Give land back to Indigenous peoples

Re: “Reparation, land and justice for Indigenous Peoples is overdue,” commentary, July 16.

David Suzuki’s commentary is fine, except that the reparations he speaks of are all monetary.

What Indigenous peoples had was access to land; we took that away. Just as we currently aim to preserve 30 per cent of Canada’s natural landscapes, we should return 30 per cent of Canada’s landmass and adjacent seas to Indigenous control.

We might then have a fair country, in both meanings of the word.

Doug Porteous Victoria