It seems the natives haven't got much else to do but wander around the country looking to disturb the progress of the working people.
A developer bought land in Hagersville, Ontario to build townhouses but natives quickly occupied the land as one they say they have a claim to. Work was shut down and a developer who thought he'd legally bought the property is now sitting in a limbo created by the Canadian government.
I wonder how many Canadians feel as I do that we have no laws protecting us anymore. Who knows, maybe the home you've lived in for 50 years is sitting on land that the natives will one day decide is theirs. You'll pay property taxes every year you live in your house but, if a native decides it's theirs, not a single level of Canadian government will protect your rights.
I don't want to hear about the government speeding up settlement of native land claims anymore. What I want to hear is that our government, the one our taxes pay for, is going to stop allowing natives to break the laws of the land.
When anyone else feels they have a property claim, they hire a lawyer and sue. There is a trial and the lawsuit is either won or lost. Who ever heard of a trial lasting 200 years? If anything, the natives of 200 years ago had only squatter's rights to the land so why are we in this day and age spending so much time, money, and energy on the native land claims?
It's been evident that we don't know exactly what is involved in the native claims and why natives have been allowed to constantly break the laws without punishment but when will it end? If a decision is made that they won't accept (or their descendents 200 years down the road won't accept) then the sit-ins and disruptions will go on forever unless they are made to abide by the law just as the rest of us are.
It's time the Canadian government took a stand so that the rest of it's citizens can regain assurety that OUR rights will be protected.
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I don't think it is correct to blame the federal government for issues pertaining to the land deeding systems...these are strictly provincial jurisdiction....there is only one place to lay blame when the provincial deeding system is allowed to be disrupted by fraudulent claims and encumberances.
"I want to get rid of the Indian problem. Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed."
Duncan C. Scott, head of Indian Affairs, 1920.
I don't for one second want any culture in Canada eradicated. How boring that would be if we were all the same!!
What I want is for all cultures to live in harmony, learning from each other and sharing their way of life with all of us.
I know I'm not alone in this, and it's unfair to tar us with the same brush you'd use on Duncan C. Scott.
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