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Exploring Indigenous Issues in Canada

hey Canada I'm wob canoe I know I'm not your boyfriend but wouldn't mind being your man on the side but for this thing to work there's five things you're going to have to stop saying about my people first thing alcohol the big thing that separates us here isn't the alcohol it's a poverty because when a non-native person passes out they do it at a curling club or at a Nickelback concert but when a native person does they do it on the street which is shameful but also comfortable then there's this whole idea of get over it you know why don't you guys just get over it you know what I am over it my dad was raped in a residential school by a nun I'm over it but it doesn't mean that we should forget it then there's the long hair thing you know some Aboriginal people do wear their hair long as a symbol of cultural Pride those are the natives with beautiful long straight hair for curly hair to jibway such as myself hair clippers have been the greatest invention of the white man since the mirror then I often hear this question what are you guys doing with the $7 billion $7 billion we give Indian Affairs what are you guys doing with it you know what that money has to pay for a population the same size as New Brunswick you know what New Brunswick spends on their population $8 billion and yet I never hear Canadians ask hey New Brunswick what are you doing with your $8 billion finally one of your favorites taxes guess what I'm a status Indian I pay income tax I pay sales tax I once even paid a land transfer tax ironic it's all part of a much larger stereotype that I original people in Canada are getting a free ride 140 years after the treaties we're still waiting for the things that we were promised in those agreements to share the land so I ask you who's really getting the Free Ride [Applause]