Too many First Nations kids in care

[FreeRights]

We need to examine where the FN children in care come from. Many FN groups live in isolated areas with education, healthcare and food security being big obstacles to success. While native groups may decry the fact that their children are placed with non-native families, there are not enough FN families willing to take the large numbers of children needing care.
The hunting and gathering nomadic lifesyle of some first nations groups has been so severely disrupted by the deluge of non native settlers that FN are unable to make a living in the traditional way. Canadian society has benefited from the development of the disrupted FN lands and treaties and court rulings have been set down to compensate FN people.
No prime minister has the power to overrule those treaties.
For the past 400 years, native americans from north to south have been over run by disease and pushed around from place to place. The cost to maintain this system is cheaper by far than the the alternatives. You cannot force education on FN, that was a failed experiment by the good intentions of the church.
The best possible outcome is for native groups to become self reliant with sustainable development. That can be achieved with education and economic development. Leaving children in environments that place them at risk is not ideal, nor is placing them in foster care but which way would you rather have it?

Just throwing it out there, but how about neither?

We have treaties in place. They have governments and land that don't pay taxes to our government. They don't contribute in the same way that others that don't have their own governance do. Why should our government be required to take care of their own?

[SassySasquatch]

The majority of Indigenous, in Canada, are indeed taxpayers since the majority have moved from reservation to urban centres - taxed like anyone else. Please, do your own research if you doubt that statement - I got better things to do than educate You.

[FreeRights]

The majority of Indigenous, in Canada, are indeed taxpayers since the majority have moved from reservation to urban centres - taxed like anyone else. Please, do your own research if you doubt that statement - I got better things to do than educate You.

Of course, many live in urban centres, pay tax, and are no different than anyone else.

The majority of the children in care are from reserves, who do not contribute the same way the ones in urban centres do.

[SassySasquatch]

Wheresoever the reserve are located so too are its Treaty territories, which presumably cities, towns, acreages, farms, industries situate themselves, they indeed HAVE contributed.

[FreeRights]

Wheresoever the reserve are located so too are its Treaty territories, which presumably cities, towns, acreages, farms, industries situate themselves, they indeed HAVE contributed.

In the same way that I do? Those on reserves pay taxes and contribute in the same way that I do?

[SassySasquatch]

No, you pay individual personal and/or business tax - reserves are for populations disposed of their historical birthright so Canadians can settle and prosper on this bounty known as kanada.

[SassySasquatch]

Much of this is covered at 301 level courses at university or personal tenacity to educate oneself