Beverley McLachlin

: This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone Beverly McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, delivers a speech in Ottawa on Feb. 5, 2013, according to Globe and Mail. THE CANADIAN PRESSMultimedia Unity, diversity and cultural genocide: Chief Justice McLachlin complete speech Video Video: Canada attempted ‘cultural genocide’ on aboriginals: Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin The challenge is to revolutionize attitudes, in a race against time that native Canadians are losing. But if the next generation of First Nations people are to live free, independent and prosperous lives, we will need change beyond even the 94 recommendations of Justice Murray Sinclair. Bob Rae, a former Ontario premier and federal Liberal leader, put it well in this newspaper, Tuesday, when he wrote: The path ahead is not just about politics, it is a change of heart and mind that starts with each and every one of us. It also means aboriginal leaders who place the nursing of grievance above the needs of members of their communities who depend on them, who refuse to accept the reality that there are only 330,000 people living on reserve and 34.6 million living off it, who ignore the 280,000 immigrants – almost the equivalent of the entire on-reserve population – who arrive in Canada each year. Each and every one of us means non-aboriginal Canadians who fail to respect the sovereignty and integrity of the First Nations, who disown the damage inflicted on native culture by generations of European settlers and their descendants, who elect and re-elect federal and provincial governments of all political stripes that feel no compulsion to put native issues at the forefront of their agenda. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.