Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 22, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free a3 natives will no longer sit quietly by report details Litany of problems by Dan Lett Ottawa Canadas aboriginal people must be provided with Power Over their own destiny and billion in additional funding to help them evolve into a Dis Tinct third order of the Royal commission on aboriginal peo Ples recommended the which yesterday delivered a report with More than 400 warned the Federal government that if the report gathers there will be aboriginal people have made it in words and that they will no longer sit quietly waiting for their grievances to be heard and their rights the report stat despite their Long history of some leaders fear that violence is in the the commission report is an exhaustive analysis of the problems facing aboriginal people and ideas on How the situation can be reversed through an 20year it Calls the history of Canadas treat ment of aboriginal people one of wasted wasted wasted the commissions plan Calls for aboriginal people to be recognized As a third order of government with new institutions and sole Power to manage their own among those new institutions should be a National aboriginal parliament that would advise the House of com Mons and Senate on All Laws and poli cies related to aboriginal to address the massive social and economic problems of Canadas the commission recommends massive and immediate increases in Federal to be sustained Over a 20year the commissions estimate of the total Cost of its recommendations is billion Over those two the rationale is that increased spending now would save Money in the future and increase revenues from taxation because aboriginal people would be producers in the sweeping recommendations were warmly embraced by aboriginal Many of whom joined in warn ing the Federal government that it ignores the report at its own this is no time to said Ron Irvin addresses news conference to discuss the recommendations of commissions Assembly of first nations Leader Ovide this is no time to be this is your last the work of the Royal commission is too important to the commission was sparked by the violent native police standoff at in the report took five years to com plete two years longer than planned and Cost nearly Mil commission co chairman Georges former Leader of the said he believes there is an inherent logic in the report that will become Clear to provincial and Federal leaders once they have studied Erasmus conceded that the Money and systemic change called for in the report May not come As quickly As the commission or aboriginal people May but change must the expectations of aboriginal peo ple have risen Erasmus if Canada is not going to listen to this commission then Why would the Young aboriginal people wait for something else Early response from the Federal government was Indian affairs minister Ron Irwin endorsed the Over All message and promised that there would be the worst thing we could do defend everything we Are doing As Good and everything they Are Sug Gesting As too said i think that irresponsible and in going to do but he said there is Little Hope of new Irwin noted that since the liberals came to Power in his is one of very few departments to see its budget most others have been Cut sub but he showed interest in other rec including the creation of aboriginal nations and the possibility of an aboriginal social costs staggering continued from a1 he believes the commissions expensive review was a stalling tactic by a govern ment Loath to move on issues such As self government and economic development on but the fact it exists Means native people can now go to the table with governments and no More he others in Manitoba agreed the report is a potent weapon at the negotiating its quite Clear that theres a determination on the at least in some of the aboriginal Community not to Lay Down and said Law professor Roland attorney general in the former nip Penner said while Little action came out of Man Tobas aboriginal Justice inquiry an Exten Sive review of the plight of native Peoples in this province which made recommendations similar to some unveiled yesterday it was completed in a different launched in 1988 following the shooting death of Harper by a Winnipeg police the inquiry warned that settlement of treaty rights and the establishment of self government were crucial to leading aboriginal people out of their social and economic i think in some ways there has been some change in the climate since the release of the in that the strength of the aboriginal Politi Cal movement has Penner and activist Terry a councillor with the Roseau River first said canadians can also look for More acts of civil disobey but the country should worry about its economic health if the costs related to the social troubles Are allowed to continue in Many it is just a matter of Mathebat they the birth rate in aboriginal communities far outstrips the general population the commis Sion projected it will grow from this year to just Over a million in the year 2016 and so the costs of health and other programs will by the commissions aboriginal unemployment and other social costs take billion a year out of the Canadian these costs Are estimated to increase to billion by the Cost of All aboriginal programs paid by All Levels of government totalled billion this a Price tag expected to Rise to Bil lion in 20 the commission believes its if can reduce the social and eco nomic Gap Between aboriginals and non Borig finals by 50 per cent Over 20 the greater peril comes from the fact that the aboriginal population is increasing at a rapid rate and the social problems surrounding the Dis Mal circumstances in which so Many of them live will Penner Canada cannot afford to continue mend ing and feeding the growing population of aboriginal people who come from communities that have unemployment rates upwards of 90 per Nelson and unless unsettled treaty rights Are acted there will be More unrest in the form of disruption to the logging and transportation of goods taken from natural Bon rating agencies have warned All Levels of governments that their credit ratings Are threatened by the rising aside from the mind numbing statistics on Wel health and incarceration Nelson citizens in centres such As Winnipeg know the direct Impact of an impoverished peo when the White people Are scared in their Homes that native people Are going to come and break Down their that when the economic pressure is Penner said he feels confrontations such As those seen at Gustafson and Are ultimately but the report will give an increasingly sophisticated native political movement More ammunition when entering negotiations with governments for settlement of outstanding grief he Assembly of Manitoba chiefs grand chief Phil Fontaine told a news conference in Dauphin yesterday that aboriginals will make sure the report int its an outstanding report and we support in the Short it might 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