http://canadiandimension.com/articles/1718
"This migration phenomenon is directly connected to the harsh socio-economic realities our people face if they choose to stay in one of the more than 630 apartheid-style Indian reserves that were created by the racist Indian Act policy of the 1800s.
Many people do not understand that attached to Canada’s shameful apartheid reservation system is a national economic development policy that disproportionately sites the most harmful forms of development on or near our Indian communities. If you take a map of all Indian communities in Canada, and then overlay a map representing the siting of all of the mega-hydro, oil and gas, mining and forestry developments, pipelines and transmission lines, you will see that most of these industries operate within fifty kilometres of a First Nation or an Inuit or Metis settlement. This has led to a situation of environmental racism and cultural genocide. In many of our communities, unemployment rates reach staggering levels in excess of seventy per cent during winter months. Most of our people face limited opportunities if they stay home, and, as a result, many leave to find opportunities in one of Canada’s many urban centres.
Out of Canada’s 1.8 million Aboriginal peoples, 75 per cent are under the age of thirty, which means that we are in the midst of a profound generational shift of power. By 2016, one out of every four people in Canada’s workforce will be a Native person. This group has more capacity than any other generation before us in terms of colonial analysis and education. Many of our Indigenous prophecies speak about this time we live in, including the prophecy of my own people, which talks of a seventh generation born free of the colonial mind. Children born in the seventh generation are ready to step up and assert their right to community self-determination."