RE:RE:RE:RE:FYI: some comments re: profit/splitTimeBuilder wrote: We maybe wrong in our thinking
BUT firmly believe that the FN's
" think " we are ALL trespassing on their native lands ...
coast to coast to coast . JMO
Well, maybe you're not ALL wrong.
But they
were here before us, with nobody around for millennia.
Do we really think if a guy in a serge coat with brass buttons and epaulettes jumps off a boat, slams a flag in the sand and claims everything as far as the eye can see and beyond, in the name of some distant king/queen/emperor, THAT makes a claim valid?
I am both amused and annoyed at official functions when our politicians stand up and with a poker face acknowledge that they are standing on the traditional lands of this or that FN tribe. I wonder, unless you are prepared to hand over the title deed, what's the point in the farce and the subterfuge?
For centuries we have erected and sustained expensive bureaucracies ...Departments of Indian Affairs, Bureaus of IA, Ministry of IA etc etc with Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Directors, Managers Secretaries and paper pushers galore. What do these good folk do besides being perennially embroiled in legal entanglements. If we abolished these entities, imagine the savings. And imagine if those savings are invested in FN communities, in partnership towards clean water, adequate housing, adequate health care and mental-health care, schools, hospitals, etc etc.
In a lighter vein and purely for your amusement, I am reminded of a time decadeds ago, when there were endless lawsuits ongoing in BC. Some enterprising lawyer made the effort to tabulate the total
acreage in dispute.
It exceeded the land mass of the province.
Cheers