XPost: can.polics, ont, polics   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   Recent First Nation monetary mismanagement issues show that hundreds of   
   billions of federal and provincial moneys over 2 decades is still a   
   miserable failure.  The living conditions in these remote places is a   
   wart on Canada for sure.  But lets skip if it isn't enough or if it is   
   just more corruption.   
      
   Take Attawapiskat and Kenora.   
      
   Kenora is an economically stressed city, high unemployment and could use   
   a boost.  Not a hand out, but a hand up.   
      
   We have Attawapiskat, no jobs, no training, no reliable supply routes,   
   just doing nothing all day but sitting in the woods.  And the climate in   
   winter is unforgiving and the old cultural ways of survival are long   
   gone.  Seems like nonsense to live there unless you have a pretty good   
   job and 95%++ of them do not.   
      
   In fact more than 1/2 of the Attawapiskat members have left, with less   
   that 1800 registered and on the reserve speaks for itself.   
      
   So why not take the homeless (and others in time) on Attawapiskat and   
   move them to subsidized housing in Kenora, build more units employing   
   local people.  Bring them to Kenora, and maybe even some could get jobs   
   help building them.  Use existing more efficient welfare services like   
   the rest of the people.   
      
   Advantages are numerous.  Maximize the value of our tax dollars for   
   starters.  But natives gain better access to water, food, housing,   
   education, jobs, medical, dental and even the Internet.  Everyone wins,   
   city revenues and jobs too.  Even grocery stores get a boost.  HST for   
   government too.   
      
   Smell the coffee Ottawa, this First Nations thing is a Canadian   
   embarrassment that just shows how stupidly ineffective the band   
   governments and Ottawa governments have made things so dysfunctional   
   that it hurts Canadian taxpayers and natives alike.   
      
   But time someone in Ottawa got the balls and did the right thing for a   
   change.  Sure, the tax free chiefs will bitch, so did Gaddafi and others   
   who have lost power and money.  But time to get into this century.  And   
   don't put up with their culture/rascist crap, if they still had a   
   functional culture, they would use the old ways for clean water and   
   housing.  But that skill was lost many moons ago.   
      
   Time to start treating people equally and both sides will benefit.  Even   
   Ottawa benefits, as you will not look like careless chair mushrooms and   
   just tax me more pigs at the taxpayers trough.   
      
   Time to shake it up.   
   --   
   All successful people have one thing in common, if even for a moment   
   they think rationally.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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