- Peter Foster: Rights not a cure for Indian Act
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New book’s suggestion that a wave of native entrepreneurialism would flow from property rights is dreaming in technicolour
By Peter FosterA boriginal people are just like us. They have the same desire to “better their condition” and acquire property, and the same “propensities to trade.” The problem is that they don’t live in the same conditions or cultural environment as us. It costs Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars each year to keep native people in a squalid state of isolated dependency. Meanwhile there is a vast “Aboriginal Industry” whose interests are dependent on exploiting white guilt, extolling primitive “culture” and suggesting that the solution to all problems lies in self-government and successful land claims.
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