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No Government or organization can guarantee 100% no spills or breakage in pipelines. However, the latest designs cover every foot of pipeline and report any problems immediately. The problems that we have experienced in pipeline problems have come from acts of sabotage by so called enviromentalist. Alberta oil from the tar sands has a lower carbon emission discharge then oil from Venuzala which is transported by ship to the USA.The difference in co2 emissions between Alberta tar sands and OPEC is less then 2%. If you look at who is paying for this pipeline from being built , you will find that it is Money supplied by Saudia Arabia and Venuzala. Canada is Ethical oil and Canadians should be backing the Canadian Government instead on daming them.

The Federal Government must sit down with the Natives and negotiate a new Indian Act. The present Act has never been changed in decades and is responsible for many of the on going problems occurring on the reserves. Trudeau attempted to change things in the 70's with the introduction of the white paper. This new act had it been signed would have turned all reserve territory rights and ownership over to the Federal Government. An Indian manitoba legislator named Harper brought it to the attention of the Indian Chiefs and fought against this new act. It was cancelled as Trudeau and Chretain were humiliated in attempting to swindle the reserves from the natives in Canada. At least, the conservative Governments have settled more Land treaties with the Natives then any other preceeding party have done in the history of Canada. The land claim in Haldimand will be settled once the Liberal party is thrown out of Office. The original land claim which has proven to be false was innitiated by a native group who seized the land in an attempt to make a deal with the provincial Government to allow them to build a casino. The Province purchased the land and it remains part of the property of the Government and has not been sol;d or turned over to the Natives. According to the treaty, this portion of land has never been native land given to them. In a court of law, the natives have been informed of this fact.

The problem with permitting outsiders from testifying at these hearings, is that they represent in most cases foreign oil companies such as Citgo [venuzala] and Saudi Arabia oil interest, who want to stop the importing of any oil from Canada to any other Nation. There is really little difference in Carbon emmissions between Canadian oil and other Foreign oil. The percentage of difference is less then 2%. Canada, is permitting everyone to testify to starve off the preception that it is a foregone conclusion. They will however, limit this review to 2 years, unlike previous hearings that took 9 years.

There has always been that the belief that the Anglican and Catholic churches had forcced native children to attend schools. These decisions to set up residential schools were made by the Federal Canadian Government in an effort to educate a people who were not in the position of providing and education to their own. It was a decision made to help a people get off the reserves and into a world where they could earn a living and have a career. Only the Anglican and Catholic Churches had the ability to offer these natives schooling. The Federal Government set up the schools and these churches provided the teachers.The Government made it clear that the native language could not be used at school or on premises. The teachers did what they were requested and taught English as the first language. There were some successes where natives partivularly in Alberta and BC went on to become wealthy businessmen. There were a lot of unsuccessful natives that did not farewell. Some were mistreated and both churches were later sued in copurt and repaid for their treatment. The Anglican Church of Canada declared bankruptcy over the law suits in order to meet the demdas of the court.

It is a grave injustice to believe that any religious churches or Faiths. Religiouis institutions had nothing to do with Natives being forced to attend schools. It was the Federal Government who institututed these school matters. The Government of Canada, believed that by educating the young native population, iot would lead to Natives being able to work and become self sufficient in the world. There were no schools on the reserves st the time. The Anglican and Catholic churches were the only ones that had a schooling proceedures.I agree that, these schools did force the children to learn another language and to forget their native tongue. It was done so that they would conform to society. In a number of cases, it proved benificial as it offered those who wanted to succeed a place where an education was necessary. It is also true that there were a lot of resentment by the natives over their young being forced into residential schools.