I'm not sure that you really can say we have the strictest environmental standards in the world. And with the slaughtering of environmental regulations in the last budget, I would be even more reluctant to say that.

Yesterday I read where Uruguay will have 90% of their power supplied by wind power by 2013. And our government is busy clearing the way for oil exploration and facilitating business for the Chinese (and we know how much they care about the environment).

You are right that the world is changing and what may have looked good in 1985, now needs to be re-evaluated.

robertmiller252..keep your hands to yourself...grin
 
 
 
Meh..here's a TD BANK one..pretty good
http://www.td.com/document/PDF/economics/special/sg0612_aboriginal_myth.pdf

are you slow or just obtuse?
 
"I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation." ~Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga, From an address to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

"We will never have peaceas long as we make waron Mother Earth."
A quote from the 2008 Haudenosaunee Statement to the United Nations' Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues presented by Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faith Keeper.www.twocircles.org/ THE IROQUOIS THANKSGIVING ADDRESS"Ohenton Kariwahtekwen" (Words Before all Else)GREETINGS TO THE NATURAL WORLDhttp://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/thanksgiving.htm&http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Call-Consciousness-Akwesasne-Notes/dp/1570671591  
 

How Canada developed a nest egg or GNP - I''ll give you one hint..MacDonald + treaty+ 5 million + the Indian Act + Reserves+ sub soil natural resource revenue= LRT & monies held in trust by DIANDHere is some research on Lands/Trust/ Revenue (LRT)"First Nation bands are asking the federal government to explain what happen to more than $10 billion in trust accounts managed by the federal government on behalf of aboriginal people.Indian trust accounts are a little known aspect of federal responsibility and the court actions from across the country, turn the tables on the financial accountability issue.Instead of questioning Aboriginal leadership about federal funding, Ottawa is now being asked to be fiscally responsible and Ottawa's management practices are also being scrutinizedThe lawsuits are based on six court actions since 1996 from across the country. One is for First Nations bands and usually involves a band's revenues from land transactions or oil and royalties.It's a major concern," said Dennis Whitebird, a regional chief with the Assembly of First Nations.

Indigenous people live in the fourth world..do a bit of research on George Manual & WCIP..then we'll talk

There is considerable evidence to show Aboriginal people enjoyed good health at the time of first contact with Europeans. Historical records and the findings of modern paleo-biology suggest that many of the illnesses common today were once rare, and that mental and physical vigour once prevailed among Aboriginal people:

[Aboriginal people] were not subject to disease, and knew nothing of fevers….They were not subject to the gout, gravel, fevers or rheumatism. The general remedy was to make themselves sweat, which they did every month and even oftener.6

Before the Indian began to use the white man’s foods, he was perforce compelled to live on a comparatively simple diet. His choice was limited, his cooking simple. Yet he lived in perfect health and strength…and attained a vigour, a robustness, that puts to shame the strength and power of civilized man.7

Skeletal remains of unquestionably precolumbian date…are, barring a few exceptions, remarkably free from disease. Whole important scourges [affecting Europeans during the colonial period] were wholly unknown….There was no plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox or measles. Cancer was rare, and even fractures were infrequent….There were, apparently, no nevi [skin tumours]. There were no troubles with the feet, such as fallen arches. And judging from later acquired knowledge, there was a much greater scarcity than in the white population of…most mental disorders, and of other serious conditions.8

6 Nicholas Denys (1672)

7 Historian George Wharton James (1908)

8 Virgil J. Vogel, American Indian Medicine , p. 159.

Thanks.  Will do.

It is not about their skin colour. It's about Inherent and Treaty rights...