brucie said... "Our treatment of Aboriginal/First Nations people is deplorable." My son. Where you been ? I beg to differ, at length if you wish. We have paid through the nose to bring these people everything they could ever ask for. Free EVERYTHING, from housing through education through you name it. Just lately, they wanted to share in the fishing and the forestry here in New Brunswick. We bought them boats and we bought them woods harvesting equipment and we bought out existing licenses so they could share in the work. Well, they decided it was their right to fish outside of the season, thereby fucking over the existing fisherman AND the fish stocks. Nearly the same in the forestry. They want $6B in reparations for the woods harvesting carried on in New Brunswick over the past four hundered years - they never cut a stick unless they were cold and, for the most part, they haven't been cold since we've been paying for their heat. "Deplorable" ?. Nay, exemplary. Almost to a fault.

And if you are want to say they owned this land... bullshit. Nobody owns the land. That's one of the first laws of the Native Nations. You can use it, but you can't own it. Same with our laws. If you don't use it, you lose it. Try not paying your taxes and see how long you "own" your land.