First Nations in Improving the Canadian Economic Standard: Benefits of Regionalized Profit Sharing

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Joel Benoit

First Nations in Improving the Canadian Economic Standard: Benefits of Regionalized Profit Sharing

Argument Reasoning: Localizing domesticated products through financing of First Nations industry keeps revenues segmented nationally. Internalized profits distributed in Canada through First Nations businesses have greater localized revenue sharing capacity, stimulating regional economic growth.

The ‘Native Discourse’

First Nations discourses exist greatly in due part of unbalanced business practices, disproportionally financing regional profit shares of natural resource revenues for First Nations on traditional territory where natural resources are extracted.

Underlining principles of ‘balance’ and sustainable practice in Native American culture is slowly being phased out of Canadian culture through assimilative practices, directly deterring economic lifestyle equilibrium for Native Americans.

Some would argue that First Nations should give up their culture, to be unleashed into American society, out of the reserves, letting industrial nature take its course.  Proven improved localized development strategies in prioritizing local cultures is fundamental to urban planning in offering heritage appeal for visitors and residents. Native American culture exists as distinct to North America and nowhere else globally; a characteristic definable in North American history and should be preserved for this purpose as well.

The reserve system is failing in attempts to reviving an old cultural way of life, yet it is the only way to legislate the inherent right to preserve identity and genotype. Native Americans were nearly killed off unjustifiably by poor governmental management and lack of business etiquette: compensation must be inherent.

Reviving the once tall, dark, peaceful, beautiful Indian once afflicted with disease, mass killing, white assimilation and residential schools are now victims of too much TV, alcohol and fast food. A lifestyle retrofitted for government intervention to create jobs to resolve.

These stereotypes have taken hold and for many Native Americans hardship has become the ‘norm’.  In this regard, growing prosperous leaders has had many difficulties.

Achieving complete self reliance is hard to achieve when confronted with arduous educational matters and lack of respect for Aboriginal Title - a title that was supposed to establish First Nations, instead a tool to profile a suffering vulnerable people.

American Resource Rhetoric

American economic practices in resource usages have altered earth’s biological functionality, offsetting the normal ecosystem mechanism to properly sustain human existence as well as other earth species.

A Native Economy?

Misconceptions rooted in that First Nations have benefited whole heartedly from natural resource prospects seem to neglect the deterring living quaity of status Natives. Positive outcomes are fair but few. Statically speaking, the statuses of First Nations have not entirely improved at the rate politicians would exemplify.

The truth is, there is no economic basis in most Native communities yet prosperous economic activity exists just outside of many Native communities.

With this in mind, its evident that its hard enough for many Native Americans to get a job at anyone of Canada’s many resource companies using their own traditional territory with menial entitlements to ownership.

The Bedouin that roamed the deserts of the Middle East and Africa, the newly established billionaires of the world, reaped vast wealth from oil and establishing boundaries and landownership; the same inherent right that was entirely stripped away for Native Americans.

Natives have been excluded from the global economy where governments and corporations have profited from using their traditional lands. Lands on traditional territories are being sold with little gains at the federal/provincial level and local at the First Nation level: the precedence to my argument that national economic gains are to be met in establishing localized First Nation owned business thereby increasing living standards to normalize with advanced societies – these issues are relative to one another.

First Nations have justified again and again that they used this land and it was sovereign under written laws and common understands amongst other First Nations. Examples through locations of pictographs, artefacts and oral histories that predate European contact.

Contributions by First Nations have come under great scrutiny and still seek the recognition in aiding Europeans in finding food sources, navigate water systems and sharing their land with the First Europeans in the new world of sharing and respect.

Colonialist justified their position as protectorates of the land from other colonial nations, First Nations owing a sovereign debt for technology paying it back through giving up land ownership rights; technology First Nations have not learnt or established in learning to create or produce.

This criticism has an underlining general meaning for Canadians overall as our manufacturing sector is lacking capacity and lagging in its own technological advancement, being more accustomed for purchasing.

There is no denying the facts in our lack of knowledge accommodation for First Nations:

·         First Nations Labour force participation is at 57%, well below that of all Canadians 68%.

·         19% of inmates in federal penile institutions are Aboriginal people (rising to 49% in Manitoba and 72% in Saskatchewan provincial institutions).

·         Tuberculosis and diabetes are 3 times high amongst Aboriginal peoples.

·         Suicide respectably is anywhere between 2 to 7 times higher in First Nations and Inuit communities.

·         In 1996, 18.6% of First Nations houses were occupied more then one per room, 1.7% for houses in Canada.

There are limited examples of differences in improved living standard as First Nations still have the poorest health levels in Canada: shorter life spans, experience more violence, more accidental deaths, have higher infant mortality and suffer more from chronic disease.

Canada’s entire economic strategy would not have reached present day scales without the Government seizing resources from the ancestral lands of First Nations.

Despite these sets backs, First Nations must remember it was agreed through the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples that land resources between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people would be distributed evenly and that First Nations would become self-sufficient without government aid.

It is this promise of self-sufficiency that First Nations seemingly have to bid for with resource companies.

Financial stability for First Nations is the end goal of treaty negotiations where the government is to be holding precedence affirmed in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

Building accountable governance structures to implement education access and through established employment opportunities. Only through accelerated strategic economic development to maximize First Nations governance will the rest of Canada truly reap the benefits of the Native peoples of Canada.