My CANADA resolves 2018 list of issues to solve
Happy 2018 New Year to our friends and readers from MY CANADA commentary, let’s all hope this year will bring a great deal of happiness and achievement for Canadians especially to our friends and relatives.
The major items on the list of things that must be accomplished by politicians in 2018 include First Nation issues remaining unresolved. Progress is so slow efforts just don’t seem to be rectifying the situation after centuries of shame for historical wrongs. It is undeniable the solution will take years and won’t be resolved if the same path continues.Third world water conditions on many reserves are not only shameful but absolutely asinine in a country as rich and prosperous as Canada. The situation cannot be tolerated any longer. Changing seventy-one third world community situations should be prioritized ahead of subway expansions, new crude oil carrying pipelines and the host of other planned money making improvements to Canadian services and even infrastructure. It’s not going to be accomplished by the methods currently being used and bogged down in politics designed to assure vote getting.
Canada cannot continue to pretend the majority of those in power and their supporters don’t look down on Indigenous people as lower class citizens. Words are not enough to solve the situation that has stretched unaccepted over the centuries. A solution will not come speedily, as it must, if the leaders of those Indigenous citizens affected are not given full involvement and a platform to express their views, The media must stop ignoring the issue and using it to sensationalize and slant news reports of issues involving the Indigenous population.
We hear in some quarters the solution to all these isolated Indigenous community problems is to force the people to move to “more civilized” communities. The argument vanishes when the Blind River situation where council spent almost 100 million dollars speculating on a development program didn’t materialize as expected. It was supposed to be a project that would give the community many new jobs. The town is apparently facing the possibility, according to one news report, of declaring bankruptcy. Without a doubt the Blind River situation is only one of many similar problems that will eventually surface stopping all levels of Canada's governments from increasing public debt in an effort to chase dreams that might be possible.
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The solution to the Indigenous communities contaminated water problems might simply be to give the Indigenous community leaders support and more importantly deeper inclusion in sharing the responsibility for solving the problem. Maybe that can be accomplished by setting up a committee with the power and direction from parliament (supported by all parties) to expedite such a solution quickly while making the problem a priority for the entire country to solve. Above all, the problem cannot continue to be a political football for every party to use to garner votes for the next or any following election.
In all honesty many Canadians also still consider Indigenous citizens as second class citizens. The statement must be true as indicated by the problems surrounding the investigation for a solution of the hundreds if not thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The circumstances must change immediately or the two nation concept Quebec has not entirely forgotten will become a three nation state of affairs probably tearing the country apart.
A committee as suggested will not be simple to structure since a possible political delay isn’t the only problem that will surface. The Indigenous people themselves must come together independent of influence from the non-native community and present a united front to solve the problem regardless of whether it benefits individual tribes. The conditions affect most Indigenous people that are not members of the more affluent tribes. It can only mean the more financially solid tribes should support, even financially, the less privileged members of their own overall community. It can happen but only if all Canadians demand an end to the unacceptable Indigenous peoples problem in a country as affluent and democratic as Canada.
There will undoubtedly be enormous problems surface with making certain the contaminated water part of the overall Indigenous situation is solved. Canadians hopefully led by more cooperative rather than angry, attacking from every side, political dynasties that we have come to expect. All politicians must recognize the need for an early solution to this problem as a beginning. The communities with contaminated water problems need support with sensible rather than politically vote profitable suggestions for a change. Change is coming as it always does. Can Canadians imagine a Donald Trump style Indigenous leader coming to power in Canada? It could conceivably happen if we don’t solve the Indigenous people problems more quickly.
While on the subject of politics MY CANADA citizens will have some important decisions to contend with this year and next. Although Canada is not the only country facing elections as the US will be facing midterm elections for the House of Representatives that could change the Trump era if the Republican party loses majority control of congress. If POTUS 'The Donald' is stripped of a good deal of his current power to make unpopular decisions the change might be dramatic. But that’s an American problem and there isn’t anything Canadians can do about the situation since we don’t vote for US leaders and can simply complain and make derogatory statements if we disagree with the neighboring country decisions.
In that aspect, our New Years Eve CBC television so-called comedy show featuring Ron James took some liberties criticizing another country’s leader that were less than acceptable. It is not a problem to make remarks about disagreeing with another country’s political leader but to spend the better part of a quarter hour doing so on a program broadcast across Canada that can be picked up in American is not a good idea. Canadians would be disgusted if an American stand-up comedian spent that much time calling down our leader.
The 2018 issues Canada will need to deal with is the changing Trudeau government leading to the 2019 Federal election, several provincial and many municipal elections that are and will continue to capture media headlines. On the Federal scene the current opposition leaders seem to be looking at a steep uphill battle to unseat Justin Trudeau and his government of feminine often rookie political ministers. We are aware parties will be trying to win with promises to buy us great new programs. Those programs can only happen by increasing taxation or debt to buy us off with our own money. But that’s politics and life getting even more disturbing. The Trump surprise election victory in the US is likely an indication of what might or maybe will happen in other jurisdictions in over the next couple of years starting with 2018.
The major items on the list of things that must be accomplished by politicians in 2018 include First Nation issues remaining unresolved. Progress is so slow efforts just don’t seem to be rectifying the situation after centuries of shame for historical wrongs. It is undeniable the solution will take years and won’t be resolved if the same path continues.Third world water conditions on many reserves are not only shameful but absolutely asinine in a country as rich and prosperous as Canada. The situation cannot be tolerated any longer. Changing seventy-one third world community situations should be prioritized ahead of subway expansions, new crude oil carrying pipelines and the host of other planned money making improvements to Canadian services and even infrastructure. It’s not going to be accomplished by the methods currently being used and bogged down in politics designed to assure vote getting.
Canada cannot continue to pretend the majority of those in power and their supporters don’t look down on Indigenous people as lower class citizens. Words are not enough to solve the situation that has stretched unaccepted over the centuries. A solution will not come speedily, as it must, if the leaders of those Indigenous citizens affected are not given full involvement and a platform to express their views, The media must stop ignoring the issue and using it to sensationalize and slant news reports of issues involving the Indigenous population.
We hear in some quarters the solution to all these isolated Indigenous community problems is to force the people to move to “more civilized” communities. The argument vanishes when the Blind River situation where council spent almost 100 million dollars speculating on a development program didn’t materialize as expected. It was supposed to be a project that would give the community many new jobs. The town is apparently facing the possibility, according to one news report, of declaring bankruptcy. Without a doubt the Blind River situation is only one of many similar problems that will eventually surface stopping all levels of Canada's governments from increasing public debt in an effort to chase dreams that might be possible.
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The solution to the Indigenous communities contaminated water problems might simply be to give the Indigenous community leaders support and more importantly deeper inclusion in sharing the responsibility for solving the problem. Maybe that can be accomplished by setting up a committee with the power and direction from parliament (supported by all parties) to expedite such a solution quickly while making the problem a priority for the entire country to solve. Above all, the problem cannot continue to be a political football for every party to use to garner votes for the next or any following election.
In all honesty many Canadians also still consider Indigenous citizens as second class citizens. The statement must be true as indicated by the problems surrounding the investigation for a solution of the hundreds if not thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The circumstances must change immediately or the two nation concept Quebec has not entirely forgotten will become a three nation state of affairs probably tearing the country apart.
A committee as suggested will not be simple to structure since a possible political delay isn’t the only problem that will surface. The Indigenous people themselves must come together independent of influence from the non-native community and present a united front to solve the problem regardless of whether it benefits individual tribes. The conditions affect most Indigenous people that are not members of the more affluent tribes. It can only mean the more financially solid tribes should support, even financially, the less privileged members of their own overall community. It can happen but only if all Canadians demand an end to the unacceptable Indigenous peoples problem in a country as affluent and democratic as Canada.
There will undoubtedly be enormous problems surface with making certain the contaminated water part of the overall Indigenous situation is solved. Canadians hopefully led by more cooperative rather than angry, attacking from every side, political dynasties that we have come to expect. All politicians must recognize the need for an early solution to this problem as a beginning. The communities with contaminated water problems need support with sensible rather than politically vote profitable suggestions for a change. Change is coming as it always does. Can Canadians imagine a Donald Trump style Indigenous leader coming to power in Canada? It could conceivably happen if we don’t solve the Indigenous people problems more quickly.
While on the subject of politics MY CANADA citizens will have some important decisions to contend with this year and next. Although Canada is not the only country facing elections as the US will be facing midterm elections for the House of Representatives that could change the Trump era if the Republican party loses majority control of congress. If POTUS 'The Donald' is stripped of a good deal of his current power to make unpopular decisions the change might be dramatic. But that’s an American problem and there isn’t anything Canadians can do about the situation since we don’t vote for US leaders and can simply complain and make derogatory statements if we disagree with the neighboring country decisions.
In that aspect, our New Years Eve CBC television so-called comedy show featuring Ron James took some liberties criticizing another country’s leader that were less than acceptable. It is not a problem to make remarks about disagreeing with another country’s political leader but to spend the better part of a quarter hour doing so on a program broadcast across Canada that can be picked up in American is not a good idea. Canadians would be disgusted if an American stand-up comedian spent that much time calling down our leader.
The 2018 issues Canada will need to deal with is the changing Trudeau government leading to the 2019 Federal election, several provincial and many municipal elections that are and will continue to capture media headlines. On the Federal scene the current opposition leaders seem to be looking at a steep uphill battle to unseat Justin Trudeau and his government of feminine often rookie political ministers. We are aware parties will be trying to win with promises to buy us great new programs. Those programs can only happen by increasing taxation or debt to buy us off with our own money. But that’s politics and life getting even more disturbing. The Trump surprise election victory in the US is likely an indication of what might or maybe will happen in other jurisdictions in over the next couple of years starting with 2018.