All people, regardless of their race, gender or spirituality have basic human rights. Here in Canada, everyone has the basic right to free education up to the completion of high school. Post secondary education then becomes an option. Many of you have indicated that as Aboriginal youth today in the year 2000, we have more opportunity to go onto post-secondary education, and that we are therefore taking measures to educate ourselves. Educating ourselves in order to ensure our people as a whole are moving forward, and are advancing as a society.
Aboriginal youth have considerably MORE opportunities.
563 Votes Many of you have spoken of education as key to resolving the issues that are important to US, today , as youth struggling with what our forefathers left us, how we will utilize these tools for a better future, and most importantly, being able to choose that future. Equality, though, can also be based on perception. The Speaker related a conversation with one of her patients. She was puzzled. This sort of thinking troubles me.