Assimilation ongoing

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Dear Editor:

All people born of First Nations should be considered status, regardless of blood quantum. With Bill C-31, our grandchildren will lose status. This stops our population from increasing.

It is a fine anad dangerous line. Some day the legislation will fulfil the original intent of Indian Affairs. That intent is to assimilate our population and culture into the Canadian mix.

Some feel that Bill C-31 is a legislated form of genocide. They are right.

The answer is quite simple. Either we assimilate non-natives or they assimilate us. There should be no law that tells anyone what they are.

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