Uncomfortable reading and viewing - Apartheid in Canada?

Susan Delacourt tweeted: If you can only read one column today, http://bit.ly/s8iB9J by @ChantalHbert, on Jekyll&Hyde government. Hyde side isn't pretty. #cdnpoli

I read the column and am grateful for the recommendation from Delacourt. I agree. This is a must read: Hébert: Expanded Parliament, better governance? Not likely

Canada: Apartheid Nation?
I also came across a few YouTube videos on the subject of Attawapiskat and First Nations living conditions. Coming from South Africa and having lived through apartheid days, albeit as a White Umlungu, it hits a raw nerve for me when people equate what is happening here in Canada with apartheid in South Africa. There was lots of inequality in the world in the days of apartheid. What made apartheid so repulsive and odious was the fact that the inequality was enshrined in the laws of the land. If the law cannot protect a statistically significant proportion of the general population identified, in the case of Canada, as First Nation then one could make a case for apartheid. I don't know enough about it to make a judgement, but watching these videos it seems one could make a case for calling this apartheid.

I'm not going to blame the Conservatives alone although their current performance is worse than pathetic - possibly criminal. This is clearly something that has been piling up for decades. First Nations issues have been conspicuously absent from all the Federal elections since I have been eligible to vote. It's always been about the economy. Ingrid and I were listening to a talk show in the car today. The talk show host mentioned that poverty is not only in the "remote" communities and wondered aloud who was remote; is it the people on Hudson Bay, or us?

Canada: Apartheid Nation (2011 - Official Trailer)
"Canada: Apartheid Nation" is a documentary short which sheds light on the devastating situation that many Northern First Nations people in Canada are forced to live in.
Canada: Apartheid Nation





ATTAWAPISKAT HOUSING-CRISIS - Charlie Angus
Footage from November 2011 site visit by MP Charlie Angus.