Canadian aboriginal leaders have for decades flown all over the globe eagerly denouncing this country’s human rights record against them.
What none has ever mentioned (at least none that I know of) is that aboriginal governments are themselves exempt from Canada’s most fundamental human rights laws.
The very rights violations they accuse non-native governments of, their own governments are unaccountable for.
Thanks to a “temporary” clause in the 1977 Canada Human Rights Act (CHRA), charges of bigotry, discrimination and harassment of the kind frequently levelled against non-aboriginal society cannot be brought against native councils and organizations.
After three decades of being shielded against the provisions of the CHRA, it is past time aboriginal governments were brought under the act’s mandate.
Equality cuts both ways.
Abe Lincoln once said that “he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.” It works the same for aboriginals and human rights. The very rights aboriginals insist they be granted they must themselves be prepared to grant their own people — and be held accountable when they do not.
Not according to the opposition. Here’s a quote from Anita Neville, the Liberal aboriginal affairs critic that’s deserving of some sort of award;
“Human rights rammed down a community’s throats are not human rights,”
Since when, exactly?
“Canadian aboriginals lived in peace and harmony with nature and each other prior to the coming of the white man. Nature provided for all their wants and needs”
BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA EWWW HOOO Please My sides hurt ….no more 🙂
Is there a 24/7 Disney Channel somewhere that is churning out these freaks?
Yes, WLM. It is called CBC Newsworld.
We have too much vacant land in this country – owned by native Indians and a foreign Queen – on paper.
The western native tribes of Canada and the USA did not own land, this concept was introduced by freedom loving people who wanted to be their own boss.
Living a nomadic hand to mouth lifestyle is not freedom – it is existence in the most basic form. In Canada, the monarchy of the UK set up a ‘hothouse’ (Indian Reservations) for the crippling of the country to keep the $$ tied up in the ‘Old Country’ (GB). The men and women who came to Canada to set up an infrastructure based on individual freedoms and rights was a slap in the face to the bigshots in the Old countries who relied on the ‘wage slave’ to keep them in business; when it worked! The Monty Python quotes posted by Python Paul, is most appropriate for the situation on Indian Reservations. The ‘Queens and Kings’ saddled the pioneers with a ‘guilt culture’ to plague the success of former surfs from Europe. The pioneers in Canada were people who knew what it was like to be someone else’s property so they were sympathetic to the plight of the native Indians when they were pushed around by the soldiers of the Queen. The Queen/King could not push them around once they became landowners and citizens but the defeated native people were at the mercy of the ‘crown’ by virtue of their birth.
We, as a people, have moved into beehive cells in cities and most of us are not landowners so we have lost the taste for freedom. We are too lazy to live on our own property and stand up to the ‘crown’ when the ‘crown’ steals our individual rights.
The people who ‘allowed’ the set up of a reserve system cannot be blamed because the thought that reserves would guarantee a home for the nomads of this vast land. The Indian people that live on Reservations today are not gathering berries and hunting buffalo; they are wards of the state. Doing nothing for a living is not a dignified way to live. The Indian people have outlasted the reserve system – they have been treated as inferiors for 300 years – it is time to put the reserve system out of business.
Almost all Native Indian people speak English or French, they are Canadians, they are literate. Most of the Native Indian people that I know are several jumps ahead of the immigrants flooding into Canada from foreign countries. The new immigrants have no sympathy for the ‘loss of freedom’ that our pioneers had – the reserve system is dead. Native Indian people will be pushed out of the future if they do not stop playing the ‘victim’ card; it will not work when the people of the country do not feel any guilt for a loss of freedom (because the present batch of people on reserves never were free, they have been wards of the state all their lives). I believe that the unoccupied land on reserves should be put up for sale for all citizens to be given an opportunity to be landowners. The ownership of all Crown/Reservation land should be up for grabs by people who are not afraid to be their own boss and run their own lives. The mice in the cities might surprise themselves when they run their own lives on their own property. It would certainly shake up the support for the Dippers and the Liberanos.
“Human rights rammed down a community’s throats are not human rights”
Er… you mean, like, SSM & other such “human rights”?
Interesting position, coming from a liberal.
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