We Are All Treaty Chihuahuas

A “suspected Indian status scam”.

When Louis Côté became suspicious of a Toronto-based laboratory that tests people’s DNA to determine their ancestry, he decided to try an experiment by submitting a sample from his girlfriend’s dog for analysis.

 

According to the results, Côté shares more than a friendship with Snoopy the chihuahua; they share the exact same Indigenous ancestry.

 

“I thought it was a joke,” Côté said. “The company is fooling people … the tests are no good.”

As opposed to the one run out of Ottawa.

26 Replies to “We Are All Treaty Chihuahuas”

  1. And I’m “Treaty Rottweiler”… Woof, woof.
    Priceless, thanks for that Kate.

    Prosit!

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

    1. Ha! my immediate first thought EXACTLY.
      Let me adjust an Elizabeth Warren quote in light of this truth.
      “The word’s out: I’m a woman b17ch, and I’m going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. “

      1. Back in day, did a school report on Louis Riel. The local library had an old book written by a descendant of the Selkirk Settlers who was around at the time of the first rebellion. As I remember, there was a fair bit of sympathy for Riel amongst the Selkirk crowd, who didn’t trust the Canadians who were taking over the territory from Britain.

    1. Louis Riel got what was coming to him.
      Following a very fair trial he was convicted of treason and hanged. That’s what they did back then.

      1. no, there was a deal in place to get him back to canuckistan for the trial. the gubbamint reneged on the deal.
        gee, where have I seen that before?
        ‘treason’ is subjective. does it include the founding fathers?

  2. The problem with endowing preferred rights on groups of people based on race is that race becomes a commodity. Everyone will try to cash in on the preferred victim group of the week. What’s more, in Canada, the whole question of native status becomes absurd, given the historical proclivity of French, Native, and Scottish people to intermarry. I figure that by this point in time about 3/4 of “white” Canadians have a surprisingly high percentage of indigenous genes.

    In any case, the current status quo is not sustainable, given the demographic trends in Indigenous communities, where population growth is off the charts.At some point, Indigenous Canadians, (I refuse to say “Aboriginal”) are going to either have to be reduced to the status of “merely” Canadian, or go it on their own as a separate nation.

  3. My future son in Law claims 50% First Nations ancestry. So my future grandchildren will get their own Lakefront properties!! (I believe their 25% Native ancestry will qualify for their benefits) Woo hoo !! Now I have a place for my retirement!! Good to know their pets will receive the same benefits.

    1. There was a well publicized murder case not all that long ago and the primary evidence for conviction was a beer can with the accused’s DNA on it. To convict the jury had to believe the beer can came from the crime scene and not the accused’s home. RCMP did the investigation. Some people still believe the RCMP are honest – go figure.

  4. Ancestry says I’m all European. Why can’t I have a Treaty Card? Discrimination or what?

  5. Only useless D bags believe in group rights.
    Anyone who advocates for group rights should be caned.
    Natives who need to claim status so they don’t have to pay for sh!t the rest of us have to pay for are D bags.

  6. The scam is not the bogus Indian cards. The scam is a system that gives one group of people within our society special rights based on some notion of hereditary status. The Indian act needs to go for more than one reason.

  7. Off topic to a great degree: While working on the book Gananoque Remembers (a book honouring the men on the Gan cenotaph), I noticed that Pte Harry Brown, VC, had, as you all say, the “cheekbones”. His father was born in Quebec and his mother’s family had come from Quebec – Leger (which became Ledger in Gan) and Leveque (which became Bishop in Gan). I found a Quebec website which enabled me to go back as far as his metis – not sure if it was 2 or 3 gr-grandmother – and I could have continued on back to the original native female relative. Wish I had but I was busy with another book (Book of Letters from the Front) as he would be the only “native” to win the Victoria Cross.

    1. I’m guessing there is a lot of Indian blood flowing through pure laine veins. White women were pretty rare in 1608 in Quebec and Frenchmen aren’t renowned for their chastity..

      1. Yep, that’s the era when one of my ancestors hooked up with an Indian woman, probably half the French guys in the area did the same. There were no sheep around yet.
        I have to LOL at this, another brilliant idea from some pandering politicians comes back to bite them on the a$$.
        Especially like the tale of the person who avoided over $30,000 in taxes for a renovation using his phony Indian card.

        Two great Canadian values, equality and diversity on display once again.

        Personally, I’d be happy with never having to apply for an LEH again.

  8. Really, this should not be a shock. An entire system was set up on the basis of race and rewards people on the basis of racial/ethnic origin (Hitler must be proud). Of course people would scam and cheat.

    Dogs wouldn’t do that, though.

    Unless it was for a hot dog but that’s different.

  9. You don’t see the potential for this. If everyone claims to be indigenous, and can back it up with DNA tests, then everybody qualifies for tax exemptions. If you’re into lowering taxes for everybody, this is one way to do it. 🙂

    Of course, there’s the small flaw that without adequate tax funding the system will collapse in on itself. But you could argue that, given the poor state of the system as it is, that will happen sooner or later anyways.

    1. “Once everyone becomes an Indian”

      I wish. I’m a pensioner and I still work. I rarely drink and I absolutely don’t do drugs. I wouldn’t fit in.

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