Dissects the ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. This book concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved not as the result of public policy changes in government but through the actions of the people themselves.
Dissects the ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. This book concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved ...
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom Flanagan describes as "aboriginal orthodoxy" - the belief that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment. ...
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" enti...
