Stephen Hume: Harper turns 863,000 Canadians into second-class citizens

A First Nations teenager full of the righteous zeal of youth once pulled nationalistic rank on me while we sat around a fire drinking camp tea. The late Chief Dan George intervened. He asked the kid how old he was, then he asked me how old I was — six years older than the teenager — then he told the kid with straight-faced irony: “He’s been here longer than you have.”