$90B Landclaim to huge section of Ontario.

[alfoldivandor]

Do you find a solution , solution can be find ..?

I spent ten years living on or next to them.

[Snowwalker]

Do you find a solution , solution can be find ..?

Attitude change, integration into main stream society.

By the way my sister and both her kids have status cards.

[canadaman30]

Do you find a solution , solution can be find ..?

Yes the solution is get a job and buy what you want. Why's is that concept so hard to understand? If they are not succeeding living tax free, how do you think everybody else in this country is able to succeed?.
I worked with a FN for years and he left the reserve when he was young and promised himself to never return to that life. I don't ever recall him claiming he had to escape from the reserve...lol

[bdog]

They do pay taxes to the province they live in, not federal tax...

[trimmer21]

I was taken from my family when I was seven, and sent to boarding school. Do you want to talk about it? Maybe you would like to talk about a Catholic nun that took too great of an interest in making sure the dirty little Indian boys washed their parts..

How about how families would send money for the children, but it always ended up in the office "for safe keeping". So safe it never was seen again by the kids.

Without doubt,that will go down in the annals of Canadian history as the greatest travesty ever perpetrated on people. Had the religious "authorities" that did that still been alive,no doubt they would have been charged and tossed in jail and the key thrown away. Official apologies have been communicated by every politician under the sun and billions of dollars in reparations made. It will never "make things right",but,it's really all modern society can do (besides ensuring it never happens,again). For many years,now,The UN has censured Canada for human rights violations regarding First Nations and failure to address the "aparthied" policies of The Indian Act. Canadian foreign affairs delegates have a hell of a lot of nerve lecturing other governments on their human rights records when we can't clean up our mess,first,and have been publicly called out on it as soon as they open their traps rendering them functionally impotent,yet,no government seems to be able to "find a pair",repeal The Act and trash the reserve system which clearly isn't working.

[Species8472]

Had the religious "authorities" that did that still been alive,no doubt they would have been charged and tossed in jail and the key thrown away.

Sad to say not the case. Many schools were open well into the 1980s and the last were not closed down until 1990s. Lots of the people involved in running those schools are still alive.

Complex issue is an understatement and no way this will be resolved anytime soon and not before Trudeau is long gone from office i.e. his ability to interfere in major settlements will be minimal. Either way the 90B is like the ask at the start of any lawsuit - ridiculous. On another note I don't believe this has anything to do with the residential school program but is strictly directed at not getting what they were promised in the original treaty agreement(s). The actual settlement when it comes will be for far less and guaranteed to enrich the pockets of many lawyers on both sides. When the dust settles there will always be people on both sides saying that they got screwed.