Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative

[hiti]

Personal project: Giving kids a head for business

ROY MacGREGOR

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

July 27, 2007 at 7:13 PM EDT

With the native presence in Canadian law schools growing steadily, Paul Martin's personally financed Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative has quite a different goal: to encourage more young natives to study business.

“Knowledge of economics is very slight,” Mr. Martin says of the aboriginal community.

Obviously lawyers are needed, he notes, but so, too, are accountants and economists and entrepreneurs.

“If you've lived in a fly-in community all your life,” he asks, “what do you know about the modern economy?

“Hell, I grew up in Windsor – and I knew nothing.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...8/BNStory/Front

Soon we will again have the government that Canadians deserve and the Kelowna Accord will go ahead. Plus the deal for cities and the day care agreements with the provinces. And once again women equality be not be wiped off the government web site, literacy funding will again appear, personal income taxes will again be lowered, personal exemptions will again be raised and seniors will no longer lose their retirement savings to a Flim Flam finance minister.

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[g_bambino]

...the government that Canadians deserve...

Ah, the fascism that taints the Liberals so. Liberal party to Canadians: you deserve our governance. Don't agree? Well, you're obviously not a real Canadian. And probably a racist, sexist, bigot to boot.

[gc1765]

There is another good article Here .

I applaud his efforts, especially considering that he is retiring from politics and thus is not doing this for "political reasons". I'm sure he could make a lot more money if he went back into business.

[Posit]

Ah, the fascism.....

Sorry dude but fascism is extreme conservatism and a direction where many CPC members would like the party to go.

[jefferiah]

Ah, the fascism.....

Sorry dude but fascism is extreme conservatism and a direction where many CPC members would like the party to go.

Start at any point on the globe. You go far left, I go far right. What will eventually happen?

(Note: We can use cars and planes and boats and even argos.)

Edited July 31, 2007 by jefferiah

[jefferiah]

Raise your left arm and look at yourself in the mirror.

Pull a pendulum to the left and you create the momentum for it to swing right.

[g_bambino]

Ah, the fascism.....

Sorry dude but fascism is extreme conservatism and a direction where many CPC members would like the party to go.

Hence, perhaps, the irony that the Liberal party styles itself as, well, liberal.