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They should just shut it down and move out to get the attention of the locals. Fewer diamonds will push up De Beers' diamond prices, so they win while the local morons get a lesson in Free Markets 101.

An issue not generally realized is that mining has become high-tech with miners needing at least high school graduation and computer literacy. This eliminates most of those on northern reserves leaving only a handful of low-wage jobs for them like cooks and janitors. Northern resource development has not become the job generator for natives that everyone believed it would. But by saying no they are no doubt passing up some royalty payments.

Hey! I LIKE fish soup... :)
(With a fresh loaf of French bread; mmmmm)

Canada is a truly politicaly correct deranged country. Who on Earth gives a foreigner Queen retard, and a bunch of lazy drunk crack-head Indian retards, veto power over Canadian industry. Canada has reached PSR (Peak Socialist Retard).

The real problem is that no one in these communities is under any kind of financial pressure, nor do they have any incentive to earn money. After all, no one can "own" property on a reserve - except for the chiefs, who somehow end up owning everything. This means that most native bands have become a sort of natural resources mafia, which is understandable with developments that abut reserve land, but has come to mean any kind of resource development within 150 miles of a reserve. Band administration can demand extortionate payouts from industry, (DeBeers has sunk literally tens of millions into "community development" in Attawapiskat), and if they don't get what they want, they can simply kill new development without any kind of backlash from their own community. No one actually depends on industry for work, income, or housing. Virtually all natives who do work, work on band administration.

Everyone gets a subsistance income, a shitty house, and a free trip to the great metropolis of Timmins twice a year, regardless of whether they work or not. And if they do work, they still get to live in a shitty house, since they're not allowed to own or develop their own land. All this happens because non-native taxpayers foot the bill, and the chiefs and band council quietly make millions and millions of dollars disappear.

To be fair, no one but DeBeers really cares what happens up in James Bay, but other native bands have had a horribly crippling effect on the economies of many small rural cities and towns, where they have killed, crippled, or otherwise discouraged virtually every attempt at economic development for the better part of a decade.

Unfortunately to make changes takes political will(guts) which no one in the western world EXCEPT Trump has.

Let them eat air.

The only good thing that ever came out of Attiwapiskat is our dog. My girlfriend got him through a rescue organization. He's great! No alcohol or drug problems with him. And you can leave a garbage bag with gasoline in it laying around and he won't even touch it!

Handouts,handouts, a life supply of handouts and they're still living in squalor in God forsaken areas which make it more expensive to send in supplies and services. They do not live off the land, they demand all the same conveniences we have while telling those of us who work, pay taxes to support them they own all the lands. Is there something wrong with this picture? Am I misinformed?

Canada - the most hostile investment environment on earth, period!

A hearty cioppino with a loaf of crusty French bread is my go-to winter dish. Mmmm mmm ! A variety of Fish, crab, shrimp, scallops, and white clams ... yummy

"Canada is very important, as it’s the most stable jurisdiction for diamond miners

Better to have a BLOOD DIAMOND on your sweeties finger ... to make some faux Indian Chief feel powerful.

The idea of dismantling the Indian Act has been floated many times. The Indians wont hear of it, or rather the chiefs wont.

A lot of resource jobs are McJobs. Hire a coupla locals, give them nothing to do. Maybe supply a pickup if there are roads to drive (and hide) but hey they're on the payroll...

Diamonds are sparkly stones with zero value unless they are in a drill bit. De Beers is the equivalent of OPEC. Criminals.

Why are there no canoe sheds?

Sooner or later the government will have to make a decision as to who is running the economic engines of Canada. Right now its activists and that does not bode well in the long run.

When will we stop allowing 3 % of the countries population the right to control the development of natural resources, the building of pipelines and any other project that they feel they can hold to ransom. In real terms their approval is for sale as long as the Chiefs and band councils are appropriately rewarded.

"When will we stop allowing 3 % of the countries population the right to control the development of natural resources,...."

Oh, I dunno.....when the other 97 percent grows balls, maybe?

My ancestors have treasured the magic white stars since the time of the Giant Albino Beaver. Get off my land whitey!