Oh, yeah. That’s going to be a big selling point in other provinces.
Telling the rest of the country that Ottawa has found a morally superior model, and it’s Quebec, will be as popular in Alberta as Ottawa telling Quebecers their province should follow Alberta’s lead on ending equalization and building pipelines.
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No Liberal government would ever risk offending Quebecers by holding up Alberta (or Ontario, or B.C.) as a shining example. Yet, the Trudeau government has no hesitation advocating the reverse, which gives you an excellent example of how skewed the Liberals’ view of Confederation is.
Bellegarde said the federal government needs to commit to sustained funding over the next five to 15 years to bring infrastructure in Indigenous communities up to the same level as the rest of Canada.
Indigenous leaders say they doubt the government s 2030 target is attainable without more funding to address the decades of neglect that have created a wide chasm in living standards between many Indigenous communities and the rest of Canada.
Canada ranked 12th internationally in the 2016 United National Human Development Index, but the on-reserve population ranked 78th.
Some estimates suggest up to $30 billion is needed to deal with infrastructure gap in First Nations alone.
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In the 1998 movie Shakespeare in Love, there is a scene when the financial backer says to the producer (and I am paraphrasing): “The actors don’t know their lines, the sets aren’t finished, the tickets haven’t sold and we are supposed to open tomorrow. How can that be?” At which point the producer looks him straight in the eye and responds, “I don’t know, it’s a mystery.”
These past few days, we are all feeling more and more like much of our world is living in a state of “It’s a Mystery” and, somehow, all of us are expected to believe it all and follow the rules with as little push back as possible.
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