Unbowed by federal government threats to cut funding, First Nations across the country continue to make plans for a one-day shutdown of the railway system that could spread into weeks.
Relations with the government have soured significantly since Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budget completely ignored demands to make First Nations poverty a priority.
Things weren’t helped on the weekend after it was revealed that the Canadian military labelled the Mohawk Warrior Society and radical Native groups as “insurgents” in a draft anti-guerrilla field manual obtained by Sun Media.
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice’s aggressive stance on First Nations demands has also pushed relations to a level of acrimony last seen under the Liberals, when former Indian Affairs minister Bob Nault was pushing unpopular reform legislation.
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1 thinkeryyz // May 2, 2007 at 5:42 pm
it is high time to abolish the weird Indian Act and integrate all natives into society without exceptions. It is absurd in 2007 to still have reservations ! Not a single canadian party acts in that direction which proves that there is no democracy here.
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