EyeBrock EyeBrock:
The Mohawks didn't sign a treaty. They got land in Canada for helping the British in the American Revolutionary War.
You need to move out of your provincial paradigm and look at history. The Mohawks moved here with the British and Loyalist Americans, then they sold their land grants over time, just like many of of the Loyalists did.
We have been here so many times before and your uneducated opinions never change.
I'm not arguing with you.
What I'm saying is that the poor reputation Canada has in dealing with First Nations leads me to believe that these folks probably have some legitimate beef.
Considering that there are more than 800 land claims outstanding, and hundreds that have been settled, forgive me for not believing you pleas that out of the hundreds of groups of First Nations that somehow the Mohawk got treated more honestly than the rest of us.
We are not winning land claims and such with fiction. We are proving that the Canadians used technicalities and fraud and deceit to take what is rightfully ours. The crimes and the atrocities that your people committed are a shame to your legacy and the Crown that represents you.
That lack of integrity leads even your own people to believe us - and that is what prevents any lawful authority from intervening in Caledonia.
The people who advocate for the removal and/or murder of the Natives protesting in Caledonia are the minority. That is why the police and the government are trying to outwait or negotiate with the Mohawk. If any politician thought they could win more votes than they would lose, those Mohawk would be run out of there months and months ago.
And for the rest of you, if you make a promise to me and I hold you accountable for that promise, don’t get the impression that I am holding you accountable because you are white. I am holding you accountable because you made a promise.
Being Canadian has responsibilities. Yours is to have the integrity to uphold the promises made in the Treaties and other promises that allow you (under your own laws) to live on this land. I am a Canadian covered by treaty, so are you. It is not called "blaming whitey". It is called a fact.