3 left in First Nations race
Three candidates are left in the race to become the next national aboriginal leader.
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National chief candidate calls for separation
- Lorne Gunter: The AFN needs fresh thinking
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This week, delegates from around the country are gathered in Calgary to elect a new Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). The winner will replace Phil Fontaine, who is stepping down after a dozen years.
Let’s hope they choose someone with new ideas. Mr. Fontaine’s approach and proposals were all strictly old school.
Whatever the problem facing Canada’s natives, Mr. Fontaine knew only one cause — whites — and only one solution — more taxpayers' money. Thus, he last year extracted an apology for residential schools from the current Tory government, even though the schools did no more harm to aboriginal culture than was done by corruption and mismanagement by band councillors over the years. And in 2005, he managed to negotiate the $5-billion Kelowna accord with the Liberals, the money from which was hailed as a panacea, but which would have disappeared without tangible results — the fate of all such huge giveaways. (When the Conservatives came to power, the accord was shelved.)
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