“This may be because Canadians have been accustomed to democratic government for all of the 147 years since Confederation, know their rights, and defend them energetically against abuse. It’s downright silly to think they would just turn a blind eye to a rogue police force that started hauling away the neighbours.” Kelly McParland: Hold the […]
Category: Aboriginal Canadians
“All of which raises an interesting question. If we are agreed to constitutionally protect the property rights of some Canadians, why do we shrink from doing the same for others? Recall that the same Constitution that entrenched aboriginal rights, from which we now see derived aboriginal title, declined to protect the right to own property […]
At the 2012 Liberal Biennial Convention, a controversial motion came to the floor. It argued that Canada should be a republic and I found myself offended. I was not sure why and I mentioned this troubling state of mind to a friend. At that point, I found out that that same friend was a republican […]
“Our whole approach as a political party was to talk not so much negatively, but we wanted to talk about the future of the province and we wanted to talk positively.” Peter Lougheed (July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012); former Premier of Alberta (1971 to 1985) Since 2006, the Liberal Party of Canada has […]
“The truth is that neither Canadian political leaders nor Canadians themselves have the stomach for an honest conversation about the disgrace that is the state of too many First Nations, the grotesque and bewildering array of rules which govern the federal-aboriginal relationship and the paternalistic and ultimately poisonous nature of that relationship in the first […]
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