Political Science Civil Rights
First Nations? Second Thoughts
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2000
- Category
- Civil Rights
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773520707
- Publish Date
- Apr 2000
- List Price
- $32.95
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- ISBN
- 9780773534445
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
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- $29.95
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- ISBN
- 9780773534438
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
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- $125.00
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- ISBN
- 9780773558533
- Publish Date
- Oct 2019
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- 9780773558557
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- Oct 2019
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Description
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on Aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees Aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy a cornucopia of legal privileges, including rights to self-government beyond federal and provincial jurisdiction, immunity from taxation, court decisions reopening treaty issues settled long ago, the right to hunt and fish without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care as well as other economic benefits. Underpinning these privileges is what Flanagan describes as Aboriginal orthodoxy - a set of beliefs that hold that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment; that Aboriginal peoples are part of sovereign nations endowed with an inherent right to self-government; that Aboriginals must have collective rather than individual property rights; that all treaties must be renegotiated on a "nation-to-nation" basis; and that Native people should be encouraged to build prosperous "Aboriginal economies" through money, land, and natural resources transferred from other Canadians. In First Nations? Second Thoughts Flanagan combines conceptual analysis with historical and empirical information to show that the Aboriginal orthodoxy is both unworkable and ultimately destructive to the people it is supposed to help.
About the author
Tom Flanagan is Distinguished Fellow in the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. Former director of research for the Reform Party, and former campaign manager for Stephen Harper's Conservative Party, he is the author of Harper's Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power.
Editorial Reviews
"Flanagan's arguments are, without question, the most thoughtful and comprehensive of the critiques of aboriginal policy that have been offered so far ... His views are controversial and, whether or not you agree with him, there is a clear need for his arguments to be publicly available and debated." Alan Cairns, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia
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