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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.

So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is debatable, but not the subject of this column.

What we're concerned about is the disastrous side-effects this law, clearly dratted for southern cities, will have in the North.

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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.

So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is debatable, but not the subject of this column.

What we're concerned about is the disastrous side-effects this law, clearly dratted for southern cities, will have in the North.

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There's no doubt there's a problem on the mean streets of Canada's inner cities. Drug rings, violent crime, youth crime -- anyone who reads a paper is aware of it. Things are happening there that we only used to hear about from Detroit and New York.

So the Liberal government has decided to get tough with criminals. Whether Allan Rock's new gun law will help or not is debatable, but not the subject of this column.

What we're concerned about is the disastrous side-effects this law, clearly dratted for southern cities, will have in the North.

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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of

escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into

criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.

The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take

into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in

Canada's remote Native communities, he said. Their way of life becomes

against the law.

Gull joins Aboriginal leaders from across the county in their

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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of

escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into

criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.

The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take

into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in

Canada's remote Native communities, he said. Their way of life becomes

against the law.

Gull joins Aboriginal leaders from across the county in their

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Gun-control laws designed to solve the southern urban problem of

escalating violent crime will turn the people of the North into

criminals, said Attawapiskat First Nation chief Ignace Gull.

The laws proposed by federal Justice Minister Allan Rock do not take

into consideration the needs and traditions of the people who live in

Canada's remote Native communities, he said. Their way of life becomes

against the law.

Gull joins Aboriginal leaders from across the county in their

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In her dreams, Mary Ellen Turpel is a hawk soaring in an open blue sky

above the Canadian wilderness.

Soaring to great heights is something Turpel, Canada's most

accomplished Aboriginal lawyer, has done most of her 32 years.

Just check her curriculum vitae. Head legal negotiator at age 29, for

the Assembly of First Nations during the 1992 talks that led to the

Charlottetown accord. Harvard and Cambridge graduate. Winner of

scholarships and awards.

Quite a list, except Turpel isn't all that crazy about discussing her

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Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government

of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own

agenda.

"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact

finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian

Chiefs.

"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin) is hitting the road to get

the appropriate response face-to-face with Native leaders. He's just

saying 'Come on, you Indians, this is what we'd like to see."

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Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government

of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own

agenda.

"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact

finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian

Chiefs.

"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin) is hitting the road to get

the appropriate response face-to-face with Native leaders. He's just

saying 'Come on, you Indians, this is what we'd like to see."

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Native leaders across the country are accusing the federal government

of orchestrating future self-government policies to suit their own

agenda.

"(The government isn't) getting the appropriate response from the fact

finder forums," says Saul Terry, president of the Union of B.C. Indian

Chiefs.

"... so (Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin) is hitting the road to get

the appropriate response face-to-face with Native leaders. He's just

saying 'Come on, you Indians, this is what we'd like to see."