CURRENT EVENTS

Numerous communities and Canadians at large are disgruntled that the federal government believes their proposed firearms legislation believes will affect illegal firearms smuggled into Canada.

"Federal gun bill shows Liberals 'out of touch' with Nunavut, says MP"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/lori-idlout-c21-gun-bill-communities-1.6725087

Idlout, at far right, and Nunavut Environment Minister David Akeeagok, far left, meet with community members in Arctic Bay this week. (Lori Idlout/Twitter)

It is not a coincidence that the Liberal government under Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was responsible for the following atrocities.

This initiative to limit Indigenous rights is not new as we know from the residential schools atrocities but the interference in the lives of First Nations goes deeper.

An Inuit builds an igloo near Canada's Village Baker Lake. WHITE FOX

My class interviewed an RCMP Corporal who was involved in forcing Indigenous families off the land into villages. The move destroyed their culture since following nature's cycle was now unavailable. Previously the group fished, gathered bird eggs, hunted seals and were well and healthy. After the forced move, they sat around kitchen tables, tried to learn how to use a stove and refrigerator. The absurdity and the corporal's ignorance/arrogance was not lost on the students.

Here is a National Film Board production of the sadness.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/broken_promises_-_the_high_arctic_relocation/