
The playbook on how to sow discord among native groups in Canada may well have been borrowed from Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince: divide and conquer. Throughout Harper’s tenure, the Conservatives have continually introduced confusing, complicated, and contentious bills that sparked revolts like the Idle No More movement. Most recently, the government must have known when it tabled legislation about aboriginal education with little to no First Nations consultation that it would cause outrage. But that didn’t stop them. No, what was made clear at a special chiefs assembly held in Ottawa to discuss the issue is that, if nothing else, Bill C-33 was designed to draw a line in the sand and cause division among First Nations. That realization may well have contributed to the chiefs' decision to reject the bill entirely this week.
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