Monday, November 21, 2011

Using democracy to kill yourself

One of the First Nations reservations not too far from here recently held a referendum on whether to disband their police force.

Reservations are a blight on our history and shame the nation. From Cook to Cartier to Cabot to the Conservative Party strutting around on the world stage today the history of Canada is one never-ending tragedy for our First Nations.

This is just another footnote. Many reserves have addiction rates and unemployment rates very close to a statistically impossible 100%. The reasons for that go back five hundred years. Things won't be made right by apologizing for residential schools and holding "truth and reconciliation" festivals.

When you've had everything taken away from you and what's left of your culture survives only at the whim of those who took it, it's no wonder bootlegging and drug-dealing are two of the most viable roads to financial success available to young natives.

A majority of the voters in the referendum decided that the police force should go.

The bootleggers and drug dealers can now operate with impunity.

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