What "official story" are you referring to exactly? How has it been one-sided and white-washed exactly? Feel free to post any articles you've found so that everyone can read and decide for themselves. Until you do, then we're just arguing over nothing. I am asking honestly, but I think it's very important to be precise about the details and more importantly solutions.
We can go after your so-called tax evaders, but who are these people? If you can't define these people or companies in precise terms then you're going after ghosts. "Tax corporations that move all the jobs offshore more than 15%" makes no sense. Maybe you were trying to say that you would tax corporations that move at least 15% of jobs off shore? But then you have to get into some serious debates. Like who decides on the percentage? What countries does it affect? More importantly, how sustainable and practical are those solutions? If you really wan to be "fair" about getting money to the reserves, then you should tax all Canadians. Use a portion of the HST so that it's nearly unavoidable. But then of course, how is that fair for people whose ancestors were not even in Canada at the time or had colonial pasts in their home country?
I would think the goal should be to help the Indigenous on and off reserve to develop educational and job opportunities so they can sustain themselves without having to rely on government subsidies. That does mean involving Indigenous more in modern Canadian life. I know that "involving or "integrating" ware scary words, but some of it must happen. Besides, they already have integrated to modern society to a degree. That also means asking tough questions about the sustainability of the reserve system itself because the cost of food, fuel, etc. are always going to be major constraints.
Addressing these issues are concrete actions. They are hard problems to solve, but we have to solve them first because that affects human life. Renaming things hardly qualifies as action IMO.
Hey just wanted to say I appreciate your responses. Even, if you don’t appreciate mine. And I’m sorry if you didn’t quite follow me. I see the value in what you are saying. And I’m going to skip over some your requests for details or sources. Like you said it’s a waste of time.
I say we let the first people of Canada decide how to go about it all. Wait, they kinda already have said that right? So now we have give them the lead and give them the power to do it their way. Even if we don’t fully agree, or it makes us uncomfortable. They have to be in charge of the final details. Not us, not Justin, not the queen.
I’m not so sure it’s about fairness to others who came after, more so than doing right by our first people, no matter what, no matter the cost. Some of them live in terrible conditions still as you alluded to with the reservation system. That needs to end Immediately. No good reason for them to live worse off than the rest of us. We have the technology, we have the ability to provide a generational change to many. Let’s start with access to safe clean water, equitable food distribution, sustainable housing, on reserve Heath centres, and on reserve education past grade school.
I agree with you calls for concrete measures and more meaningful action. I hope our first people will play a pivotal role in all of that coming to be.
I maintain that many issues can be solved in unison with the right political will. With elections coming up at almost every level I think many politicians will have platforms that will have a greater emphasis on taking detailed actions that benefit our first people.
