20 Replies to “Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?”

  1. Folks,our government need only listen to Paul Martin, he has all the answers on the Indian problems. Never mind the fact his government did squat to improve the situation, his Kelowna Accord happened to be ready just in time for he and his party to get turfed and he’s been drumming on the demise of his Accord ever since.

  2. That brief outline of The Indian Act was perfect. Exactly right.
    Natives on the reserve can’t own property, can’t sell their homes, can’t start a private business, which means – no economy is possible on the reserve.
    Everything is collective; all property and indeed, everything, is owned by the collective. And, the collective gets all its money from the government since individuals can’t develop a private business on the reserve.
    And the band leaders, which are often incestuously corrupt, make all decisions about who gets what.
    Get rid of the Reserve system. Get rid of it. Give each native a final settlement. It’s over.
    And get rid of the massive bloated Ottawa Indian bureaucracy.

  3. So really, each reservation is like a Little North Korea on the Prairie…
    Tatunka/Kim-chee!

  4. ET…Your comments are to the point and absolutely bang on.!!
    Exra: Excellent job on that short video…should be mandatory viewing by ALL Canadians
    Cheers

  5. You can see why the chiefs wanna keep the status quo. Hard to keep the driveway paved if there is no tax money to steal. But something tells me that if the reserves were shut down, the people given land to do with as they please to earn a living, and the chiefs lost their power that they would simply switch gears. The former chiefs would turn to protection rackets offering “protection” to the new businesses and private farms. After all, once a thief, always a thief.

  6. Bravo Ezra.
    Conservatives need to use familiar liberal language to turn the tables.
    That is most effective: play the racism card, except here it’s HONEST.
    Also words like “sustainable” because let’s face with even a modicum of economic understanding one can easily see that most liberal projects are UNsustainable.
    Another is CHOICE: with scarcity you gotta choose to give up A if you want B.

  7. But will the RCMP actually tolerate that, Robert L? Aren’t “protection rackets” THEIR bailiwick?

  8. Yes the chiefs are stealing their ppl blind. But if someone complains they are racist. It is time to stop paying res money and give to the one’s that need it. After thought, when will they put thief Spence in jail?

  9. “Get rid of the Reserve system. Get rid of it. Give each native a final settlement. It’s over.
    And get rid of the massive bloated Ottawa Indian bureaucracy.”
    A happy thought, but it’ll never happen. There are too many people, both in the Indian Affairs bureaucracy and the Indian leadership, who are living handsomely off the Indian Act. Throw in the “racist” card, and politicians would rather say “Nothing to see here – move on”.

  10. “Natives on the reserve can’t own property, can’t sell their homes, can’t start a private business, which means – no economy is possible on the reserve.”
    This is true to a limited degree. I knew Indians living on Rez that did start successful businesses.When I was in the BC Forest Service,I regularly hired two Indian brothers who owned their own logging company which they worked on logging shows off Rez.Neither one was the Chief,don’t know if they were Band Councillors or not.
    I also knew a young Indian from New Aiyansh,Nisga’a Rez,who owned his own mushroom farm, though he was related to the Chief.
    Here in the Okanagan,the local Chief,as has been reported in the local Papers numerous times, is a multi-millionaire from his land dealings,off Reserve,I presume.His Westbank FN is one of the wealthiest in Canada.
    Most of the cases we see on national TV of Band members sitting in a broken down house is more due to unwillingness to pick up a hammer and saw and do the work that has to be done.
    It’s a cop-out to simply say,”they don’t own the land or house”, but the reality is the house IS theirs as long as they want to live in it. If I or anyone here was living under the same arrangement, we’d do the regular maintenance that is required to keep a house in livable condition.
    No matter who owns the house,if I live in it and the landlord isn’t doing the maintenance,I’d do it myself to keep it water-tight and livable, and send him the Bill for any materials.The object is to keep the house livable for me and my family,so whining isn’t going to fix a leaky roof.
    Instead,the Indians sit and cry on TV and the MSM idiots cry right along with them.The elderly,of course, can’t do the work themselves,and THEY are victims,of their own Band government. Remember,we’re always told a Native Elder is held in respect,almost awe, in his/her community.
    The word of a Native Elder is sufficient for evidence in a Canadian Court of Law,so we can assume that all Native Elders are living in well-maintained homes,can’t we?
    The Indians don’t lift a finger,because they expect someone else to do any little job.Two generations of welfare dependency,under any other name, has destroyed the work ethic of many Indian people.
    There are 100 citizens of Attawapiskat working at Debeer’s mine.I have never seen one of them interviewed on TV,or seen his house. I wonder if it isn’t because their houses are well maintained by people who DO know how to work,and showing them wouldn’t fit the narrative of Indians as victims.

  11. the biggest weapon of destruction the west has ever built is welfare, and the reserve system is an excellent example of it’s destructive power!!!!

  12. And here I thought the Indian act was about settlers with their progeny forever, giving Natives free everything forever, while their “Chiefs” steal from them forever.
    Pay this generation off, then its up to them to live like the rest of us.
    Enough already of the Gulags, called reservations.

  13. It took Ezra 1 minute and 45 seconds to figure out a 130+ year old problem. He’s a genius. Meanwhile, the prime minister is hiding in the Harperbunker, wringing his hands when he’s not sobbing into his pillow. Why do we need a government when we can have Ezra?

  14. And if you think Harper is wringing his hands, Iberia, you’re a dimmer bulb than I thought you were.
    The ownership of houses is more complex than it would appear because I’ve seen an Indian Christian leader explain it better than that. He and his wife now own their own home, but neither being able to own one nor repairs are equal on all reserves.

  15. It’s a cop-out to simply say,”they don’t own the land or house”, but the reality is the house IS theirs as long as they want to live in it.
    Yes, it is. So what if they can’t get their money back out of it. They get the home for free to start with.
    Letting things deteriorate due to not owning the home is a convenient excuse, nothing more.

  16. Back in the day before whitey came and ruined everything, did they own their teepees, or were they the tribe’s? If your, er, the teepee you were sleeping in needed repair, were those sleeping in it responsible for repairing it, or did someone else in the tribe (or Santa Clause?) have to do it?
    Just asking.

  17. “Get rid of the Reserve system. Get rid of it. Give each native a final settlement. It’s over.” ET
    The final settlement should be an Apple & Bus fare. As long as folks like you still think the Indians are owed something… nothing will change and a new ERA of reshuffled insanity. It’s not about an audit.. It’s about NO MORE need to audit
    Time for Canada to take ownership of thier Constitution and correct the nasty!

  18. I’d throw in a bit more—in fact I’d insist on it. The first stop of that bus will be a military hospital. Not one Indian leaves it without submitting to being neutered or spayed.
    Or we can enjoy the benefits of squaws whelping fetal alcohol babies and dumping them on the foster care system—at the expense of long-suffering white taxpayers. The Indians have the highest birth rate of any group in the Dominion—and rest assured, quantity is no substitute for quality.
    ET—you, like generations of deluded liberals, still want to help the Indians, when the hard fact is any Indian still on the reserve at this stage isn’t worth trying to help. The only humane solution, if culling them isn’t an option, is to see that they don’t breed any more than absolutely necessary.
    Sterilizing Gypsy women who’ve already whelped their share of pups has proven better than nothing in Eastern Europe, which is why many doctors there continue to do it pro bono, long after the official Communist-era policies mandating it have been abolished, and the whinging of local Gypsy kings and foreign bleeding-hearts be blowed. Normal people out there are well aware that Gypsy women fit to be mothers are as rare as hen’s teeth—and there aren’t anywhere near enough good homes for all the pups.
    What’s Canada’s excuse?

  19. And someone wants to maintain this status quo?
    There are treaties that allow bands to benefit from oil, ect. I guess it pays to be on top of the figurative totem pole.

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