Derek Nepinak comments

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Was listening to Derek Nepinak's comments on power and politics and he said something interesting:

"I believe the solutions will be found internally among our own people, as opposed to among the bureaucracies of Ottawa"

"we got really comfortable receiving government funding.....we're facing the highest levels of poverty we've ever seen"

He also tore up his benefits card - the card that represents the pass to get the most free goodies of any ethnic group on earth. Hmmmmm do they have a leader here with some actual courage?

Now usually whenever a native leader gets talking about something, without fail it is always "we deserve more of your money to complain about you better" or some variant of that. Has Nepinak actually woken up a little here and discovered that free money handouts are themselves the problem? Does he really believe natives should take responsibility for themselves instead of a steady strategy of demanding everyone else make them happy?

If so that's very encouraging, I wonder if this could be the beginning of natives actually addressing their problems. Any native who decides that he doesn't have a right to my tax dollars and should be responsible for his own life, has my respect. Here's to hoping.

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Sounds like he has, do you have a link to the text on that , I'd like to read it ... thanks