you know, it's interesting to me that they're running hard on this, because it really is such a complicated, delicate issue.

i believe that the last time that somebody proposed this seriously was the infamous chretien white paper back in 1969, and there was such an outcry that they had to retreat from it.

i've tried to explain this here previously, but if there's a more complicated issue in canadian politics, i don't know what it is. the natives want to reframe the issue, but can't agree how to - the indian act is seen as assimilative, but so is the call to abolish it. so, any talk of doing anything at all becomes horribly divisive, and nothing gets done.

in the end, there's no real answer besides assimilation, but you still can't say that, not even now. yet, she nearly is doing exactly that.

i've stated repeatedly that the importance of indigenous support to the green movement cannot be underestimated. so, to come out with a policy that is so controversial in the indigenous community - if almost universally accepted by white liberals - is kind of head-scratching.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/greens-indigenous-reconciliation-election-1.5310561

the liberals are supposed to do better than this