Here we go again... with consultation of five First Nations. Tax payers are getting sick of it,

I guess you do not know that is a requirement. So, time to get used to it.

Good that these students will begin to learn right from the start of what that means and how to deal with it.

I know it is a requirement. The system was engineered by our spinless government and it will break our country.Already mining companies are taking a negative look at B.C. because of the red tape involved in getting anything approved. Anything to do with land or resources is being bogged down by the approval process of the native bands. Nine out of ten times, all they want is money. GREAT SYSTEM WE HAVE. Quit trying to paint this system with a rosey colored brush because it ain't. Time we got rid of political correctness and got on with business.

This reminds me of the ad Gordo ran in the provincial election in the late 90's. It showed him shoveling money of the back of a truck saying the NDP were doing it. Now he is still at it, doing it himself. He threw a lot around before the last election as well.

"Time we got rid of political correctness and got on with business."

I wish you the best of luck!!!

I will spend my time on more productive ways that have a greater chance of succeeding.

The good news part ...... we are getting back (sort of) a program that has existed since the time the CNC was first created some 35+ years ago.

We are getting back a program which CNC should never have gotten rid of, but then again, maybe this is what it took to get some much needed money to bring the program into the realities of the 21st century.

Finally, maybe this is what it took to make some radical and much needed changes to the program to ensure that those who graduate have some understanding of working at the ground and planning level in a more integrated fashion with the rest of the land based resources. Sometimes one has to make a clean sweep in order to implement change.

Ok, Giterdun, that's enough out of you, fcol!!
Show some respect to our Native friends, they were here first!

First, second or last, they have got no right to suck off of the system. The financial mismanagement would land a whitey in jail. Oh by the way HD... I've got no respect for someone that does not earn their keep, unless they are not ablebodied.

Most people today DON'T "earn their keep", and that's a trend that we'll find will be more difficult (and foolish) to reverse than coming to our senses and letting "native bands" dictate what will or won't be done on anything other than the lands the Crown has already reserved for them.

I am very pleased to see a renewed interest in our resources in this province. The demand is continuing to grow and we need to change with the times. Congratulations for responding in a positive way. I support all of the associations listed above who support the program. Chester

I do not exactly understand what it means to earn one's keep.

Is a 12 year old earning his/her keep?

Did a person who earned an average of $150,000 per year and paid all taxes throughout his/her life but died before they could collect old age and health benefits of all kinds earn his or her keep?

How about the person who earned an average of $20,000 per year, had to pay low taxes as a result, never accessed welfare, and lived to 95, taking full advantage of 30 some years of old age, health and living allowance benefits upon retiring?

So, what does earning one's mean exactly? Whoi is taking more than they use out of the system and who is putting more in?

Do we really want to account for that? If we do, I bet you a lot will be surprised at the outcome.

The idea of "earning one's keep" is no longer relevant in any case. Overall, it would be impossible under the current financial set-up for everyone, even if they were all "able-bodied", to "earn their own keep". To do that we'd ALL have to be able to pay FOR what we've done entirely FROM what we've done. Not from what we're doing, or are going to have to do. And currently we ALL can't do that. And the number that CAN'T grows ever larger.

To be able again to do that would require either that we forego virtually all modern methods of production, and go back to an era where almost ALL 'costs' were CURRENT 'labour costs'. Something we haven't seen since the Middle Ages, and, hopefully, are smart enough to NOT want to revert to.

Or, alternately, we recognize the modern reality that more and more of the 'earning' of one's 'keep' is going to have to come from a source other than "the job".

BTW, I think what the government has done in regards to the CNC is a very wise move to make. Even the BC Liberals do do the odd thing right once in a (long) while!