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Not true. Individual states have been legally attacking Tribes over gas and tobacco tax exemptions. That is not adjudicating treaty rights better.

That is a major problem in Canada. Most Canadians Harper was a good guy for offering the apology and think "that should be it!". Canada's liability goes far deeper than that. Still, Americans believe they are immune from that kind of accusation yet drove thousands to their death, confined Indian children to far worse residential schools during the same era and continue to ignore freedoms and rights of many of its people. Who pays? It is an international question.

The Residential School Experience fund pays for the suffering at the schools. It is something like $40k per person plus $10k for every year each individual attended. However, there are about 150,000 people that didn't agree to the settlement and they are pursuing individual and class action lawsuits. And even though the Truth and Reconciliation Commission won't demand names and eye witnesses, there are private investigations going on that are following those leads and the RCMP has already begun laying charges. With convictions, the cost of lawsuits and/or settlements will grow exponentially. What people don't know is that the apology was not voluntary. It was one of the 3 conditions of an out of court settlement in the class action lawsuit against the government by the survivors. The funding and conducting of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as well as the Residential School Experience fund were also parts of that out of court settlement....

From the PM's apology to the survivors of Residential Schools: Prime Minister Harper offers full apology on behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools system

It references genocide, although not directly.

What about military objects that the US claim don't exist? Are they still liable?

Why not protest against those committing "employment fraud"? There is no doubt there are people posting here during working hours whom are defrauding their employers of time? Get that and make it into something....if you are honourable enough....

Yes they should spend it. Canadians - children and adults alike - are in bad need of an education on our history. A celebration of how Canada came into being including the contributions made by Aboriginal people and the Loyalists, should be part of the curriculum in high school. The added bonus to putting up money is that this is a stimulus program. While museums, community groups and reinactment groups will receive funding for specific events, the spin offs will create hundreds of millions in local spending in restaurants, fuel, memorabilia and other tourist money. It is likely to bring many foreigners into otherwise low tourist areas. What most people don't realize is that while the legal creation of Canada may not have begun until 1867, real Canadians existed well back into the 18th century. We had settlers who moved into the wilderness, who lived and worked hand in hand with the native people here learning their ways and often trading with them for goods. All that changed with the Family Compact Movement, who were a group of elite Victorians who attempted to erase history, prohibit contact with Aboriginal people, create laws that stripped settlers and Aboriginal people of their land rights, and generally corrupted government to their own agenda of earning gross profit from the resources. Historians believe the movement disbanded before Confederation but it isn't difficult to see how they were simply absorbed into Canadian politics. The Victorians became the Tories and Sire John A. MacDonald was one of the most corrupt of them all using bribery, murder and abuse of power to advance his agenda. If reconciliation with Aboriginal people is going to take place, we all need to learn and understand the actual history of Canada - and not just some grade 6 text put out by poor researchers. We need to understand that Aboriginal people put as much into the development of this country as any British, French or immigrant did. That their contributions for every war Canada was involved in (and some Canada was not involved in) equalled or outweighed the involvement of other Canadian volunteers. We need to understand that the moneys we owe First Nations - moneys that we hold in trust - come from that history, from their involvement in the war of 1812, to treaties to resource revenues that the Crown convinced them should stay with us for their perpetual care. The War of 1812 was about protecting their land as it was ours, and regardless if we consider 1867 to be our beginning, our roots go back over 3 centuries. So yes the War of 1812 should be celebrated at the expense of government. Only this time make sure some MP from Bracebridge doesn't get a gazebo or other useless diversion of funds skimmed off the top. Although that would be consistent with the history of the Tories.......

They are still minority opinions.

My telling you to shut up is fully compliant with MY right to free speech. You can whine and complain all you want. That is YOUR right to free speech.

I fully support free speech. I have an absolute right to tell an American Woman troll to shut up unless she has proof. Otherwise, she has no argument to make.

I'm not deriding anyone. It was a simple question put to Oleg because he has shown those tendencies in the past. Free speech is a right we all support, right?

Maybe you boyfriend would disagree. Why don't you ask him if he wants to be the husband or the wife and that would straighten it out for you both?

I'm not sure it would be prudent to tie up the courts with employment equity issues, or minority accommodation issues that pop up all the time....

You are so sensitive. Must be gay.

Are you a husband or the wife?

Speaking of trolls....welcome back Oleg. Still not taking your meds I see....

I am aware of that. But in reality "the sky" has no colour. The water particle refraction might be blue ~sometimes~ but the sky itself has no substance. The water refraction could just as easily be red, purple, yellow blackish grey, grey, white or even green depending on the angle of refraction the the spectrum being absorbed.

Considering it is neither, it must be the drugs. In reality the sky has no colour and the colours you think you see are illusions caused by light bouncing off of water particles. Is it LSD you're on? That's American too.....

Wrong. Taxes. Commercial businesses are taxed at a higher rate and having a business in a residential neighbourhood skirts paying those taxes. The rest of your garbage is not worth responding to. You have no clue about planning law.

My dog makes a better argument and he eats his own crap.

Yes and he has you pegged!

Applause?

New game show coming this week... American Itrolls and two contestants are in line for the big prize....LOL

Well let me qualify my earlier statement.... They hate foreigners that don't assimilate into the 'shwa mentality. I mean if they don't sit in their garages and drink beer til 2:00 on a week night they are seen as foreign....