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I do not think it would be Hill's lot or any others come to that. Such an action would be like shooting yourself in the foot. Official documents etc would be lost. Time consuming reparations that neither f/ns nor government could afford. At most, a little insurance money could be hoped for ! JKing!! But it seems absurd to acuse them while they are negotiating land tracks.

North Americans -perhaps more so in Canada have accepted all forms of Christian religion without much ado. European countries continually opposed it for centuries (albeit, not sucessfully an suffered much cruelty). However, in general they did see and understand religion as a state mechanism of the ruling landed class to oppress the majority whom actually were (and many still are) clan based and pagan. We also need only read the philosophy of the 'enlightenment' period in history years later from early fifteenth century (let alone the unwritten history of and by the people) to realise this. Yes, 'rational thought' was advocated by philosophers as a 'means' a 'tool' for freeing oneself from religion, but it was not to be construed as a final 'cure' , on the contrary a beginning toward the 'activity' of freedom. Such was to be used by the people undergoing oppression via the inherent fatalism in ALL Christian/ Catholic doctrine. It was thought by the philosophers that only rationality could break through the drowsing effects of fatalism. Rather, a calling to CONSCIOUSNESS if you WILL. However today, many whom claim not to be christian still hold onto its 'value system' . It is more rampantly popular today than what it was eons ago from conquest to this colonial structure to our current state of agency. Agency and identity notions resign themselves to cloaked hierarchies of consensual moral and stretched standards of imperial expressions. The thinking behind ethics, morality and principles are constantly framed within binary opposisitions as they were centuries ago. Even when the little bloke in the crib is not mentioned this antiquated way of thinking dominates the political field and the way people/individuals understand themselves today. Identity always has to therefore seek acceptable archaic forms of justification before real human expressions of self can 'ever' be discussed or deeply focused upon. It would seem to me that North American thinking in the main is subject to a kind of melancholia imposed by its overbearing conquerers. The latter, ironically seem to have laid it to the wayside. Of course, they have had hundreds of years opposing it and its inevitable and cloaked brutality in turn to inflict it upon others. Charity is a mechanism of control. It always has been. It earns money for big business, global relations in the world system of development and under development (third world maintained as third world to feed the first) with the back up of many a full on Christian in the form of aid and 'immunity'. It is this very aid that feeds the paternalism of inequality, marginalisation, poverty and yes war. More than ever charitable organisations have huge import into politics. Both voting and non voting falls prey to right wing politics on the global scale of things. Importantly, its own ethics has seaped through the classes in canada. The politics from an alleged left to the right is all paternalistic while simultaneously being sadled with its own brand of oppositional discourse or of 'turning the other cheek'. Perhaps it is time for us to transcend the loop and not put faith in politicians or religion. A faith based epistemology is always an antithesis. It may 'appear' to merge as synthesis but it does not.