In response to Jim Car’s ‘colonial concept of “development” WFP 11.4.13
Jim Carr, president of the Business Council of Manitoba, starts his column ‘As province goes south, look north’ - WFP 11.4.13, with inspiring rhetoric about Manitoba’s future. I heard Carr speak a month ago and he still seems to be locked into a last century concept of exploitation of resources and people. Of course his words - “Developing the north’s resources will not be possible without full partnership with the people who live there, mostly aboriginals..” are very nice, but then he continues on and on about ‘development’ in the same colonial mindset that has done nothing in the long run for either Manitoba or its people. Read the rest of this entry »
