“He Said She Said” put Harper’s First Nations education plan under fire. I agree with this team’s perspective. The only people who will benefit from Harper’s First Nations education plan will be the Aboriginal industry. Harper needs to put his money where his mouth is and invest that money directly into First Nations education at the grassroots level where it is so urgently needed. Our children are suffering. Does not anyone care?
Like the proposed national roundtables on citizenship arising from Bill C-3, what more can a blue-ribbon panel on First Nations education tell us that has not already been said?? History is repeating itself. Money flows to the National Aboriginal Organizations, who in turn distribute the funds to the Aboriginal industry, who then prepares a report that is shelved. We have seen this over and over and over. Stop already!
How long are we going to play this ineffective game? I guess until we are all assimilated and the National Aboriginal Organizations no longer have any citizens to assimilate.
The following are comments from the article:
“If Harper was so supportive and open to improving the education, employment, and living conditions for our First Nations people, he would have shelled out the money for programs dedicated to those priorities in 2005. The groundwork for progress was already laid; Harper rejected it.”
I disagree with this statement. There was absolutely nothing in the Kelowna Accord to implement. The funds spent on the Kelowna Accord should have been directly invested at the grassroots level. The Kelowna Accord is just another example of the Aboriginal industry benefitting off the backs of First Nations once again.
“So like you, I think Harper's letter to Chief Shawn Atleo is just empty rhetoric.”
“I think the most significant take-away from the letter is that Mr. Harper is an empty cipher and an ineffectual blatherer. A crashing bore. A tower without a bell. Most Canadians already knew that. It's too bad that Mr. Atleo, rather than reminding us of that fact, decided instead to play Mr. Harper's game, matching him platitude for platitude. If history is any guide, it won't add up to anything significant for Native Canadians.”
We already know where the money should be spent and how much should be invested in First Nations education at the grassroots level. Just do it!!!!!
Why are we playing the same game over and over and over? It is time to examine who is really benefitting from the game: the grassroots people or the National Aboriginal Organizations and the Aboriginal industry? WHO is watching out for you?
It is time for change at the National Aboriginal Organizational level. They are not effective and not looking after us.
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