Report: Canada could see indigenous uprising
Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201358113923656697.html
This is a perennial story since the creation of Canada, only now I think Canadians are *somewhat* more responsive to the idea of dealing with it.
The situation described here is product of a 100% colonial past. By "100% colonial" I mean that the Europeans, scratch that, the English and French, had no intention ever of merging their colonialist populations with existing communities with an intent to mutual prosperity. The situation described here is product of a successful movement to plunder a "new world", that for all the plunderers were concerned was uninhabited by humans.
I'm not so despairing as the aljazeera article. I think the creation of Nunavut was an extraordinary progressive achievement. Nunavut was created under Jean Chrétien's liberal gov't.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=nunavut&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x4d0823492a24a5ed:0xffd371054ff1a9b6,Nunavut&gl=ca&sa=X&ei=8HmYUZ-EKuSUiAKly4Eo&ved=0CKcBELYD
Consider the size of that archipelago.
So I know that progressive achievements are possible.
But not at this time.
At the moment Canada is losing its respect in the world because it's ruled by a "Reform/Conservative" coalition under Harper. By "Reform/Conservative" I mean a reunified right adjusted so the speaker for Reform, Harper, is Prime Minister, and where Reform is to the right of anything seen before in the Conservative Party and in Canada. Harper is a neocon. He is Mr. Oilsands coming from Alberta where the oilsands project is destroying the habitat essential to life, killing rivers, lakes and the communities that have bordered on those rivers and lakes for thousands of years.
Recall that this is a colonial story that hasn't a greatly different timeline than 20th c. I/P.
Canada = 1867, Israel = 1948. Less than 100 yrs.
