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This could go on for some time yet.
Justin Trudeau meets with hunger striking chief Theresa Spence
OTTAWA — Like many Canadians, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence spent a quiet Christmas morning with her family, opening presents with two of her five daughters.
But far from her home on James Bay, Spence entered the third week of a hunger strike Tuesday, an action she says won’t end until Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston agree to sit down and talk about Canada’s treaty relationship with First Nations leadership.
She did have a visitor on Boxing Day, however, Liberal Leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau came by to meet with the First Nations leader.
“It was deeply moving to meet [Theresa Spence] today. She is willing to sacrifice everything for her people. She shouldn’t have to,” Trudeau wrote on twitter.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/26/theresa-spence-justin-trudeau/
Still hoping to get my Christmas present. I just need to know where it is.
Mybe you were on the "naughty" list this year.
Just need one location .....actually.....make that two.
Nu, again I have to help you. Your basis for your comment about Israel is because it is Jewish and you believe that Israel is thus a state consisting of a race of people. Judaism is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry. For instance, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews are both "Jewish." However, whereas Ashkenazi Jews often hail from Europe, Sephardic Jews often hail from the Middle East. The majority of the Ashkenazi Jewish population, are not the children of Abraham but descendants of pagan Eastern Europeans and Eurasians, concentrated mostly in the ancient Kingdom of Khazaria in what is now Ukraine and Western Russia. The Khazarian nobility converted during the early Middle Ages, when European Jewry was forming.
People of many different races have become Jewish over the centuries. Also, although today Israel is often called the Jewish homeland, being Jewish is not a nationality because Jews have been dispersed throughout the world for almost two thousand years. Hence, Jews come from countries all over the world.
Being Jewish means that you are part of the Jewish people, whether because you were born into a Jewish home and culturally identify as Jewish or because you practice the Jewish religion (or both).
I have met many first nations over years…etc
I have met them myself….but I also ask myself... ‘why’? The answer is very simple for anyone who knows history. If you had been born Native and your forefathers and parents treated as they were and the land stolen and your people murdered and your children taken away from your family and now the latest government changing laws to make it easier to take more land………I think you would feel the same as them. Hatred and anger is not born in a human….it is taught to them.
Dr. Pamela Palmater who use to work at Justice Canada. She has been a practicing lawyer for 14 years and she holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and heads the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.
She has her Doctorate in the Science of Law (JSD) in Aboriginal Law at Dalhousie University Law School. In addition, she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Aboriginal Law, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with an award in environmental and natural resources law, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a double major in Native Studies and History. Her Masters thesis focused on the Aboriginal and treaty right to cross the Canada-US border, while her doctoral thesis focused on the Indian Act’s registration and band membership provisions.
(Part 1 of 4 parts, the other three of which can be seen to the right of the video)
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