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. with. numerous -. Indians.

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_ having. fought various ecological
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look at, who thinks, in effect,
Canada’s native population should
be ‘‘free’’.

- That is, they. should be’ entitled
to self-government on their
reserves, if they: want it.

By the way, I doubt that the ma-
jority of B.C.’s: Indians want it.
right away. With something like:a
90 per cent unemployment rate,
with most families sustained only _

by the dole, they’d be crazy to try”

to accomplish too much too soon.
The reason Canada is so excil-

able about South Africa, I submit,

is because of our own ‘parallel his-

‘tory — that is, until: the declara-

tion of the policy of apartheid by a
‘dim-witted ‘regime in

Zealand. and. South - Africa,”
children of the British Empire, had°

followed ‘almost exactly the same

course. in‘ terms -of ‘ dealing with |
their “native populations’’.
‘The. big difference is “that, in

remain the vast ‘majority. (Oh, and
of course, in. our. country

1 everybody has the vote and we and. -
‘the. riatives alike. are: guaranteed,

teedom ‘of speech.) I-say-that-a-

“form. of “soft: ‘apartheid’? has. ex-
isted ‘in Canada - all - through © “this:
century, but before that. it was’:

“hard” apartheid, thank

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egal doubt if the ‘Indians, who

were a majority then in this so-
called ‘province’, but who were
simply. not invited to join in the
vote, had, indeed, been asked their
opinion about joining Confedera-

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tion. They probably would have
said: ‘‘no!’’

know in my heart of hearts, I
feel tike a human being rather than
a Canadian (or a Scot or a half-
Frenchman or whatever) and
therefore I would like to see the
native people of this conquered
region called Canada given the best
deal possible under the cir-
cumstances.

This doesn’t mean giving away
the whole shop, actually. In fact,
from the point of view of a fiscal

conservative, which | happen to -

be, the entire free enterprise philo-
sophical matrix should kick into
high. gear at the mere mention of
the phrase ‘Indian szlf-govern-
ment’’, since the goal is to pull
away from the smothering gov-

ernment teat, i.e., instead of being |

funded by taxpayers’ bucks from
now to eternity, many Indians

‘would like to hit the highway of

fate on their own.

Can you imagine a situation
where you spend 90 per cent of
your organization's time filling out
government forms? Well, that’s:
what it’s like for native groups.

. Sure, the dole comes down, but it

sucks away almost everything in
sight from a point of view of ini-
tiative.

Canada and South Africa have
more in common than Canada
wants to admit.. There is only one
way to change that. It is to give:
our native people as much
autonomy as possible in their
“homelands”, to put the best face
on what is, any way you look at it,’
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