text: If this article had been written on the first of April I might have had more respect for it. Instead I find a mismash of the usual and tired refrain that "all things indigenous good" "all things non-indigenous bad". The author needs to get out more. Has he never heard of Galileo, Werner Heisenberg, Isaac Newton, Claude Monet, Leonhard Euler, or Molière? (and that only includes a few of the geniuses from my own European heritage.) Aboriginal "leaders" in this country have a small window now to figure out how they will join modern Canada and benefit from the opportunities it offers to all its citizens, irrespective of race and cultural background. As immigration changes the ethnic make-up of this country at an accelerating pace, how does the author with this naive narrative think his future will cope with hundreds of thousands of mandarin-speaking immigrants from mainland China? To quote just one example of the forces molding Canada going  forward.