How did indians survive all those centuries before the federal government ran their lives for them?
You’d think the government would have to send every indian a doctor just to perform CPR on them 24/7 so they wouldn’t have to go through the hassle of breathing on their own.
A bar of soap might be worth looking into.
Do they want us to apply it to their hands as well?? Wipe off the excess for them?
They might not make it to the next bingo game if they had to buy their own. Talk about the give-me population. I suppose all other hygiene products must also be given out for free. Time to get rid of the Indian Act.
Read that the stuff doesn’t really work that well. Simply will not substitute for hand washing with soap for 20 seconds.
Don’t rely on it.
Filed under ‘you can’t have it both ways, chief!’
Yay, Free Everything !!! Socialism on the Road to Communism at its finest. The Govern-mental Provider of Free Everything !!!
But seriously Gunney99 has it bang on “hand washing with soap for 20 seconds”
You might be able to buy it for yourself if you live in southern Canada, but in the dry reserves they aren’t allowed to stock it on the shelves or in the pharmacy.
I think it’s also a factor of the patronizing attitude of Indian Affairs, who stupidly consider that IF a product contains alcohol and IF native reserves have a great deal of alcohol, THEN, the product can’t be shipped to the reserve.
I presume this excludes various medicinal products such as..ahh..calamine lotion, Clinique products, and so on.
And yes, apparently they don’t work that well. But, you’ll still find them everywhere in the halls in hospitals.
Do they assume that someone on the reserve is going to set up a shop to separate the alcohol from the other products in the hand sanitizer and then….?
Editors note:
This comment has been deleted, along with your other comments, due to the misuse of a third party’s identity.
Your ip address 65.93.75.180 has been noted and will be turned over at request should this person seek remedy against you.
Now, I strongly suggest that you find another place to play.
Hmmm … I wonder if the delay is related to the fact that for the sanitizer to effective it must contain at least 30% alcohol … regardless if it is methol or ethol alchol perhaps the concern is they might drink it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
… Duhhhhhhhh just wash your hands with soap !
” … No racists here. No siree…
Posted by: Jennifer Lynch at June 24, 2009 3:46 PM …”
Ah yes … it is racist to tell someone to wash there hands … oh but I forgot the lunatic BC HRC deemed that it was an HR offense for MacDonalds to insist one of their workers wash their hands.
Don’t have basic toiletries? Blame whitey! Drop a kid in Wal-mart? It’s society’s fault! Leave your kids half naked outside in a blizzard? Get a lawyer to lay it on whitey! Want some respect and self esteem? Quit blaming everyone else for your problems and take responsibility for your family and community!
“I quickly pointed out that it’s just as easy to get a bottle of Lysol in these communities as anything else. So to think that people are going to be purchasing Purel to become intoxicated, that’s quite an outrageous leap to make.”
Now THAT”S brand loyalty.
Let’s see, to what lengths will alcohol abusers go to see if it is “absolutely outrageous” to worry about people trying to distill the alcohol out of hand sanitizer. Drinking Lysol. Rubbing alchohol. Listerine. Engine anti-freeze. The alcohol from certain instrument gauges. Shoe polish. Some people make “bean juice” which is apparently very potent. Lock de-icer.
Yes, it is absolutely outrageous to think that anyone would even THINK about drinking hand sanitizer.
Wouldn’t this fall under “assimilation” if we sent them hand sanitizer?
Garden Hill is in the middle of nowhere. I dont even know if they have a variety store there….seriously. It would depend on a reserve person or the reserve itself to run the store.
Many of these places are screwed up that way.
As for why the fed’s need to supply or would stop hand sanitizers going up there…???? Oh my goodness. I would be curious to know if the health minister, an accomplished Inuit knew of these views being expressed. One cant assume that “community” of aboriginals is homogeneous in its views.
Would it shoock me if she was one of the people worried about that. Not at all.
By the way, how does a virus like that get to an isolated community. Must come through the pilots and passengers who are in airports. Honestly, Garden Hill is about as far from civilization as you can get. The only way in is float plane I believe.
Weird story….why the federal government wants to be responsible for every burp and quirk in these communities is beyond me.
you just freeze the sanitizer on a popsicle stick and munch away, no worst then inhaling gasoline fumes is it???
What really took the cake was a Native woman in the report last night saying that delaying the shipment of hand sanitizer was “bordering on racism.”
“Racism” and “racist” are no longer meaningful terms, as they are applied so promiscuously.
I guess this is where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has brought us without the commensurate responsibilities and obligations.
“What does a freaking bottle of hand sanitizer cost, anyway?” About 5 to 7 dollars.
As I understand it, some of the chiefs were afraid people would drink it.
“But Chief David Harper, of the Garden Hill First Nation in Manitoba, said he had such a discussion about alcohol-based sanitizers with his councillors, and they believed they had legitimate concerns. So, they found an alternative product.”
One presumes Chief David Hill and his councilors would know whereof they speak, yes? I suspect drinking the sanitizer would kill you quicker than the swine flu.
I suspect the reason Kate raises First Nations issues in a negative way is due to some weird sense of envy – she knows full well the legitimacy of the s.35 rights and yet assails them in a forum that prevents any discussion of the legal and constitutional rights – keep banging your head on the wall Kate – there nothing you can do to change things
I read this story last night and it made us laugh. Good grief! All of the medical releases regarding the flu, protect your self, WASH YOUR HANDS! You can’t sit back and expect the government to come in a do that too!
“keep banging your head on the wall Kate – there nothing you can do to change things”
“First Nations Politics: dedicated to upholding the definition of insanity”.
Nothing sanitizes the hands better than good old soap and water. Surely they wouldn’t need instructions on how to do that now, would they?
Oops, is that a racist statement?
“… By the way, how does a virus like that get to an isolated community. Must come through the pilots and passengers who are in airports. Honestly, Garden Hill is about as far from civilization as you can get. The only way in is float plane I believe.
Posted by: Stephen at June 24, 2009 4:05 PM …”
Stephen , when I first heard about H1N1 in some of these remote places , it made me wonder if the virus has actually been around and only recently has been identified.
Soap and water folks. Besides, those little bottles are not recyclable so we can’t offend the green (eco) folks now can we. Heck, if they are so worried about keeping it a dry reserve then do what the Muslims do who had the same issue (for different reasons)in the British hospitals?
BeardysCree; under what section of any treaty does it mention hand sanitizer or are you just selectively interpreting it for us?
some years ago I worked “up north” as a teacher and was regularly assailed by my grade 9/10 students over how bad the government treated Aboriginals vs “White Men”.
Their proof was housing. They would look at newspapers from major southern cities and deduce from the Real Estate section that the government was against them because it “gave the White Men much nicer houses than it gave Aboriginals”
My counter argument that the houses depicted in the newspapers didn’t come from the government and had to be purchased was met with incredulity and accusations of lying.
Socialism . . . killing native cultures around the world much more insidiously than any conqueror’s Army ever could.
Looks like we have two things.
Completely insane politicians and completely helpless Indians. Both are pretty useless as well.
We have a serious shortage of adults in Canada.
This sort of dilemma is what makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian.
I am not a doctor but many hand sanitizers are 30% or more ethyl alcohol or isopropanol. Both of these are hazardous to the health.
If this is indeed true then perhaps the swine flu was less risky than the chance of somebody drinking the sanitizer. The AFN may be a tad overreacting to some intelligent considerations.
There’s a small pox blanket joke in here somewhere
> A bar of soap might be worth looking into.
I owned one of those once, but I gave it to a friend after I spent an entire evening unable to locate the ON switch.
In dry communities, you can’t buy it. I think, though, instead of a debate in Ottawa, the discussion could have taken place with the band offices and let the Chiefs decide, as with Chief Harper.
If the community wants it, bring it in (and have it for sale). If they do not, there are obviously alternatives.
The federal government should let the band politicians make those decisions.
What exactly do you stand for, Kate? All you seem to do is spread hatred.
The Editor’s note of 3:46PM.
I didn’t read the comments as they were deleted prior to my accessing the comments session.
I do, however believe that the commenter was deleted because he/she used Jennifer Lynch as a nom-de-blog.
While I can’t disagree with the deletion, I must question why this was done when, in the past, other commenters have used such names as George Bush, Joe Clarke and others.
Are we still so afraid of the CHRC so that we cannot refer to Herself without fear of an action??
I’m not trying to be truculent here, only wanting an explanation as to why other prominent names are allowed and a cheap bureaucratic lackey’s is not.
antibacterial hand sanitizer to kill a virus?
~bobbie
The alcohol in it literally takes proteins apart.
“What does a freaking bottle of hand sanitizer cost, anyway?” About 5 to 7 dollars.
~Warren Z
They’re selling them at Dollaramas for $1 each.
I have deleted imposters consistently in the past, and banned those who persisted.
There are other threads here inviting discussion on Jennifer Lynch, so your other question could have answered itself.
Names like “George Bush” are such obvious fakes, they don’t rise to the same level of deceit. And of course, sometimes I just don’t see them.
They couldn’t afford it because, well, $10.5 billion dollars a year doesn’t go as far as it used to..
It is the left that should be ashamed for fostering the climate of soft racism in Canada when it comes to aboriginals.After all, the vast majority of the abuses came under the watch of ‘Canada’s natural governing party’
It took however, a Conservative govt to give women in their community matrimonial property rights, and it was the Conservatives who made the formal apology for the dismal Canadian Indian residential school system.
What has the left done to alleviate the misery, abuse and corruption of Canada’s aboriginals, besides throwing good money after bad?
Claiming to earmark five billion dollars for the so called Kelowna Accord was a sham and an insult to those the left claimed they wanted to help.If it looks good without having to spend money (or to actually have to put actions to the rhetoric) the Liberals and NDP will be there with bells on..
yep.hand cleaner to thwart all diease. why, with 100k per native being consumed by indian affairs is there a hungry, sick or dirty inian in this country. they should all be healthy and living in conditions better than the rest of us.
While in the waiting room at the childrens hospital last weekend, I watched a non-native man come in, rip the hand sanitizer off the wall, stuff into his backpack and walk out!
First Nations leaders in Manitoba have slammed federal health officials…
If I were a native/aboriginal/indian, I’d be p’d-off with the Big Chiefs who attracted this sillyness in the first place. What kind of reaction did they expect to such a story?
But I’m not, and don’t let my use of the subjunctive mislead.
Garden Hill has multiple daily flights from Winnipeg via Perimeter Air. It’s not really all that isolated, it’s merely remote.
Getting a crate of sanitizer to the band should be trivial. Sounds like a money grab to me.
“I have deleted impostors consistently in the past, and banned those who persisted.”
George Bush, Jennifer Lynch are obvious fakes but I’m pretty sure that’s the real Vitruvius posting though. The boy just knows too much. Perhaps a reincarnation of sorts. If he is the real one he’s aged very gracefully. Due to clean living no doubt.
After a couple’o millenia, you get used to this sort’o stuff, Gord 😉 But seriously, though, actually, someone from IP address 74.14.20.249 just posted as me (although with obvious errors) on another thread. I have unpublished said comment and left a note there, but be aware.
Oh no you di_n’t! Whatcha mean “you people”?
batb said:
“What really took the cake was a Native woman in the report last night saying that delaying the shipment of hand sanitizer was “bordering on racism.””
I suspect that if the hand sanitizer was distributed, and someone did get drunk or sick; the same commenter’s would accuse the Conservatives of being ignorant to the First Nation’s struggle with alcoholism. The financial and political cost of distributing the sanitizer is far greater than the chosen alternative.
“It appears that public health officials, the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch and chiefs discussed the sanitizer issue and whether it would be appropriate to send the disinfectants to communities battling alcohol addiction.”——Well,I never,this is so racist.How dare they !!!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sanitizer-withheld-from-flu-ravaged-reserves-over-alcohol-fears/article1194440/
“A senior health official confirmed to the committee that chiefs and public-health officials debated the sanitizer issue at length in the nascent stages of the outbreak last month. ‘The discussion was with the best interests of our clients in mind,’ said Anne-Marie Robinson, assistant deputy minister of Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. ‘We have had some rare experiences in our communities where we have had theft of hand sanitizers. … We do have communities where we have large proportions of people who suffer from addiction. … We have had a number of people come forward, and some evidence, where this could potentially put people at risk.'”
OK. What’s wrong with the picture the media is portraying about HandSanitizerGate, which seems to be the sole fault of the federal government, read: the CPC?
‘Seems that some Native chiefs and “a number of other people” were angling for the alcohol-laden hand sanitizers not to be sent to Native reserves for fear they might jeopardize those with alcohol-related addictions, but the blame still seems to have been laid solely at the feet of the CPC — especially in the television media and by many of the Native chiefs.
David McDougall, chief of St. Theresa Point First Nation, says, “The whole community was put at risk because someone was worried that a handful of people might abuse the stuff.”
“Someone” is at fault. And, according to Mr. McDougall, it’s not him or his people, it’s the government. And according to Torybaiter, above, anyone who points this out is “bigot[ed], racis[t], and intoleran[t].”
You’re right, Indiana Homez. If someone dies from the shipment of hand sanitizers to some reserves, PMSH and his CPC will get it in the jugular for that.
‘Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
wallyj, we must have been on the same wavelength … now what?!
antibacterial hand sanitizer to kill a virus?
How did indians survive all those centuries before the federal government ran their lives for them?
You’d think the government would have to send every indian a doctor just to perform CPR on them 24/7 so they wouldn’t have to go through the hassle of breathing on their own.
A bar of soap might be worth looking into.
Do they want us to apply it to their hands as well?? Wipe off the excess for them?
They might not make it to the next bingo game if they had to buy their own. Talk about the give-me population. I suppose all other hygiene products must also be given out for free. Time to get rid of the Indian Act.
Read that the stuff doesn’t really work that well. Simply will not substitute for hand washing with soap for 20 seconds.
Don’t rely on it.
Filed under ‘you can’t have it both ways, chief!’
Yay, Free Everything !!! Socialism on the Road to Communism at its finest. The Govern-mental Provider of Free Everything !!!
But seriously Gunney99 has it bang on “hand washing with soap for 20 seconds”
You might be able to buy it for yourself if you live in southern Canada, but in the dry reserves they aren’t allowed to stock it on the shelves or in the pharmacy.
I think it’s also a factor of the patronizing attitude of Indian Affairs, who stupidly consider that IF a product contains alcohol and IF native reserves have a great deal of alcohol, THEN, the product can’t be shipped to the reserve.
I presume this excludes various medicinal products such as..ahh..calamine lotion, Clinique products, and so on.
And yes, apparently they don’t work that well. But, you’ll still find them everywhere in the halls in hospitals.
Do they assume that someone on the reserve is going to set up a shop to separate the alcohol from the other products in the hand sanitizer and then….?
Editors note:
This comment has been deleted, along with your other comments, due to the misuse of a third party’s identity.
Your ip address 65.93.75.180 has been noted and will be turned over at request should this person seek remedy against you.
Now, I strongly suggest that you find another place to play.
Hmmm … I wonder if the delay is related to the fact that for the sanitizer to effective it must contain at least 30% alcohol … regardless if it is methol or ethol alchol perhaps the concern is they might drink it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
… Duhhhhhhhh just wash your hands with soap !
” … No racists here. No siree…
Posted by: Jennifer Lynch at June 24, 2009 3:46 PM …”
Ah yes … it is racist to tell someone to wash there hands … oh but I forgot the lunatic BC HRC deemed that it was an HR offense for MacDonalds to insist one of their workers wash their hands.
Don’t have basic toiletries? Blame whitey! Drop a kid in Wal-mart? It’s society’s fault! Leave your kids half naked outside in a blizzard? Get a lawyer to lay it on whitey! Want some respect and self esteem? Quit blaming everyone else for your problems and take responsibility for your family and community!
“I quickly pointed out that it’s just as easy to get a bottle of Lysol in these communities as anything else. So to think that people are going to be purchasing Purel to become intoxicated, that’s quite an outrageous leap to make.”
Now THAT”S brand loyalty.
Let’s see, to what lengths will alcohol abusers go to see if it is “absolutely outrageous” to worry about people trying to distill the alcohol out of hand sanitizer. Drinking Lysol. Rubbing alchohol. Listerine. Engine anti-freeze. The alcohol from certain instrument gauges. Shoe polish. Some people make “bean juice” which is apparently very potent. Lock de-icer.
Yes, it is absolutely outrageous to think that anyone would even THINK about drinking hand sanitizer.
Wouldn’t this fall under “assimilation” if we sent them hand sanitizer?
Garden Hill is in the middle of nowhere. I dont even know if they have a variety store there….seriously. It would depend on a reserve person or the reserve itself to run the store.
Many of these places are screwed up that way.
As for why the fed’s need to supply or would stop hand sanitizers going up there…???? Oh my goodness. I would be curious to know if the health minister, an accomplished Inuit knew of these views being expressed. One cant assume that “community” of aboriginals is homogeneous in its views.
Would it shoock me if she was one of the people worried about that. Not at all.
By the way, how does a virus like that get to an isolated community. Must come through the pilots and passengers who are in airports. Honestly, Garden Hill is about as far from civilization as you can get. The only way in is float plane I believe.
Weird story….why the federal government wants to be responsible for every burp and quirk in these communities is beyond me.
you just freeze the sanitizer on a popsicle stick and munch away, no worst then inhaling gasoline fumes is it???
What really took the cake was a Native woman in the report last night saying that delaying the shipment of hand sanitizer was “bordering on racism.”
“Racism” and “racist” are no longer meaningful terms, as they are applied so promiscuously.
I guess this is where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has brought us without the commensurate responsibilities and obligations.
“What does a freaking bottle of hand sanitizer cost, anyway?” About 5 to 7 dollars.
As I understand it, some of the chiefs were afraid people would drink it.
“But Chief David Harper, of the Garden Hill First Nation in Manitoba, said he had such a discussion about alcohol-based sanitizers with his councillors, and they believed they had legitimate concerns. So, they found an alternative product.”
One presumes Chief David Hill and his councilors would know whereof they speak, yes? I suspect drinking the sanitizer would kill you quicker than the swine flu.
I suspect the reason Kate raises First Nations issues in a negative way is due to some weird sense of envy – she knows full well the legitimacy of the s.35 rights and yet assails them in a forum that prevents any discussion of the legal and constitutional rights – keep banging your head on the wall Kate – there nothing you can do to change things
I read this story last night and it made us laugh. Good grief! All of the medical releases regarding the flu, protect your self, WASH YOUR HANDS! You can’t sit back and expect the government to come in a do that too!
“keep banging your head on the wall Kate – there nothing you can do to change things”
“First Nations Politics: dedicated to upholding the definition of insanity”.
Nothing sanitizes the hands better than good old soap and water. Surely they wouldn’t need instructions on how to do that now, would they?
Oops, is that a racist statement?
“… By the way, how does a virus like that get to an isolated community. Must come through the pilots and passengers who are in airports. Honestly, Garden Hill is about as far from civilization as you can get. The only way in is float plane I believe.
Posted by: Stephen at June 24, 2009 4:05 PM …”
Stephen , when I first heard about H1N1 in some of these remote places , it made me wonder if the virus has actually been around and only recently has been identified.
Soap and water folks. Besides, those little bottles are not recyclable so we can’t offend the green (eco) folks now can we. Heck, if they are so worried about keeping it a dry reserve then do what the Muslims do who had the same issue (for different reasons)in the British hospitals?
BeardysCree; under what section of any treaty does it mention hand sanitizer or are you just selectively interpreting it for us?
some years ago I worked “up north” as a teacher and was regularly assailed by my grade 9/10 students over how bad the government treated Aboriginals vs “White Men”.
Their proof was housing. They would look at newspapers from major southern cities and deduce from the Real Estate section that the government was against them because it “gave the White Men much nicer houses than it gave Aboriginals”
My counter argument that the houses depicted in the newspapers didn’t come from the government and had to be purchased was met with incredulity and accusations of lying.
Socialism . . . killing native cultures around the world much more insidiously than any conqueror’s Army ever could.
Looks like we have two things.
Completely insane politicians and completely helpless Indians. Both are pretty useless as well.
We have a serious shortage of adults in Canada.
This sort of dilemma is what makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian.
I am not a doctor but many hand sanitizers are 30% or more ethyl alcohol or isopropanol. Both of these are hazardous to the health.
If this is indeed true then perhaps the swine flu was less risky than the chance of somebody drinking the sanitizer. The AFN may be a tad overreacting to some intelligent considerations.
There’s a small pox blanket joke in here somewhere
> A bar of soap might be worth looking into.
I owned one of those once, but I gave it to a friend after I spent an entire evening unable to locate the ON switch.
In dry communities, you can’t buy it. I think, though, instead of a debate in Ottawa, the discussion could have taken place with the band offices and let the Chiefs decide, as with Chief Harper.
If the community wants it, bring it in (and have it for sale). If they do not, there are obviously alternatives.
The federal government should let the band politicians make those decisions.
What exactly do you stand for, Kate? All you seem to do is spread hatred.
The Editor’s note of 3:46PM.
I didn’t read the comments as they were deleted prior to my accessing the comments session.
I do, however believe that the commenter was deleted because he/she used Jennifer Lynch as a nom-de-blog.
While I can’t disagree with the deletion, I must question why this was done when, in the past, other commenters have used such names as George Bush, Joe Clarke and others.
Are we still so afraid of the CHRC so that we cannot refer to Herself without fear of an action??
I’m not trying to be truculent here, only wanting an explanation as to why other prominent names are allowed and a cheap bureaucratic lackey’s is not.
antibacterial hand sanitizer to kill a virus?
~bobbie
The alcohol in it literally takes proteins apart.
“What does a freaking bottle of hand sanitizer cost, anyway?” About 5 to 7 dollars.
~Warren Z
They’re selling them at Dollaramas for $1 each.
I have deleted imposters consistently in the past, and banned those who persisted.
There are other threads here inviting discussion on Jennifer Lynch, so your other question could have answered itself.
Names like “George Bush” are such obvious fakes, they don’t rise to the same level of deceit. And of course, sometimes I just don’t see them.
They couldn’t afford it because, well, $10.5 billion dollars a year doesn’t go as far as it used to..
It is the left that should be ashamed for fostering the climate of soft racism in Canada when it comes to aboriginals.After all, the vast majority of the abuses came under the watch of ‘Canada’s natural governing party’
It took however, a Conservative govt to give women in their community matrimonial property rights, and it was the Conservatives who made the formal apology for the dismal Canadian Indian residential school system.
What has the left done to alleviate the misery, abuse and corruption of Canada’s aboriginals, besides throwing good money after bad?
Claiming to earmark five billion dollars for the so called Kelowna Accord was a sham and an insult to those the left claimed they wanted to help.If it looks good without having to spend money (or to actually have to put actions to the rhetoric) the Liberals and NDP will be there with bells on..
yep.hand cleaner to thwart all diease. why, with 100k per native being consumed by indian affairs is there a hungry, sick or dirty inian in this country. they should all be healthy and living in conditions better than the rest of us.
While in the waiting room at the childrens hospital last weekend, I watched a non-native man come in, rip the hand sanitizer off the wall, stuff into his backpack and walk out!
First Nations leaders in Manitoba have slammed federal health officials…
If I were a native/aboriginal/indian, I’d be p’d-off with the Big Chiefs who attracted this sillyness in the first place. What kind of reaction did they expect to such a story?
But I’m not, and don’t let my use of the subjunctive mislead.
Garden Hill has multiple daily flights from Winnipeg via Perimeter Air. It’s not really all that isolated, it’s merely remote.
Getting a crate of sanitizer to the band should be trivial. Sounds like a money grab to me.
“I have deleted impostors consistently in the past, and banned those who persisted.”
George Bush, Jennifer Lynch are obvious fakes but I’m pretty sure that’s the real Vitruvius posting though. The boy just knows too much. Perhaps a reincarnation of sorts. If he is the real one he’s aged very gracefully. Due to clean living no doubt.
After a couple’o millenia, you get used to this sort’o stuff, Gord 😉 But seriously, though, actually, someone from IP address 74.14.20.249 just posted as me (although with obvious errors) on another thread. I have unpublished said comment and left a note there, but be aware.
Oh no you di_n’t! Whatcha mean “you people”?
batb said:
“What really took the cake was a Native woman in the report last night saying that delaying the shipment of hand sanitizer was “bordering on racism.””
I suspect that if the hand sanitizer was distributed, and someone did get drunk or sick; the same commenter’s would accuse the Conservatives of being ignorant to the First Nation’s struggle with alcoholism. The financial and political cost of distributing the sanitizer is far greater than the chosen alternative.
“It appears that public health officials, the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch and chiefs discussed the sanitizer issue and whether it would be appropriate to send the disinfectants to communities battling alcohol addiction.”——Well,I never,this is so racist.How dare they !!!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sanitizer-withheld-from-flu-ravaged-reserves-over-alcohol-fears/article1194440/
“A senior health official confirmed to the committee that chiefs and public-health officials debated the sanitizer issue at length in the nascent stages of the outbreak last month. ‘The discussion was with the best interests of our clients in mind,’ said Anne-Marie Robinson, assistant deputy minister of Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. ‘We have had some rare experiences in our communities where we have had theft of hand sanitizers. … We do have communities where we have large proportions of people who suffer from addiction. … We have had a number of people come forward, and some evidence, where this could potentially put people at risk.'”
OK. What’s wrong with the picture the media is portraying about HandSanitizerGate, which seems to be the sole fault of the federal government, read: the CPC?
‘Seems that some Native chiefs and “a number of other people” were angling for the alcohol-laden hand sanitizers not to be sent to Native reserves for fear they might jeopardize those with alcohol-related addictions, but the blame still seems to have been laid solely at the feet of the CPC — especially in the television media and by many of the Native chiefs.
David McDougall, chief of St. Theresa Point First Nation, says, “The whole community was put at risk because someone was worried that a handful of people might abuse the stuff.”
“Someone” is at fault. And, according to Mr. McDougall, it’s not him or his people, it’s the government. And according to Torybaiter, above, anyone who points this out is “bigot[ed], racis[t], and intoleran[t].”
You’re right, Indiana Homez. If someone dies from the shipment of hand sanitizers to some reserves, PMSH and his CPC will get it in the jugular for that.
‘Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
wallyj, we must have been on the same wavelength … now what?!