National Aboriginal Organizations Need to Rethink Conservatives as "Partners"
Submitted on November 6, 2011
By Pamela Palmater - October 28, 2011
Canada's underlying objective in Indian policy is to "rid Canada of the Indian problem" and to free up land for settlement and development...[S]ome of us are shocked when we hear unbelievably racist comments come from the Minister of Indian Affairs or [Prime Minister Stephen] Harper. Why the shock? They have told us many, many times who they really are and how they really feel about our issues. Our wishing it wasn't so won't change that. What we can change is whether or not we continue to prop up the Conservatives and their ludicrous ideas, or whether we stand together against it.
