We Are All Treaty People

19 Replies to “We Are All Treaty People”

1. Give them a couple months notice and just cut them off. Trudeau will come up with the cash. Why should a have-not province like Manitoba have to support freeloaders who are federal responsibility?

2. Silly white eyes … the Native Peoples have been living on the great Manitoban turtles back for all of time. Drinking deeply from the flowing streams, rivers, and lakes as a gift from the great animal gods. Now, the white eyes come along and demand payment (as a middle man) for the land’s bounty. I guess it is time to enter the white eyes courts and tell the powdered wig that the turtle god GIVES water and that no man (white man) can demand payment. However, the great turtle demands the white eyes must LOSE their paper $$$ in the turtles casinos. Your white eyes rules are meaningless to our peoples.
   And if you think this is parody … just wait.

3. Well, I’m not of colour, I know what sex I am, I’m not of a special interest, ethnicity, creed or belief system. The only thing the Canadian Government has ever wanted me to do is STFU and pay taxes. Thats it. and they talk about equality, justice and democracy. Absolute BS

4. $25 Billion debt in Manitoba?
   “The board’s review indicates that both Bipole III and Keeyask are behind schedule, expected to be over budget and the corporation’s debt is expected to nearly double to $25 billion within the next three or four years. The previous government’s decision to have Manitoba Hydro pursue simultaneous capital spending on projects of this size and scope now threatens the bottom line of the province of Manitoba and our relationship with bond rating agencies across North America,”
   http://mytoba.ca/featured/manitoba-hydro-debt-doubling-25-billion/
   $23 Billion debt in Manitoba?
   “The decision to apply for the proposed 7.9 per cent rate increase is a necessary step mandated by the serious financial situation the MHEB found following our appointment last year and is a direct result of capital investment decisions on the Keeyask and Bipole projects that seriously overextended Hydro’s financial position. Keeyask is currently projected to exceed budget by $2.2 billion and the decision to use the west-side Bipole III route increased the cost of that project by an estimated $1 billion. These decisions have placed Manitoba Hydro’s debt trajectory on what one ratings agency has already described as an “unsustainable” path. With the completion of these capital projects, Manitoba Hydro’s debt will have grown from $11 billion to at least $23 billion, an increase of more than 100 per cent. This is a legacy debt that all Manitobans will be responsible for paying.”
   https://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/news_media/news/2017-05-05-statement-from-the-manitoba-hydro-electric-board-on-hydro-rate-application.shtml
   and of course, the NDP answer to this, from 2015:
   “Manitoba Hydro’s mounting debt is behind the provincial government’s move to change the balanced-budget law so it doesn’t include the results of Crown corporations, Premier Greg Selinger said.”
   https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/taking-hydro-out-of-the-equation-306360751.html
   Or is that a $50 Billion debt in Manitoba?
   “Manitoba Hydro originally wanted to build the transmission line along the east side of Lake Winnipeg. But the NDP government in 2007 ordered the utility to reroute the line far to the west, largely to preserve a stretch of boreal forest on the east side.
   That made the line much longer and added roughly $1 billion to the project’s cost, the report said.
   It also noted that the Keeyask dam, also pushed by the former government, is being built several years in advance of its energy being needed.
   Riley called that decision reckless and said both projects will push the combined debt of the government and Manitoba Hydro to more than $50 billion, or 60 per cent of the province’s gross domestic product.
   He said it leaves Manitoba “with no cushion.”
   http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/route-for-manitoba-hydroelectric-project-mistake-that-can-t-be-changed-review-1.3082010
   Who’s numbers should we believe? How about looking at Hydro Manitoba’s past performance on cost estimates:
   page 25 here:
   http://www.manitobaforward.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MF01_MBHydroEleph_D4.pdf
   None of the gov’t figures are to be believed, simply take whatever number they use, and either double it or multiply by 4. Depending on how you’re feeling.
   Scathing, is as calm of a word as I can use to describe the report in Manitoba Forward…. take a look at their website. Lots to love, unless you’re an NDP lurker here @ SDA …
   http://www.manitobaforward.ca

5. So,expunge the Bills from the MH books and start over.
   The First Glorious Nations noble savages can’t pay their hydro Bills,and that watchdog and arbiter of all that is right in the world,the UN,is just waiting to pounce on any politicians who mistreat our FIRST NATIONS!
   MH.like every other utility in Canad,has written off millions in unpaid bills and subsidies to cronies,so a write off of a few million to keep the peace with our Glorious First Nations is cheap compared to the international embarrassment this would become.
   Why bother to bill OGFN’s in the first place? Just send the monthly bills straight to the DIAND or whatever acronym they go by these days, and cut out the bureaucratic waste of time.
   btw, now that the Ministry has been split into not one,but two inept suckers each toeing the All-Party line of Indigenous people,which half does MH send the Bill to?

6. The motto for 2017 “It is only a crime when white people do it.”

7. Manitoba has been ruled by NDP Government for 39 of the last 50 years. What could of gone wrong? Selinger was all set to go Maduro on everybody.

8. p.s. and then there are the unions in Manitoba. NDP operatives with immunity.

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   “Subject: Manitoba reservations unpaid MB Hydro bill for years“
   why are our aboriginal brethren “culturally appropriating” the white devil’s
   magic electron juju? surely they can simply live in harmony with mother
   earth as they have been for millennia.
   BONUS ROUND:
   Please… no more of this “oral history” bullshit… Christopher Pauchay
   couldn’t even remember where he left his kids.
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    who is christopher pauchay, you ask?
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11. And what does Manitoba Hydro have to say?
    “Manitoba Hydro is planning capital investments of approximately $15 billion for major new generation and transmission projects over the next 10 to 15 years. These projects will serve the growing needs of Manitoba customers and will ensure a stable, reliable and cost-effective supply of electricity long into the future.”
    Makes you feel warm and fuzzy.

12. Pampering people makes them weak. There is abundant scientific evidence to support this.
    e.g., “Codependent no more” – Amazon

13. If you want to see just how generous the white eyes can be take a gander at what Hydro One, here in Ontario, offers the Indigenous:
    https://www.hydroone.com/about/indigenous-relations
    Ha ha Captcha is GIVE
    Yes indeed until it hurts!

14. Hydro Quebec also can’t collect bills from reserves most of the time.

15. Who cares? They have never paid. They have representation without taxation; why should electricity, or natural gas, or tobacco, or gasoline, or pipelines, or anything, be any different?

16. I cannot fathom MB Hydro disconnecting the power to Native reserves. The CBC would not stand for it! It could even end up at the United Nations resulting in condemnation of Canada by countries such as Iran, Syria, Somalia, Venezuela and on and on. These human rights abuse must stop!

17. It’s called Aboriginal Privilege.

18. Just the tip of the iceberg I’m sure. There are 2 FN’s in the Edmonton area that had their fire services cut off due to unpaid bills over the years.

19. If you talk to anyone from New Brunswick – Hydro Quebec not paying them what their power is worth.