Aboriginal Leadership Not Taking Responsibility...

Christie Blatchford:

Pickton inquiry report ignores ‘broken state’ of Aboriginal culture

There is a “tragedy of epic proportion” in this country all right, but it isn’t the one cited in the enormous, expensive and weirdly cloying...

Billions in transfer payments, resource royalities, illegal sales on reserves, income from cigarette manufacturing, etc. flow into the aboriginal coffers but it seems those who benefit are in the minority which highlights the quality of the leadership.

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