Sentences with phrase «destroy traditional ways of life»

Those who support the bill are being called radicals and being accused of trying to destroy traditional ways of life and end all animal consumption in Canada.

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In the mid-1970s he argued passionately that the proposed construction of a pipeline across the traditional homeland of the Dene people before the settlement of their land claims would destroy their way of life as well as damage the natural environment of the region.

It was effected in a range of ways: sheer force; the removal of children from their families; the withdrawal of «permissive occupancy» because titles to traditional lands had been granted to others and Aboriginal people no longer provided a useful pool of cheap labour; in many cases people were induced to move «voluntarily» to settlements and missions simply to gain access to food and basic services as competing land use destroyed the resource base of traditional life.