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In this article, the writer looks at when Elijah Harper's single vote in Manitoba blocked the constitutional reform package known as Meech Lake. The writer maintains that Harper's action elevated the concerns and interests of Canada's First Nations to prominence on the Canadian political scene. The writer points out that while the media celebrated this moment, and can be seen to express sympathy and respect for the peoples of Canada's First Nations and their aspirations, a critical review of media commentary around this time reveals how Aboriginals are effectively marginalized as subordinate "wards" of the state within the Canadian political context.

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"The perspective of the Canadian mass media upon the First Nations of Canada is a complex one which, at one and the same time, mingles respect and sympathy for peoples of the First Nations with a view that these peoples are inevitably "wards" of the Canadian state. The articles selected for analysis focus upon a particular "moment" of historic importance in the history of Canada's First Nations ..."

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