INAC's Optimism...

Hi Friends
After a full week of investigative reports about the abysmal conditions found on the various reservations here in Canada, the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development weighs in with his ...unique take on things.
His position is "I actually think there has been much progress, and I am not a pessimist. I think things are moving in a very good direction. I'm quite optimistic."
optimistic about what exactly, I'd like to know? The "final solution" to the Indian problem as set out on by the first minister of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, so many decades ago?" To me at lest this seems to be the reason for his, and this governments optimism.

This piece of drivel, from the minister responsible, after the investigative report on third world living conditions. This after the government has effectively shafted the Native Womens Association of Canada doling out more money and power to the police and banning the "Sisters in Spirit" moniker from getting any funding if they use that name???Whatever could be the reason for that?Was it because the NWAC has done such a good job of branding for this very worthy cause, and that maybe the Canadian as well as the international press have noticed and reported on it? Femicide=Genocide.

While The Star was reporting on reserves here in Ontario, the Winnipeg Free Press was also running stories about conditions on their reserves.Is this any way for any one to live?
I am sure even our most hardened among us would agree that this is an unconscionable treatment for a government to indulge in towards any segment of their society. Who indeed would wish these living conditions on any one? Can Minster Duncan's optimism be correctly guessed as the ability of a segment of Canadian society's ability to not survive these abysmal conditions much longer, and that he will have indeed finally solved the "Indian Problem?"

We the Indigenous people are in an undeclared war with this country's colonizer governments to this very day. To live cheek to jowl in these horrific conditions with the colonizers who to this day reap obscene profits from the theft of your country is nothing less than criminal. I assert that Canada's government is engaging in war crimes against the Native people here, and they should be charged with these crimes against humanity, and held accountable.
I sincerely hope this is not just my opinion!

regards Debra