Supreme Court Of Canada: Dudley George

Indian Magna Carta Dept: Click on a moment of hope the Supreme Court of Canada and the Delgamuukw ruling, an Indian Magna Carta still ignored by governments. Click. The armed rebellion at Gustafsen Lake. Click. The uprising at Oka. And so it goes, back through increasingly dusty files, modern misery fading to earlier overt racism and passive despair, according to Globe and Mail. Our governments celebrate and finance the reserve system, that incubator of apartheid, and virtually ignore the 50 per cent of status Indians who have escaped and gone to town, to a statistically much better life. Even that is tough an immigrant off the boat from Bangladesh receives incomparably better settlement services than does an Indian migrant from northern Saskatchewan to Regina and click. Davis Inlet the above plus gas-sniffing children and hundreds of millions wasted on a futile move from nowhere to nowhere. Click. The riot and killing of Dudley George at Ipperwash. Click. The Burnt Church crisis. This is about Indians. I use the hard word found in our Constitution because that is the law. The warm and fuzzy, vaguely deferential aboriginal I leave to those who are content to feel good. Indian forces us to confront the fact that we continue to impose and finance a system wherein, to their great loss and the rest of our shame, about 2 per cent of Canadians are born with a big red I on their foreheads and a new number in the big book of status in Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.