POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Quebec Agreement, Self-Determination, Legal Certainty
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There are 600 communities officially apart of the indigenous communities. The population growth of indigenous canadians is higher than non indigenous. The indigenous will contribute to the workforce and be a strategic element in the work. In the next 20 years, there will be a fall in the work force force. This could provide them with better conditions of life for the next generations. One of the reserves is in downtown vancouver and leased their land in order to provide for their families. This diversity of outcomes is flawed and it challenges the issues of the communities. These communities are concerned about clean water, self governance, suicide rates, education. More than 50% live in cities of more than 100,000. Raises specific issues, the supreme court says that indigenous identity is with the individual not with the communities. There"s a long history of colonialism in canada, it can be blamed for the problems confronting indigenous people today.