Referendum clearly racist Final Edition
[C. Krauss] and [T. Watson] can sneer about race-based solutions all they want but perhaps it is they who lack the courage to face the nature of the problem, which just happens to be race-based. White people came to this land and occupied it without the consent of the races who inhabited it. Oops! A...
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| Published in | Trail Times |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Trail, B.C
Postmedia Network Inc
23.04.2002
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| Summary: | [C. Krauss] and [T. Watson] can sneer about race-based solutions all they want but perhaps it is they who lack the courage to face the nature of the problem, which just happens to be race-based. White people came to this land and occupied it without the consent of the races who inhabited it. Oops! Aboriginal title exists -- it is not some sort of thing that liberals or bleeding hearts want to give, to native people, it is enshrined in our Constitution. This is a cold, hard, legal fact. Sorry, fellows. Sorry, Mr. Campbell. Personally, I look forward to a day when, as the letter writers state, all of us can be "Canadian citizens on an equal rather than a racial footing". Unfortunately, neither the referendum nor the antagonistic attitudes expressed by Krauss and Watson will do anything to advance this dream. |
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