the middle ages. I think there are reports that was carried from the Orient. That is part of the history of mankind. We can't change it. Now the activists have developed their propaganda tools and the unmarked graves have become the latest tool in their arsenal against colonization and white supremacy. Trudeau has described Canada as a country of systemic racism, but will not call the burning down of churches a hate crime. What would he call it if it were mosques that were vandalized or burned down? Of course it would be a hate crime. The unmarked graves are portrayed as proof of genocide without a shred of evidence. It is all about increasing their power for land claims, compensation for all kinds of things and reparations for white man coming to north America.

You of course would believe the red power activists and their non-native woke supporters. You will likely never know the details about these so-called unmarked graves because that is not what the red power activists and woke people want. Many probably had wooden markers or crosses that just rotted away.

Trudeau's borg only allow questions from approved mainstream media that are under the control of the Liberal party. Every public appearance is very tightly controlled. This is not democracy but it is Marxism.

The whole man-made climate change argument originates with the U.N. which makes it purely a political operation. Since they frequently lied, you need to give your head a shake.

The media and red power activists (aboriginal and white Caucasian) are generally not telling the truth today about colonization. They only talk about the bad things that happened and nothing about the good the white man brought to natives. The history of Canada is not perfect but it wasn't all bad. I am reading a history book called Skeena: River of Destiny by RG Large. This is about the history of the first settlers around the mouth of the Skeena River in northwest B.C. and also settling up the river. A lot of it is about the missionaries from a couple of the Protestant church's missionary societies who first settled in that area and up the Skeena River in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s. It tells about their experiences taking the Christian gospel to the natives in the various native villages in that area. Later a missionary - medical doctor decided he wanted to go see what he could do to help. The missionary society did not want to spend the money on a doctor, but he felt he should go anyway and financed it himself and later was able to get some help. But in one year he treated 5,400 people. The natives suffered a unusual amount of diseases and illness because of their lack of hygiene and ways of life. The missionaries led such things as the building of small sawmills in some places and establishing other businesses that brought many benefits to the natives. The sawmills provided lumber that was used to build houses and churches in their villages. This is how things gradually improved and many were converted to Christianity from heathenism. Sadly today the efforts by early settlers and missionaries is scorned as a bad thing that deprived natives of their "culture". This is a false and destructive narrative. They actually did much that improved the lives of the native people on the coast and along the river in northwest B.C. Some natives become ministers themselves and helped with the work.

The idea of white privilege and the victimhood of minorities is pushed by liberals and left as a tool to gain votes. If you are born white in Canada you are automatically a suspect.

Depends what stuff you are referring to. We know there is such a thing as gravity, heat, radiation, microwaves, radio waves, etc. although we cannot see them. They have proven they exist even though we might not be able to explain them in absolute terms. Science can only go so far and a lot of science is theoretical. Scientists cannot actually see sub atomic particles, but have given them names and described how they operate. I believe they say particles are basic energy (protons, electrons, neutrons) but they described only in theoretical terms. They don't really know what this energy is. It is all described in a theoretical manner. Mathematics can even put numbers to it and describe things mathematically, but still it is not something we can see or describe in human terms that clearly explain it. Nobody has seen energy, gravity, etc. and knows exactly what they are. But I believe they exist. Gravity is a tough one. Nobody can see it. Nobody really knows what gravity is and what makes it operate even through the vast distances of outer space. What is it that holds the moon in it's place as it circles the earth? What holds the earth in it's place as it circles the sun? Yet we have given these phenomena names and know there is something there we call gravity. Same as God. God exists and the evidence is all around us in the creation and beauty of the universe. Scientists who claim to be atheists are really irrational if you look closely. Where did all these sub atomic particles, radiation, gravity come from if not by God? Of course they would have to have a designer and creator. Since they exist, someone (a rational being we call God) had to have designed these things and how they operate and bring them into existence from nothing. Some things we accept on faith but it is not a blind faith. It is based on reason or rational thinking. Things do not create themselves out of nothing.

I never said there was no climate change. Why do you assume I said that? Climate change is real, but it is not caused by man. If you want to know what causes it, Google and find the right websites. But the U.N. predictions about the effects of climate change have been false. I don't swallow the U.N. claims about man-made climate change. They are proven to be untrustworthy.

An article says "In 1989 the UN said, “Entire nations will be wiped out by the year 2000 if sea level rises are not stopped.” Did this happen? No! Tuvalu, a Pacific Ocean nation of atoll islands, is a favourite poster child for this claim. However, Tuvalu has increased 3% in land area over the last 40 years." the statement comes from an article on climate change at the website creation.com A different source says "United Nations “Climate Refugees” In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that imminent sea-level rises, increased hurricanes, and desertification caused by “man-made global warming” would lead to massive population disruptions. In a handy map, the organization highlighted areas that were supposed to be particularly vulnerable in terms of producing “climate refugees.” Especially at risk were regions such as the Caribbean and low-lying Pacific islands, along with coastal areas. The 2005 UNEP predictions claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be frantically fleeing from those regions of the globe. However, not only did the areas in question fail to produce a single “climate refugee,” by 2010, population levels for those regions were actually still soaring. In many cases, the areas that were supposed to be producing waves of “climate refugees” and becoming uninhabitable turned out to be some of the fastest-growing places on Earth." Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry - The New American Since there are various websites that show predictions by the U.N. and other organizations were false, how do you deal with it? Since the U.N. is the central and biggest proponent of man-made climate change and is religiously followed by our Liberal and NDP government as the last word on the subject, how do they reconcile the big lies from the U.N. in the past with their claims today? Or do you cherry pick which claims you will believe based on whether the Liberals support it or not? Or do you look at the hot weather lately and say yea it must be man-made?

You are correct. Nobody gets into any high position in the federal government unless they can speak English and French, which means people from Quebec or French speaking enclaves in N.B. or Ontario get those choice jobs. Also, the equalization gravy train mainly flows toward Quebec which means they receive subsidized government services that the rest of Canada does not receive.

Obviously you don't listen to facts. The fact is the UN made ridiculous predictions before that have proven false. OK so anything they say you believe. We are on two different schools of thought. You accept fake claims. I accept scientific facts if it can be proven, not false claims by people that have no facts or science to back it up and have proven to be liars in the past.