First Nations Land Under Threat From New Marriage Laws

Laws that protect Canadian couples in the event of a breakup were extended to First Nation communities last month when the Matrimonial Real Property Act (MRPA) came into effect. But critics say it’s just another move toward dismantling First Nation communities.
In pushing this bill to become law, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said, “It is unacceptable in this day and age that people living on reserve are not afforded the same rights and protections as those living off reserve.”

“It’s all just optics. It makes white people feel good about themselves,” said activist and Aboriginal lawyer, Joan Jack.
And she says it’s a slippery slope from the MRPA to privatizing reserve land.
“It’s not about giving people rights, it’s about money. Because there’s no money coming from the federal government for housing for infrastructure. So therefore they need to turn everything into (private) lands so people can borrow money from the bank, build a house, build a driveway and the government doesn’t have to pay for anything,” Jack said. “It’s about assimilation.”


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As the two previous posts have pointed out, 1) we are all people (One World-One People) and 2) diversity is important (The Politics Of Food).
This post points out the necessity of capitalism to commodify everything in order to keep profits rolling in. Is this what the world's people want, or would they prefer to celebrate and protect their diversity, the diversity of their food, their traditions, their culture, their humanity? Socialism, as a system, has a principle to de-commodify everything - to put decisions and policy making into the hands of the vast majority who, after all, are the ones affected by those decisions and policies.
 JS