Why is it that the minority always gets the most press? An a-hole comes in every race and denomination , native or otherwise. If that weren't the case as fishermen and women we should all be busted for poaching! As gun owners we're all mentally deranged criminals but if you want to go extreme:
A young man inherits a still that was run during the prohibition years by his grandfather and is arrested for having the equipment for illegally producing alcohol.
As he is being sentenced the judge asks if he has anything to say.
The young man thinks for a moment and says, "Well your Honour, if I'm going to jail for this then you had better ad rape to the list of charges."
The judge looks at him and says,"Young man! Are you admitting to Rape?!"
The young man replies, "No your Honour, but I sure as hell have the equipment!"
You can find a way to label people any way you want to if you look hard enough.
Regardless of whether the government wants to feel guilty for the fact we won the war with the natives when the country was settled, it will be called Stanley Park until all of the people who grew up calling it that are dead and a new name could actually take effect. In the mean time they'll spend millions getting all of the tourism brochures reprinted, the TV ads redone, the signage changed etc., etc.
What do they care, it's only tax payers money.
I say we'd be happy to change the name, but all related costs involved in doing so will be coming out of the Native settlement and Treaty funds. How long do you think they'd want the name changed if They had to pay for it?
