Paul Martin owns a shipping company.
Paul Martin looks after Paul Martin.

They have better access here.

Educational equity? I have a first nations buddy and Indian affairs paid for all of his university, even room and board. How about some of that equity passed on to needy caucasian people?

Paul Martin used to be Prime Minister Martin. What is his track record on aboriginals?

I'll buy into equity when I get a free university tuition and go fishing with a net.

What a bunch of red necks.

Giving our aboriginal a free education is the first step to solving the high crime rate in the City. But all we se is "ME"
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So I see a parachute landing in the NorthEast??

Sharing facts makes people rednecks?

Red necks was probably an in appropriate word and I apologize.

But lets look at some facts if this is what you think you are sharing

1; One billion dollars for a lake for a bunch of politicians to sit by and enjoy their Crown Royal.

2: Seventy five billion to bailout the banks for bad loans that they wrote.

3; Fifteen 18 billion for a war that will never be resolved.

4: Sixty billion for air craft for what purpose.

And need I list more. I am very happy that our aboriginals are getting a free education. We have been screwing them around for 300 years. Its payback time.

For the money that our governments pee away every Canadian could enjoy a free education that would be a start to solve some of the crime problems that we have today in our City.. We are forever trying to fix stuff but we don’t have the money or time to see what the cause is.

No and I am not an aboriginal. I believe in justice for all.
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Retired has a good point. I think that racism is applying different rules for people based on their racial background. In my estimation there seems to be 2 sets of rules for everything from where a person lives and how much of their income is taxed to medial care premiums. All of these rules have backfired and now serve to divide us rather than unite and equalize us. I suggest we might reconsider the rights of all Canadians and seek ways to create equal opportunity for all.

Retired, my statement was fact. Martin's claim is a BS way to get publicity and favor.

Retired does have a good point! I think all Canadians should have educational equity; but until that day comes, I'll keep applying for the small inheritances my ancestors left behind from when the Treaty officer came to what's now BC. By the time he (and of course he was a he) got here, he'd run outta money from dealings in the East. So he just bluntly said, "I have no more treaty money so for here, all the Indians will recieve the basic treaty agreements I made in the East: free education, health and housing. Just make sure you 30 Indians remain on those 2 acres kk? k!" or something along those lines...so I continue to reap the benefits while I live in an assimilated hell! Is that how Canadians do business eh?

And to play an even harder game (which I learned from being assimilated), I won't give up my rights as an Indian until you give up your rights as a Canadian. It's all perspective people. Maybe when we become People again then we can exceed our own expectations of what it means to be "Yinka Dene" (People of the Earth)...Martin's got a point: if Canadians can recognize Japanese and Korean business as different than why not for the People who have been doing business here for over 10,000 years? Who even traded with the Chinese of the Ming Dynasty!! Geeeeeez, I'm sure we can all learn something TOGETHER!

Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada, what is his track record on dealing with these issues. He had lots of opportunity, but to my knowlege did sfa.

He is not called **Mr Dithers for no reason** This guy is a smoothie. He does not do anything for nothing. In the old days he would be referred to as a snake oil salesman. Dont forget he took $40 Billion out of the EI Fund, and sold off the last 19% of Petro Can shares for $3.5 Billion. Cut transfer payments to the Provinces, and then said. **I am a great finance minister**

If the Liberals are offering something to the First Nations it is because they want something not because the First Nations need something.

porter wrote: "my statement was fact .... Martin's claim was BS ..."

Martin's claims from the above report:

1. I can tell you I have been on reserves in the north of Canada which are every bit as bad as anything I have seen in the poorest nations in the world.

2. while Canadians can accept that Japanese or Koreans operate in a different way, they cannot accept that Aboriginals also have a different way of doing things.

So tell me Porter why you think that those two statements are BS rather than fact?

Let me just show one example to back up the statement #1

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