Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
An Ontario Memeber of Parliament MP Pierre Poilievre broke away from the pack, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public heartfelt apology to all First Nations for historic abuses against them.
Mr. Poilievre stated on a live in Radio call in show that "Are Canadians really getting value for our money by throwing money at First Nation?" Mr. Poilievre was referring to the 10 Billion dollars annually allotted to First Nations across Canada.
In my opinion, it is true we are not getting value for our hard earned tax dollars.
Perhaps we should revisit this First Nations agreement and do away with this Charity of Forgiveness of 10 Billion Dollars annually.
When you break it down 10 Billion dollars annually split amongst 1.2 million First Nations peoples, works out to less than $7,000 per aboriginal person every year.
Now First Nations do not get the whole "Bill Gates" payout of $7,000 dollars, No siree, a good chunk of this pocket change is eaten up by a bloated Indian and Northern Affairs Government Bureaucracy, leaving a few thousand dollars a year for each First Nations peoples to run infrastructure of Canada Wide First Nations communities, such as schools, water, roads, policing, operations and maintenance and housing etc.
Yep, I think we should scrap the entire First Nations agreement, and develop a Landlord Based First Nations agreement, whereby every square goddamn inch of Canadian soil is paid out to First Nations on a pro rata basis at todays Real Estate values.
Then and only then will First Nations not feel as if they are being given Charity. I think just the City of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland alone should bring in $10 billion dollars, with an additional $4 Billion dollars from the rest of the province of British Columbia. All that annual rent would then go to First Nations peoples of British Columbia.
Seems fair to me~!
Local Tory MP blasted for 'judgmental' aboriginal comments
By ELISABETH JOHNS
Hours before the prime minister made an historic apology to aboriginals for residential school abuses, Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre made what critics called biased and shocking statements about natives.
Speaking with Steve Madely and Michael Harris on CFRA radio yesterday, Poilievre was asked for his thoughts on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's forthcoming apology.
"We spent $10 billion -- $10 billion -- in annual spending this year alone for budget year 2007-08," Poilievre said. "Now along with this apology comes another $4 billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years. Some of us are starting to ask, are we really getting value for all this money? My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance. That's the solution in the long run -- more money will not solve it."




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