Subject: "Drawing the Line - Property Rights and the Aboriginal Question" by Robert Metz

Thank you for providing this essay. In BC, I work endlessly toward the goals espoused in this essay. My immediate rewards usually come in the form of verbal abuse and criticism from the Indian leaders who stand to reap the rewards of continued land claims industry machinations. The more long term rewards come in the form of the quieter thanks and support I receive from those Indians who, like myself, choose to live in modern day Canada. Please keep sharing this vision; the self respect of an entire race of people depends on the courage of those who will thwart the current crop of Indian 'leaders'.

- Deb Logan, bcsga3@island.net, January 1, 1997

Thank you for your encouragement. The essay in question was originally written as a brief to the Reform Party of Canada's Aboriginal Affairs Task Force on February 26, 1995, and was received quite warmly. Unfortunately, as you have clearly illustrated, there are still political interests who benefit from what you have appropriately called the 'land claims industry.' They want no part of any vision that would suggest all Canadians, aboriginal and non-aboriginal alike, work together to get the government to entrench private property rights for all.

Anyone interested in 'sharing the vision' can find this essay on Freedom Party's world wide web site (Consent #23), or by writing us for a back-issue of Consent #23.