A look at the budget will show what the federal government is doing about these important issues. ... The federal government has provided $1.3 billion for Aboriginal healthcare over the next five years, as well as $600 million that will go to improving water treatment and waste disposal on the reserves. ... The federal government has recently created the Millennium Scholarship Foundation to help give young adults greater access to education at CEGEP and university levels. ...

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The Indian Act is a Canadian statute that incorporates the issues of governance, reserves, and status among the indigenous population (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada). An act created to recognize Aboriginal culture and heritage, subtly proves to be oppressive, by allowing the authority to lie in the hands of the federal government. ... The Indian Act establishes the reserves, and the land base of the aboriginal communities, not negotiating the desired territory they would pursue. ... In the same year, the unemployment rate for the on-reserve Indian population was 31 percent...

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In Sheldon v Ramsay in 1852 an Ontario Court held that the Six Nations Indians had no legal rights to their reserve lands, because the common law could not be "part savage and part civilized." ... At issue were treaty protected hunting rights, on the one hand, and the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a federal statute, on the other. ... They agreed with the decision in the court below which enforced the federal legislation. ... Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice on Indian constitutional issues, was asked what rights he thought were protected by sec...

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Equally puzzling is the referral of Trudeau's nationalist compatriots and colleagues in the years since to give him any credit for fighting in 1942 a good nationalist fight on behalf of the anti-conscription, quasi-separatist candidacy of Jean Drapeau; not so puzzling in the refusal of Angelo Saxon patriots to give Trudeau any credit at all for joining a reserve regiment before the war. ... P.E.T. never did deal in democratic norms; instead, the elitist Trudeau gave Quebec's elitists the first crack at the bilingual club and transformed the federal bureaucracy, at least on its highes...

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