Guided Democracy Process definition
Guided Democracy Process on the other hand means that the worker will approach the community with a set of goals pre-determined (not self-deter- mined) by a government not constitutionally formed by nor agreed to by the (native) "client community". The aim is not to "enable" the community to achieve an equal political awareness so as to be able to negotiate constitutional political development with non-native southern people; it is, rather, to "guide", "train", or "educate" the native community to carry out functions which have a/ready been determined as "Canadian" so that the community may play an "appropriate" part, or a "full" part, or simply a "part" in a "Canada" already constituted by the English and French as a "bilingual and hi-cultural country". In a nutshell, the issue is between those who believe that aboriginal fights include the right to form a constitutional political jurisdiction and those who believe aboriginal people ought to fit themselves into a French-Engiish Canada or live on a Reserve. The latter need the "Guided Democracy" process; the