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Oscar The Grouch,Aug 30 2006, 05:31 PM Wrote:Him and I talked a little while ago about the caledonia thing, he supports the protesters, but not their methods. 
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This is interesting ... would your friend accept the ruling of the courts if it went agains the natives?

Isn't that the fundamental problem that transcends Caledonia?

How do you deal with a group of people who don't even accept the authority of the Canadian judicial system and are prepared to break "our" laws to get what they want? And yet they are totally prepared to take the Canadian taxpayers' money when it suits them.

This kind of one-sided entitlement ... the idea of a "nation within a nation" needs a resolution first, if we are to truly solve Caledonia and prevent other similar incidents in the future.

I say break off the negotiations now ... keep the land in provincial control but get the law-breaking protestors off the land ... nobody can win at this point.

Everybody take a step back and ask themselves what the relationship between aboriginals and the rest of us is going to be .... and then make that the subject of negotiation.

I think it's time to ask my MP and MPP what their positions are. It'll be interesting to see if I get a straight answer ... or the kind of answer I'd write for them if they were my client.