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Here’s the direct link to the Town Crier article….http://www.mytowncrier.ca/we-need-to-become-ignorant-no-more.html

As Carolyn mentioned, it was great to be able to participate in numerous sessions offered by LPC(O) during the weekend retreat in peacefull surroundings of the Muskoka resort (unfortunately it wasn’t the one where G8 Leaders met couple of years ago :-). It’s clear to me that LPC(O) is trying to provide the best possible support to EDA’s…[En afficher davantage]

Carolyn:

Education and jobs are probably the 2 most difficult issues to solve for the FNs in remote areas.

Engineers can give them clean water, proper sewers, good roads and warm houses in remote areas but education and jobs are more complex.

Good schools require good teachers who will stay in the community for more than 2 years. And they must…[En afficher davantage]

Carolyn:
Thanks for the links. I was impressed with the amount of work that went into the Kelowna accord.

One thing that surprises me is “Idle No More” was apparently started by concerns with C-45 and C-28 removing environmental regulations for lakes and streams, yet there is very little mention of the Environment in the Kelowna Accord. …[En afficher davantage]

Thank you Carolyn for raising the quality of discussion of the subject. The contemporary fashion is to use the gutter a the primary source of fact and principles in describing Aboriginal status, goals and aspirations. Examining Sec. 35 and the treaties (my universe has a perspective on Treaties 7 & 8) who would have thought an adversarial…[En afficher davantage]

I did not hear one of the Leadership candidates tell us that there is no quick fix for the Aboriginal problem. In my opinion the fix will take the better part of a generation. From my limited contact, I would suggest fluency in English or French as a second language is one of the major drawbacks for training for better jobs particularly in remote…[En afficher davantage]

Carolyn:
We can talk about schools not built and students not graduated but it seems to me that the elephant in the room is unfavourable deals with the FNs on resource development.

It would seem that if Attiwapiskat had signed a fair deal with DeBeers that they would have had all the money they needed to build better schools.

I realize that this…[En afficher davantage]

Carolyn,
It’s so nice to see a member of our caucus posting on liberal.ca. Knowing that you are reading our posts and taking part in the ongoing discussions (as you probable have seen there is a number of threads related to your position as Aboriginals Issues Critic) makes me very happy. Thank you very much for joining us.
I wish that every riding…[En afficher davantage]

Hi Carolyn:

Thanks for your comment. It would be interesting to look at the history of the Impact-Benefit contract that DeBeers developed with Attawapiskat.

I think Attiwapiskat gets about $2 million per year in direct financial support from DeBeers. But I also understand that DeBeers has awarded $325 million in contracts to soley owned or…[En afficher davantage]

Thank you Carolyn. This commitment needs to be Liberal policy. The history of treaty making and breaking implicates all of us, Liberals and Tories alike. We need to make a principled, honest, responsible stand now. I am not sure that any other party is capable of making the ethical actions necessary, Paul Martin demonstrated his ability and…[En afficher davantage]

” We have to redouble our efforts in Aboriginal education for non-aboriginal Canadians”

While I was in school learning Canadian History, the only time that Native contributions came up was part of a war of 1812 discussions. I was told that 6 miles of both sides of the Grande River was transferred to the Six Nations.

Knowing I was sitting in…[En afficher davantage]

Great points,if we follow good results,but in politics these are
all dreams which never happen

What is discouraging about this statement, is the public ( at least this citizen) assumes this as the base line for our political representatives,all party actions , members, public involvement.
We are looking for better- honesty, high standards, vision and fore site for all, instead we are struggling to get to the base line, described here. With…[En afficher davantage]

Carolyn, I have to admit, that I was a little bit discouraged reading you post. You titled it “Enhancing democracy”; however all the points you made are basic principles of a democratic process. It is sad that we have to “rediscover” them at the stage when our existance as a party is at stake. It shows how far we deviated from the basic,…[En afficher davantage]

Perhaps this document needs some more “distilling”. To be honest, I‘m really not sure who the intended audience is or what its intended purpose is.

It appears to be trying to address the basic moral and ethical behaviour expected of elected officials (“Moral principles: The electorate must know what our values are with respect to the issues…”), …[En afficher davantage]

There is a seperation of reality and nice to haves here. You need to look at politics and how it is fought (not played). The Harperites would love us to die by these guidelines, and die we would.

Politics is a dirty, festering mess, as the struggle for power has alway been. It will alway be that way, and the Harperites have brough it to a…[En afficher davantage]

Wow. And this is why we need to change our voting system to allow more women into the arena. Because these are all just common sense kind of things, along with integrity. And as the comments sure show, common sense and integrity aren’t a match for “the way it really is” like as if it has to stay that way!

If you boys want to duke it…[En afficher davantage]

Let’s start by ensuring First Nations communities have the infrastructure needed for a decent standard of living (clean water, medical care, and well-built housing, for example). Once these communities are doing more than just surviving, then we can take a better look at things like the UN Declaration and what land claims are appropriate.

I have a general question about the Aboriginial Affairs & Northern Development portfolio. What constitutes “Northern”? Typically, when I hear the federal government (not just the current Conservative government) talking about “Northern Development” they are referring to the territories. What about Northern Ontario and the northern areas of the…[En afficher davantage]

What matters to me is that the ecology of the North, already much changed, be allowed to develop on its own for a while (to determine how the Arctic as a “living environment” will untimately respond to the current problems in effect there.) How long we’d hold off on human development (with certain exceptions – see below) would depend on what…[En afficher davantage]

One thing that I came to see last moth is that my reservation in Golden Lako, On is running out of room. Since I was small, every year when I went up there, there was a nice scenic trail to walk, but now it is all housing and was told by several people that it takes a while to get a lot as space is limited. I understand this issue is not as…[En afficher davantage]

Mutual respect must be the foundation of the relationship between Canada and First Nations, Inuit and Métis. 100% access to safe drinking water for 100% of First Nations on reserve – the only standard we expect for all other Canadians – cannot just be an ideal. We need a plan – what, by when and how?

P.S. Don’t forgot to include the hashtag [En afficher davantage]

Il faudra que nous acceptions l’idée de changer complètement notre approche auprès des peuples autochtones. Il faut d’une part cesser de traiter les situations à la pièce et uniquement à la suite d’un affrontement.
La Cour Suprême a reconnu aux peuples autochtones in titre aborigène sur les terres non cédées. Jusqu’à présent, nous avons fermé…[En afficher davantage]