Missed opportunity, but not the last
The First Nations University of Canada appears doomed, but the efforts to advance first nations postsecondary education must continue...
- Joseph Quesnel: Some reserves can't be fixed
- If our political leaders were to suggest that a certain demographic group of Canadians be placed “out of the way,” hundreds of kilometers from the educational and career opportunities that the rest of us take for granted, chances are that most of us would be scandalized. Yet many Canadian aboriginals have been victimized by just such a government policy. Which is why it’s time that indigenous leaders and Ottawa had an honest debate about the future of some native reserves. The Canadian public was scandalized recently by events at Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba. An 11-year-old boy with no supervision died in a house fire while under the ostensible “care” of the aboriginal-run Awasis Child and Family Services agency. It was 80 hours before this agency discovered the boy was dead. Meanwhile, the band’s own fire department could not be reached during the emergency.
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