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Then you are delusional. Because all Canadians are by their nature, NOT equal. Those with disabilities are not legislated into equality. Gays and Lesbians and Transgendered people are not heterosexual and by their nature have other needs. Old people are not youths and children are not adults. French speaking people are not y their nature required to learn English. The best we can do in a civil society is to guarantee "reasonable accommodation" and equity. First Nations funding is inequitable. And if it is our desire to change the status quo we have to change that inequity FIRST before we can complain about anything else. While the Charter provides that we are all "equal before and under the law" in practicality that isn't true either since the rich can afford lawyers that are not otherwise available to poorer people. Therefore if we want a just soceity we have to correct the inequity first.

Rule of law is determined according to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Aboriginal people are on solid legal ground in asserting Aboriginal title and Aboriginal rights. Canadians are pawns in a game where governments make up reality according to their own agendas.

Their rights exceed our own. And Quebec has different rights that are being accommodated under the laws of Canada. There isn't a thing we can do about it except get used to it because the Supreme Court is strengthening those rights with almost every ruling.

OUR subsidies and corporate welfare is not sustainable. However First Nations have the law on their side. We don't. So if you raise a weapon anywhere in Canada expect the full extent of the law to come down on you. You might want to study the tactics. Natives have been peacefully starting protests and occupations. It is only when the police of government uses force that the fight back - hard. Most Canadians (including you I suspect) don't have the balls to stand up to them. Certainly the OPP didn't 3 years ago.

Many experts claim it may be inevitable. When negotiation and reconciliation fails, increasing levels of violence and unrest will follow. It doesn't matter whether I support it or not. But we should be doing everything in our power to avoid the consequence of our own inaction and the blatant racism demonstrate here and elsewhere.

Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Some say the Surete du Quebec shot their own. Kenneth Deane was likely taken out by the Banditos or Hells Angles both sympathetic to Native causes.

3500 Troops and 150 Surete du Quebec against 25 Mohawk Warriors at Oka. The military has rules. The Warriors do not.

That depends. Corporal LeMay at Oka might be someone to ask....opps! You can't! Someone shot him and no one was ever charged for it.... And there there was Acting Sargent Kenneth Deane who shot Dudley George at Ipperwash. Seems he was mysteriously run off Highway 7 about 6 months after he was convicted. Seems street justices has long tentacles.

Nope. Wrong again. The Mohawk Nation and Six Nations (Mohawks are part of the Six Nations) are still alive and functional. Their claim is not only current, but the Queen recognizes the Mohawks and Six Nations as allies (not citizens). See the post above about her commemoration of 300 years of the Silver Covenant Chain Treaties.....

Three years ago the OPP shut down Canada's busiest highway - the 401 - for 24 hours because 20 Mohawk Warriors from eastern Ontario threatened to shut it down over a land claim that was being ignored. The OPP laid lots of charges but only 1 breach of probation stuck and the offender was released for "time served". Guess who won?

Sure he is. I pointed out weeks ago that he was making up fantasies and trying to pass them off.

YOU aren't "most of Canadians" and aren't qualified to speak on our behalf. So it is just another ignorant comment by a nobody.

You are out of touch with reality. Most of Canada does not have any treaties. We are illegally occupying it.

Don't be stupid. The reason is that legally 3rd party management can only be used if the Band has shown accounting irregularities. Attawapiskat is in good financial accounting based on their numerous audits and their co-manager appointed by the government 8 years ago. Spence is resiting third party management because it will cost them $1300 per day and they will get nothing out of it. They have a funding problem, not management problem.

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Canada's great native uprising How to prevent native uprising

Yet you make another ignorant unqualified statement by a nobody..... There is no corruption. The Band is audited every year and the audits have been posted on line.

The experts making comments on the potential uprising say the exact opposite. Economic disruption and violence would have them screaming at the government, not the natives.

First Nations are under funded. When there isn't enough money for housing or for education, then the problem isn't a management problem it is a funding problem. Across Canada First Nations whom have been put under third party management never get out since the government appointed managers have a worse problem trying to manage under funding. At the end of the day those third party managers cost millions and the Bands get nothing in return.

In legal reality WE don't own the land our houses sit on. All land is tenured to us with a "use permit" called a "deed". However, the Crown holds all rights over the land and with a decision they can expropriate it, mine it or lease it to someone else if they decide it is in the public interest. However, the Crown holds a lease agreement with First Nations call a Treaty which gives us rights to settle upon the land and to develop it for limited purposes but First Nations retain the ownership and other rights. The Supreme Court has held that we must consult with them before we can use or expand our use of their lands. Finally on top of all of that are "Aboriginal rights" which are guaranteed by the Royal Proclamation 1763 entrenched in the Charter that provide that we cannot use or settle upon and "Indian Lands" until the Crown has first obtained a surrender from the First Nation. There are many claims like this all across Canada where we have occupied land that we were not entitled to. In most case parcels of Crown lands are being returned along with huge loss of use payments (in the $10s of millions). The only ones settled so far have been simple claims. The more complex ones will cost us $ billions for loss of use and transfers. At the end of the day we all live on Aboriginal titled land. You can't get away from it no matter how much you want to delude yourself in denial.

Incorrect. Their grievance and claims for the lands have been presented almost every year of the last 200 years.

It is a reality you obviously want to ignore. IN other words as I suspected you are not sincere about settling Aboriginal issues.

That has actually been a real concern over the past months as these kinds of inadequate funding come to light. The Nations Post did a column on our vulnerability since most of the countries transportation networks and infrastructure pass through reserves or First Nation territory and can't be defended. The Winnipeg Free Press also wrote a similar artical as well as Justice LeForme (head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) making statements about aboriginal revolution if issues are not settled. Finally, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples PREDICTED native unrest and economic disruption if issues were not settled favourably. The writing is on the wall.

That could be a solution. We are after all, on their land.

Irrelevant. The treaties and the Royal Proclamation rights are based on nationality (not Canadian) and not race. FYI there are lots of Caucasian and people of colour who are Six Nation members whom have emigrated into the nation over the years of contact, as well as many who have become spouses who are granted status and are entered onto the Band rolls.

Southern Ontario still belongs to Six Nations. It is protected by law and the government has no choice but to deal with it when it comes up in a land claim.