Native protesters dig up the road in front of their barricade as violence breaks out between white residents, native protesters and the OPP at the barricade in Caledonia in 2006.
...so hopefully they will not be the lynchpin that drives the discussions and concessions will not be made on anything they are falsely accussed of doing.
There is hope for Canada’s First Nations
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer: Harper’s meetings this week with First Nations leaders have a quiet urgency about them. It has been a long while since there was a First Nations meeting of this importance.
...so hopefully they will not be the lynchpin that drives the discussions and concessions will not be made on anything they are falsely accussed of doing.There is hope for Canada’s First Nations
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer: Harper’s meetings this week with First Nations leaders have a quiet urgency about them. It has been a long while since there was a First Nations meeting of this importance.
John Ivison: Pragmatic PM looks ahead as Chiefs air old grievances
The Crown-First Nations gathering in Ottawa was a classic example of a failure to communicate.
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and National Chief Shawn Atleo recognized the history of Canada’s relations with its First Nations as a register of crimes and misfortunes. Both paid lip-service to the idea of unlocking the potential of aboriginal Canadians.
But they talked past each other when it came to moving forward.
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The Crown-First Nations gathering in Ottawa was a classic example of a failure to communicate.
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and National Chief Shawn Atleo recognized the history of Canada’s relations with its First Nations as a register of crimes and misfortunes. Both paid lip-service to the idea of unlocking the potential of aboriginal Canadians.
But they talked past each other when it came to moving forward.
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Matt Gurney: A native uprising isn’t likely, but it’s possible
Led by a charismatic young leader, small groups of natives strike a series of Canadian military bases and launch terrorist attacks in major Canadian cities. While the numerically tiny and underequipped Canadian Army scrambles to respond, a second wave of attacks by native insurgents bring Canada’s petroleum industry and electrical generation capability to a halt, causing economic disruption and blackouts in the United States. Eventually, the U.S. mounts a major military incursion into Canadian territory to restore order and stabilize their own economy.
That is all confined to fiction — namely, Canadian military expert Douglas Bland’s 2010 novel Uprising. But while the prospect of a native insurgency in Canada admittedly seems a remote threat, it is a real one, and something that Canadian strategic planners, who plan for pretty much every scenario, must consider.
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Led by a charismatic young leader, small groups of natives strike a series of Canadian military bases and launch terrorist attacks in major Canadian cities. While the numerically tiny and underequipped Canadian Army scrambles to respond, a second wave of attacks by native insurgents bring Canada’s petroleum industry and electrical generation capability to a halt, causing economic disruption and blackouts in the United States. Eventually, the U.S. mounts a major military incursion into Canadian territory to restore order and stabilize their own economy.
That is all confined to fiction — namely, Canadian military expert Douglas Bland’s 2010 novel Uprising. But while the prospect of a native insurgency in Canada admittedly seems a remote threat, it is a real one, and something that Canadian strategic planners, who plan for pretty much every scenario, must consider.
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