As Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to meet with national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Shawn Atleo, as well as other First Nations leaders this month, it’s fascinating to remember how different things were when Canada began. On a related note, I am nearly through Richard Gwyn’s masterful second volume on John A. Macdonald (Nation Maker – Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times.) Gwyn reminds us that the American Indian was in drastically worse shape than their Canadian counterparts during the late nineteenth century. |
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