text: "This controversy continued into 2017, a year that, for Indigenous people, marks 150 years of colonial oppression. As the Canadian government unrolled its Canada 150 budget and agenda, Indigenous people across the country recoiled. Canada “150”? Really? To suggest that this country didn’t exist for us before 1867 is a punch to the gut – a half-billion-dollar, year-long celebration that hammers home the message, over and over again, that Canada depends on our erasure.'
  
  In my opinion, this is absolute codswallop....Let's assist those Indigenous Canadians who need a helping hand in order to become self sufficient so that they can prosper in the 21st century....for those others who wish to wallow in their perpetual self-pity and victimization, so be it....I am fed up with this nonsense...and I am an Indigenous Canadian....