John Ralston Saul in conversation with Allan Gregg

John Ralston Saul on Canada's aboriginal and metis roots.

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[jpat911]

John Ralston Saul is the bomb

[bin1127]

Saul thinks deeply before writing anything. Canada should be proud to have a humanist like him.

[lasonyalafevers]

nice guys

[ajames95]

Where are the "aboriginals" in Canada today? If Europeans loved the multitude of civilizations, why did they send the indigenous kids to internment schools? Could young indigenous men marry the european daughters, not just vice versa? If this BS is all true, why is your economic policy skewed? Aren't you in the G20? Get off your high horse, if your claims were true you wouldn't be raping your environment. Wow, white guys fucking native girls made a new race, you really are gods! He's a jackass!

[bahramf]

"we are the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world."

I'm guessing 'continuous' is the key term which makes that seemingly false statement true.

[docsunsand]

amazing human being , very intelligent and eloquent

[alanpater]

Provocative title, but go read Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright. First-nations were everything except primitive.

[mrazino]

(Cont.) To make a far-reaching assumption that this kind of social interaction can be some sort of a model for current problems, facing Canada is huge huge stretch.

[mrazino]

First-nation societies were essentially of hunter-gatherer type, prime examples of primitive communism. They were not aware not only of the wheel, but such things as property, individual rights, state, cities, etc. At the same time, European settlers in Canada were not interested in any type of conquest. It didn't make any economic sense, as for 250 years, they lived as merchants, employing aboriginals as the fur-trade employees.

[notendo1]

str8 up

[treehamallama]

whats the difference between charles ralston saul and this guy, are they the same? because i heard "The Missing Conversation" on CBC, and they said "charles" but this must be him because on the radio he was also talking about aboriginals.