PJB PJB:
Donny...What,exactly, is rightfully yours?
I have a constitutionally protected right to have the agreements that your grandfathers made to mine honoured.
You have the right to live in this country because I honour my end of the bargain, to share this land with you.
My rights and obligations and just as legally binding as yours are.
Unfortunately the crown, and ultimately you, are responsible for the poor decision making and ethnocentric nature of your people from the moment you signed treaty up until now.
We may not be able to recapture the 200 years or more we lost because we were confined to our reserves living under corrupt Indian agents who pilfered our lands and denied us the opportunity to join your way of living unless we renounced our Indian status.
But we will, at every opportunity hold you accountable for those mistakes - and more importantly in your courts and on your terms we are doing just that.
I have no intention of letting bygones be bygones as long as our standards of living and our employment rates and our levels of health lag behind that of non-Aboriginals.
And I have said may ties that our people have alot of work to do ourselves. But the time that you get to dictate our progress has passed. The days that we accept your words and promises and fail to hold you accountable for every blade of grass that you own because of our generosity has ended.
Our forefathers envisioned us sharing this land and traveling down the river as two equal, but separate people in seperate canoes. Turns out that as we helped you and made promises to you - promises that you were required to make through your own laws, your people stole, and defrauded and hindered our participation in the building of the civilization that you claim that we do not care to participate in today.
My grandfather fought beside your grandfathers for Canada in WW2. In return he was sent back to the reserve as a pauper, poor, same as he was when he went to fight for the freedom of all of us. In the meantime your grandfathers enjoyed land grants, credit, pensions...
And you chastise me and the rest of us people who are descendents our noble grandfathers like you have some sort of honour or integrity left after 150+ years of assimilation, greed and apartheid?
Today our victories are not sentimental, emotional or gifts from the Crown or you out of kindness. They are legal proceedings with actual legal consequences resulting from the innate dishonesty that your culture seems to be inflicted with.
And I don’t apologise for the state of my people today. We are responsible for our own rebuilding. But that includes holding each and every Canadian liable for every shred or harm that has ever been inflicted on us and our forefathers.
What is rightfully mine? It is rightfully mine to hold you and every Canadian accountable for the land you live on and to the original keepers of this land.
What happens, as in the case of the Mohawks, if your grandfathers sold the land off? Any different than my United Empire Loyalist grandfathers selling their land off that was given at the same time for the same reason?
This is not 'treaty' land.
These were land grants given to all those who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War.
The Mohawks were given land which they in time, sold off.
The United Empire Loyalists were given land, which they in time sold off.
Facts are facts and the Mohawks are immigrants just like those Loyal Americans that fled the 13 Colonies.
We have gone over this so many times yet you just can't grasp the facts because they don't suit your agenda.
This is not Manitoba.
This is Ontario with an entirely different history which you quite obviously are ignorant of and are unwilling to learn about.
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