Report Calls for Discussion to Look at Relocating 'Non-Viable Reserves'
Windspeaker › Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, April 2010
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The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's newest proposal "is a call for Indigenous leaders to engage with community and the government" on discussions for relocating "non-viable" First Nations communities closer to urban centres.
FCPP, an independent nonprofit organization, is not suggesting that the federal government force First Nations to move, stressed Joe Quesnel, author of the report, but is broaching the topic as a "conversation starter for First Nations."George Stanley, Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for Alberta, questions whether the Crown would be willing to provide viable land to First Nations. After all, he noted, it was the Crown that cast First Nations out on what Quesnel is calling "non-viable" land.See the full content of this document
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Report Calls for Discussion to Look at Relocating 'Non-Viable Reserves'
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's newest proposal "is a call for Indigenous leaders to engage with community and the government" on discussions for relocating "non-viable" First Nations communities closer to urban centres.
FCPP, an in...See the full content of this document
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