Hi Ben My name is JJ.
I just wanted to ask you a question on a topic
that I've never heard you address before and
it's an issue that's kind of big in Canada
as well as the U.S. and that's the issue of
Indian reservations.
I was just kind of curious as to what your
general perspective is on them at a philosophical
level.
Do you think there are good or bad things.
Do you think there's not more power or less
power.
What's your just general take on them.
So I mean this has been an issue a little
bit the United States obviously not to the
same extent as it has been in Canada.
Little know little bit about Canada but not
a tremendous amount.
So I'll speak in the U.S. context which I
know a little bit better.
You know when you sign a treaty with a with
a group of folks who you forcibly expelled
from their land it seems to me only fair to
allow them to govern their land as they see
fit.
With that said I think that we should make
it a lot easier for folks to leave Native
American reservations if they want to.
I don't think that we should be forcibly taking
children out of non reservation areas and
returning them to reservations as has happened
a couple of times in the United States.
And you know I think with freedom of movement
and the freedom of movement in trying to offer
more opportunity to folks inside reservations
I think that a lot of those folks to be better
off leaving those reservations but that's
an individual choice for them to make.
I think that you know delegating that authority
down to local levels is probably the best
available solution.
