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Indian Villagers Set To Battle Alcan

Posted on Monday, July 05 at 13:39 by 4Canada
_____________________________________________ Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star KUCHEIPADAR, India—They are called the "Ugly Canadians"— accused of invading ancestral lands to strip the soil and repatriate the profits to Canada. In a bitter confrontation, one of Canada's biggest multinational mining companies is pitted against India's indigenous peoples who refuse to relinquish their lush jungle territory. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1088806210074&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

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  1. by avatar whelan costen
    Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:29 am
    'Despite "excessive" police force and insufficient resettlement aid, the judicial inquiry concluded that tribal areas "cannot afford to remain backward for the sake of so-called environmental protection," according to a widely leaked cabinet document'

    Quote above from the article, I think says it all; the people know what they want and yet they are told that they don't know what is good for them. How arrogant!

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    If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

  2. by 4Canada
    Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:53 am
    Maybe there's some larger plan to make urban areas the only places we live so that the natural resources can be carted away unnoticed. I can't believe someone going into a foreign land and basically telling the locals "you're uncilivilzed". How many of these displaced people are trained for some other livihood? Not that they should have to be anyway!!! It makes me crazy!!!

  3. by Jim Callaghan
    Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:55 pm
    Unfortunately, this makes Canada look bad when it is corporate power at its worst.

    I find it unthinkable that any corporation has the right to walk into any country and dictate to the citizens of that country.

    There must be some control over this kind of imperialism.

    I am embarrassed that this reflects badly on Canada, but it really has nothing to do with our country.

    This is simply dragging our name through the mud for more wealth !

    Tom D'Aquino would be so pleased !

    I am going to coin a new word.

    It is "corcrap", as in corporation crap, to show the corporations that they are so full of crap and the day will come when we will strip some of their unfair powers away from them.

    Perhaps not in my lifetime, but it will happen !!



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    Jim Callaghan
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    www.misterc.ca



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