I know I am always "off side" on this file, but I read in amazement about the $121 million handed the Lubicon Lake Reserve because this band refused to sign Treaty 8 way back in 1899. Hello, you did it to yourselves! By not signing, your band of 680 didn't get aboard the federal gravy train and all the while, you have been asking for too much money, which is why it took generations to settle.
Oh, and by the way, as an "insignificant" aside, they're also getting millions more for schools, a new hospital, a new recreation centre.......and on.......and on. We've all seen what new facilities do to improve life on remote reserves. Nothing.
With this money, each band member will be cut a cheque for $177,941. Wonder how they'll spend it? Wonder how their lives will be improved. Don't answer, rhetorical questions. The only answer is to get off the reserve and into mainstream society. But they won't.
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