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Originally Posted by dleung
As much as I love the idea of Canada with a thriving, autonomous indigenous realm, associated cultural, architectural, culinary influence on us and our cities, and vast lands for preserving ancient ways of life... it's way too late for that. There is zero charm in casinos, mega malls on farmland, free-for-all zoning/land use in urban land, unregulated commercial fishing with modern vessels, "reserves" populated with suburban houses clad in vinyl siding, and the very expensive advocacy industry.
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It is a big country with very different situations. Many but not all first nations communities on the coast are small communities in very isolated places.
I think a good starting point is to create a system of government that permits local self-governance with respect to local issues.
If there is any group (native or not) that wants to own communal property and setup an internal mechanism of self-governance why not stay out the way and let that happen. During earlier parts of our history we were open to immigrant groups that did just that. For some first nations community that may very well be what "self-governance" means.
For other communities it means individual land ownership by members of the community and something similar to what we think of as a municipal government.
As for "unregulated" urban development, well you just need to look at at a community such as Victoria where there is 15 different municipal governments all doing their own thing. This is no a first nations issue, this is an urban development issue.