I hadn’t the strength for this one. So, over to Ezra.
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I see that some eco-green nuts were holding a big protests against Govenor Walker in a iceberg boat and dressed as moose the dumb thing capsized on the idiots they were part of some dumb liberal groups AMERICANS UNITED for CHANGE darf granola munchers cant match wits with this cleaver old shorebird
If you can believe it, Ezra missed a Muslim connection in this list.
Section 49 calls on all religious denominations and faith groups to reject the principle of terra nullius, the sensible attitude the British and French and Spanish had which was “there’s nobody here, so I guess it’s first come first serve”.
This would include Muslims, I suppose. There are three action items with “all denominations and faith groups” references which mean the TRC expects Muslim leaders to do more than Indian Chiefs (who don’t get any action items).
The big thing about Section 49 is that terra nullius is a real thing with real world implications. Specifically, the Bi’r Tawīl Triangle, the 800 square mile unclaimed area in between Egypt and Sudan that is alternately claimed and disputed by each side. Obviously these would be Muslim countries arguing over the territory meaning that the TRC expects Egyptian Muslim groups in Canada to reject their own land claims.
Anything that calls for ramping up funding for the Mother Corpse, immediately loses all credibility.
I’m still trying to see what a cell phone or a motorized boat has to do with native culture!
The media has been singing the praises of this Report all day on every TV network like it was the New Magna Carta or Constitution.
Thanks,Ezra, for showing us the truth: it has nothing to do with helping the average Indian and everything to do with enriching the lawyers and politicians in the Indian Industry. The new T&R bureaucracy will undoubtedly expand into the thousands within a few years.
The T&R commission will permanently install official apartheid in Canada, especially if the Boy Wonder becomes the next PM.
I am truly terrified for our future.
Ezra is more or less bang-on in his criticism of this circus. He is wrong in his conclusion that this will lead to racism as it is already firmly entrenched in the Indian Act. The Indian Industry under the mentorship of the SCOC and its permanent ruling and PC legislation creating bench, is in the process of reversing the apartheid inherent in the Indian Act. This means stripping sovereignty from the Crown and granting it to the creations of the Act, the reserve system of dystopian communist enclaves of racial purity equal to and greater than 1/16 Indian. The Indian Industry believes that all Canadian land is owned by FNs and the 97% who don’t have 1/16th purity are tenants without property rights obligated to pay the FN communist enclaves ad infinitum – quite the reconciliation!
As far as the SCOC is concerned, two words – term limits.
They want every amenity the white man has to offer but want to maintain all the failed traditions inherent in their lifestyle. Not only that, but I find “truth and reconciliation” a insult to the people it really applied to. It’s like a cheap Chinese knock off in the hands of these perpetual victims that cost taxpayers over 10 billion a year. Any mother of a large family can point out that if you don’t treat all your children equally, you are begging for problems somewhere down the road. We are already too far down that road. I would rather the message was, “get a life, get a education, get a job and get out of our wallets. The whole subject of Indian victimization is moving from annoying to downright stupid. Thank you Mr. Harper for seeing this for what it is. At least for now. I’m sure the CBC and their far left followers will continue to double down. It’s what they do. To the wild applause of like minded fools. Whites will be a minority in less than 40 years. Then what ? You think immigrants will give a damn ? I doubt if they do even now. It’s the 21st century. Get on board, because you can never go back. Stupidity may be inherent but it has a expiry tag that far too many lawyers and politicians ignore. Grow up. Get a life. Yes Justin and Mulcair, that means you too.
It all sounds rather like “sovereignty-association” without the expectation that the sovereign aboriginal bantustans have any responsibilities to the association or, in fact, to their own people.
Well said Ezra.
This is also interesting.
Mr.Mansbridge interviews Justice Sinclair; http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2668649981/
In the last 2 minutes Peter asks, in reference to ‘Idle No More’; ” When you saw what happened in Missouri and in Baltimore and in Cleveland and in other American cities where certain segments rose up and said that we’re not going to take it anymore, did you see parallels there ? ”
Sinclair deftly deflects, but the intent of the question is there.
Why ?
BTW, “certain segments” ???
The CBC and the parasites on the left are inflaming unrest. Their constant use of the term ‘genocide’, the never-ending laying of the blame at the feet of the current gov’t, the refusal to tell both sides of any political story or to report the flaws of their crony’s arguments all point to that.
The CBC has gone past bias and partisanship. They have crossed over to evil. They are a cornered rat. They will stir up trouble and then lay the dead at the feet of PM Harper and ask “Why did you allow this to happen?”.
One more thing.
Today in the House of Commons question period, Tommy rose up and he acknowledged that he was standing on unceded Algonquin territory. That is not going to help the situation at all.
Not to be outdone, Justin rose up and also said that he was standing on unceded Algonquin territory and the Liberal party would ensure that the Algonquins had the necessary seeds to grow their crops.
MY guess is that OSOYOOS BC FN CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE was never involved in the RECONCILIATION process!
Why is this all occurring now? Election year,of course. The Indians are trying to suck more money using whine power. The NDP and Liberals will give their sympathies latching onto the catch phrase,”cultural genocide” coined by Chief Justice McLachlin. If this isn’t leftist activism rearing it’s head I don’t what it is.
It very much appears the Indians want to remain a separate “nation” from Canada, lay claim to any land they wish and continue to take money from the tax paying citizens of Canada. Meanwhile, continue with the big whine and complaints, drag up old issues and new grievances and NEVER let them die no matter how many times the governments of the Canada of today apologize.
Things have to change but who is going to make those changes? Who has the responsibility to make changes?
It’s useless saying something has to give when we know that will not happen either but we will keep on giving, pouring money into a big black hole.
Canada has far too many stupid people to survive as a nation.
If you go to http://www.trc.ca you will find a video entitled ‘How should people feel?’ What I feel is unprintable.
At my second job, I used to get up in the middle of the night to prepare an airplane at -35C temperatures on Baffin Island so that an all-white crew could fly into a gravel strip to pick up a patient and medevac them to Frobisher Bay. If there was a head trauma, the plane would be refuelled and continue to Montreal at a cost of $25,000 1987 dollars all of which was paid for by the taxpayers. That hardly sounds like genocide or neglect to me.
Regarding recommendation 86, I guess freedom of press is now a wholly American concept in addition to speech.
This is such a typical proggy-style love-in – a big guilt orgy where each self-flagellating proglodyte tries to out guilt the other as the rapacious racketeers from the indicant industry salivate over the percentage of fed income they will accept to salve their counterfeit claims.
Well, I had nothing to do with any presumed damages they say they suffered (before they were born) before I was born, – if they are waiting for apologies or shake down cash from a fully unapologetically guiltless man they’ll die of old age first. No wonder they always petition progs, they know these people are mentally ill and irrational enough to accept a fallacious shake down as a moral scratching post.
It wasn’t much of a genocide if we’re constantly hearing about this stuff.
I get the feeling that these grievance mongers are going for broke due to the change in demographics of this country. Awful
hard to play the white guilt card to a potential PM Singh.
Re. Mulclaire’s declaration. You cannot get any more imbecilic than that (well demand more CBC funding perhaps).
Do-good touchy-feely leftism is why the Indians are in this racial dug-out. This is a charter for the aboriginal industry, not aboriginals.
It calls for the adoption of the UN declaration on indigenous peoples. Ha! Since when does the UN govern Canada? Also, said declaration doesn’t actually define indigenous – are we not all indigenous to the planet?
I just ran across a typical CBC Holocaust-invoking headline: “Children of residential school survivors share their stories.”
I knew for many years a “First Nations” worker in the B.C. school district where I worked as a principal. I knew her so long that I remember when she was a “Native” worker and subsequently “Aboriginal” worker.
She often talked of her time in a residential school and how much that positively influenced her life. Funny, she didn’t present as as a “survivor” of a “cultural genocide camp” to me.
Watching Ezra at least takes my mind off how bad things are right now in my current country of residence, the U.S.A.
Reconciliation: Old Ojibwe word meaning, “Papoose of Whiteman’s great, great, grandson owes me bigtime.”
The evidence upon which this report is based is certainly selective. There used to be large numbers of Indians who spoke positively about residential schools. Being taken out of the bush where food was scarce and given 3 meals daily plus clean quarters and an education must have seemed like heaven. The experience of those who could not conform wouldn’t have been good but I suspect it was a minority. The Bush Nazis have silenced all positive opinion of residential schools.
Compensation for abuse was based on telling a good story. Taking it up the wazoo got as much as $250,000 cash. The Indians themselves called this arse money and were skeptical of many of the claims. There was no penalty for telling a lie and endless number of people who didn’t even attend residential school put in claims.
The whole process was built on lies and went downhill from there. Perpetuating the Indian industry harms the Indians more than it helps them and this whole report is just another statement demanding more bureaucracy when it is obvious to everyone but those who directly benefit that what is needed is less bureaucracy.
This report will be milked for all it is worth during the run-up to the Federal election in an attempt to make Harper and the Conservatives look bad and to extort federal monies and concessions.
I expect that Joe Molnar is right about Chief Louie not being involved in this Stalinist show trial.
The one consistent pattern in the reports is that it calls upon ‘the federal government, all levels of government, corporations, Law Societies of Canada, et al to do this or that’ but they do not call upon the aboriginal peoples to take responsibility for themselves at all.
as an example
23. We call upon all levels of government to:
i. Increase the number of Aboriginal professionals working in the health care field.
The idea that aboriginals should study hard and become health care professionals on their own merits like everyone else doesn’t occur to them, instead the government will wave a magic wand and poof! there’ll be aboriginal doctors and nurses and paramedics.
Scar that is all too true. Some of the local natives thought it was quite a joke that they could claim money for something they didn’t have a part of. Sometimes having a parent that was a student was all that was required because you know, Dad was damaged for life and he damaged his family etc. etc.
This. oldwhiteguy nailed it. Barring some of the less flakey parts of our country (Alberta, Saskatchewan, maybe Newfoundland) separating, we might as well throw in the towel right now and let China march in and take over. Leftists love communism anyway, let the apparatchiks put the useless little $hits to work in real jobs so they can prove their sincerity.
Worth mentioning too that if I was PM, I’d torch the document in a wastebasket on national TV and advise aboriginal Canadians that they are going to be treated exactly like every other person in Canada – NO privilege whatsoever based on ethnicity.
I like one of the recommendations: I’d absolutely initiate proceedings for a new staturory holiday – it would be called called GFY Day. A day for every sane Canadian to walk up to any protestor or “activist” and yell the magic, liberating words…well, you know what they are. 😀
A masterful and scholarly presentation by Ezra Levant.
I would not wish to be seen as a naysayer regarding one Peter Mansbridge. I would warrant few persons caught a quick intonation by him a couple of days ago. He was commenting on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations.
He said that if certain recommendations were not carried out, there could be something like FERGUSON happening. I could scarcely credit my hearing. It was slipped in so quickly and then dropped.
He used the word FERGUSON. That I am absolutely sure of. Unbelievable, I will concede.
A masterful and scholarly presentation by Ezra Levant.
I would not wish to be seen as a naysayer regarding one Peter Mansbridge. I would warrant few persons caught a quick intonation by him a couple of days ago. He was commenting on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations.
He said that if certain recommendations were not carried out, there could be something like FERGUSON happening. I could scarcely credit my hearing. It was slipped in so quickly and then dropped.
He used the word FERGUSON. That I am absolutely sure of. Unbelievable, I will concede.
Reference my statement that Peter Mansbridge used the word Ferguson in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
To my chagrin I then saw the name of the Auditor General. Michael Ferguson. If this was the reference by Peter Mansbridge, I stand to be corrected. Somehow I do not think it was though. That name has been referenced in regard to the hearings.
If Canadian voters are paying attention they may notice that they are now number 3 on Mulcair’s list, trailing Quebecers and Aboriginals.
And probably lower.
I’m all for attention at the highest level regarding the plight of the natives outlining the
– infantilization and victimization of the native people
– reparations collectively and individually owed the native people
– consequence for natives’ “cultural genocide”
BY THEIR LEADERSHIP AND COHORTS IN THE NATIVE INDUSTRY.
I’ve personally had enough with ineffective/crooked native leadership creating the very conditions they decry demanding WE do something about it. OTOH how about a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the mismanagement of pilfering from native communities by their leadership?
When Chief Spence was picked up from her hunger strike on the Rideau Canal by her (later charged with fraud) boyfriend in a CADILLAC ESCALADE, I knew then the native leadership was unconcerned with their hypocrisy, corruption or incompetence.
I DON’T CARE IF SOMEONE THINKS IT’S RACIST (OR APPARENTLY “ILLEGAL”) TO SAY SO, BUT IT’S NOT OK TO SCREW OVER YOUR PEOPLE AND BLAME OTHERS WHILE YOU LIVE THE LIFE OF RILEY.
This report perpetuates that attitude and should be exposed for the ideological self-serving document it is. Send all Aboriginal affairs cash to the natives themselves so they can vote for the leadership and services they reserve. That’s the solution to the “problem.” Allowing these bureaucratic clowns to negotiate “nation to nation” with the government and taxpayers of Canada for natives’ benefit is unacceptable because time and time again it has proved an abysmal failure designed to keep the natives under their thumb, in poverty, in despair so their victimhood can be exploited for personal gain.
And it’s a political loser Mr Mulcair – your comments show that you, like Justin, are not ready for prime time:
Mulcair calls for ‘nation to nation’ approach after residential schools report http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-calls-for-nation-to-nation-approach-after-residential-schools-report-1.2404572
“While the Prime Minister said the government would review the recommendations, he did not commit to taking any specific steps. Harper met with TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair privately Tuesday to discuss the TRC’s findings.”
That’s what leaders do rather than pontificate and toy with the prosperity and freedom of all Canadians, including natives. Shame on Mulcair and Trudeau for their naïve & naked political opportunism; another quiver in the bow for Mr Harper when battling these two spendthrift, utopian doofuses who both seem to be bereft of any common sense or fiscal awareness.
The native people need proper leadership, not endless & ongoing consultations, commissions or reports that benefit the Indian industry and their rent seeking chiefs.
“It wasn’t much of a genocide if we’re constantly hearing about this stuff.”
What I ask is, “Genocide? What, did we run out of bullets or something?”
All the Indians claim they were exempted from taxation, but the British loved taxing things and if they had meant to genocide the Indians, they would have at least tried taxing them to death.
Here is Part 1 section f from the Mandate for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=7
(f) Produce and submit to the Parties of the Agreement2 a report including recommendations3 to the Government of Canada concerning the IRS system and experience including: the history, purpose, operation and supervision of the IRS system, the effect and consequences of IRS (including systemic harms, intergenerational consequences and the impact on human dignity) and the ongoing legacy of the residential schools;
I think the process has been hijacked by the “Indian Industry” to keep the dough rolling in.
“I think the process has been hijacked by the “Indian Industry” to keep the dough rolling in.”
Ironically, the Indian lawyers in the ‘Indian Industry’ received their primary educations in either Residential Schools or white Canadian adoption homes.
Except it was the Harper government that called this commission in 2007.
I truly think the public has lost patience for this pandering and wants real action, not “solutions” from those who are clearly a big part of the problems facing natives in their communities.
There is a link to what you are talking about up above at; ‘ wallyj June 3, 2015 3:15 AM ‘
other than the schools. the roads , security , water supply,education ,welfare , what have the whitefolks ever done for us.?
Chief Fishbroth
I rest easy knowing I am not a guilty white liberal. Ezra states the lawyers and politicians and bureaucracy are rubbing their collective hands at the possible new mountain of money and layers of bureaucracy.
Only those trying to show a sense of holier than though give a rats posterior.
When the day comes that our current PM is no longer guiding this country we will PAY!!
What the hell is a “cultural genocide”? Recessive genes not reproducing when exposed to a culture?
Cultural Genocide??? If this were the case, there would be a lot fewer First Nations people around that are currently. The use of that term is both a HUGE BOLD FACE LIE and insulting to generations of Canadians who settled here and worked to build Canada. Read http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/jackson-doughart-call-residential-schools-almost-anything-else-but-dont-call-them-genocide
This will only perpetuate the “I’m a victim…you need to pay me” culture we are slipping evermore into every day. My Daughter, who will graduate high school this year said something very poignant yesterday “I will have to leave Canada after my University education so I can live and raise a family without being taxed financially and emotionally by these parasites. Things like this are sure to doom this country and no one will be left to pay for it”. Pretty strong commentary from someone who is young and idealistic!
There are more truths than we care to hear i what Ezra is saying. I am afraid more now than every for my Canada.
The left engaging in and propagating “American style” identity politics…where is Elizabeth Thompson with a breathless piece on this outrage..?..
Canada has fostered an education system whose most studied graduates recommend redress for forcing folks into an education system.
Does a great job of shining a spotlight on the professional racists of Canada.
A whole industry devoted to demeaning anyone with 1/16th or more, via low expectations, sneering insult and systemic robbery.
Our Natives need to recognize the kind of “help” they are being smothered by.
I was behind a guy in line the other day when he presented his “status card” and got out of paying taxes. This dude was whiter than me and had one hell of a fine red beard. He was as native as Susan Warren. It is time to treat everyone the same and be done with this many nations in one nation crappola. I am sick and tired of shelling out for everyone who is “special’ just because my mom and dad were merely of European DNA stock.
The basic fallacy here is that the res schools caused the dysfunction among natives. It is assumed that they’d be happy, fulfilled, contributing peoples had the res school system not been implemented.
The true fact is that alcoholism was rampant long before the res schools were brought in. Just read a bit of Canuck history and it’s clear. Furthermore, in almost every case where “primitive” societies come up against “modern” societies, the result is very rapid unraveling of the aboriginal culture and almost always alcohol is the root cause.
In a world dominated by progs, common sense and scholarly thought has been banished. We have entered the age of the low-fo.
My greatest problem with Mr. Harper is that he has more or less left the vast prog regime in place … all those years as PM and the whole prog system in still solidly entrenched at the fed level, waiting for the kid or the commie to step in. I cringe.
Did the report have any evidence to back up it’s assertion of ” cultural genocide “. Did it define ” cultural genocide”?
“My greatest problem with Mr. Harper is that he has more or less left the vast prog regime in place … all those years as PM and the whole prog system in still solidly entrenched at the fed level, waiting for the kid or the commie to step in. I cringe.” As we should because the payola will get worse, much worse.
And another thing that is off topic, but PM Harper also left all of Bill C-68 in place except for the registry and either the pretty face or the commie might well get the chance to build on that once again.
kuzo @ 3:35, actually we are #4, as he is also busy pandering to the Islamists.
You have most things right, and this nonsense should be an Election issue for all of Canada. The law of the land (when I attended school in the 40’& 50’s) required ALL children to attend School…Do all non-aboriginal children also get compensation.
I don’t condone the abuse in the residential schools or in any other school
The Justice Sinclair didn’t allow cross-examination of any testimony, may not have been truthful…A sham report that is almost illiterate.
Quoting a SCOC Justice remarks RE: Genocide, smacks of judicial corruption.
One thing never mentioned or even implied. Most of these residential schools were on or near Indian reserves. For the most part the kids weren’t totally removed from the lives of their families. That the school taught only English or French and didn’t allow Indian languages is reasonable. I’ve never heard anyone complain about not being allowed to speak English in French immersion class.
6000 out of 150,000 kids who attended these schools died. In pre-antibiotic, pre-vaccination days, was a 4% death rate over 8 years (1/2 % per annum) all that unusual given that natives had poor immunity to introduced diseases.
I see that some eco-green nuts were holding a big protests against Govenor Walker in a iceberg boat and dressed as moose the dumb thing capsized on the idiots they were part of some dumb liberal groups AMERICANS UNITED for CHANGE darf granola munchers cant match wits with this cleaver old shorebird
If you can believe it, Ezra missed a Muslim connection in this list.
Section 49 calls on all religious denominations and faith groups to reject the principle of terra nullius, the sensible attitude the British and French and Spanish had which was “there’s nobody here, so I guess it’s first come first serve”.
This would include Muslims, I suppose. There are three action items with “all denominations and faith groups” references which mean the TRC expects Muslim leaders to do more than Indian Chiefs (who don’t get any action items).
The big thing about Section 49 is that terra nullius is a real thing with real world implications. Specifically, the Bi’r Tawīl Triangle, the 800 square mile unclaimed area in between Egypt and Sudan that is alternately claimed and disputed by each side. Obviously these would be Muslim countries arguing over the territory meaning that the TRC expects Egyptian Muslim groups in Canada to reject their own land claims.
Anything that calls for ramping up funding for the Mother Corpse, immediately loses all credibility.
I’m still trying to see what a cell phone or a motorized boat has to do with native culture!
The media has been singing the praises of this Report all day on every TV network like it was the New Magna Carta or Constitution.
Thanks,Ezra, for showing us the truth: it has nothing to do with helping the average Indian and everything to do with enriching the lawyers and politicians in the Indian Industry. The new T&R bureaucracy will undoubtedly expand into the thousands within a few years.
The T&R commission will permanently install official apartheid in Canada, especially if the Boy Wonder becomes the next PM.
I am truly terrified for our future.
Ezra is more or less bang-on in his criticism of this circus. He is wrong in his conclusion that this will lead to racism as it is already firmly entrenched in the Indian Act. The Indian Industry under the mentorship of the SCOC and its permanent ruling and PC legislation creating bench, is in the process of reversing the apartheid inherent in the Indian Act. This means stripping sovereignty from the Crown and granting it to the creations of the Act, the reserve system of dystopian communist enclaves of racial purity equal to and greater than 1/16 Indian. The Indian Industry believes that all Canadian land is owned by FNs and the 97% who don’t have 1/16th purity are tenants without property rights obligated to pay the FN communist enclaves ad infinitum – quite the reconciliation!
As far as the SCOC is concerned, two words – term limits.
They want every amenity the white man has to offer but want to maintain all the failed traditions inherent in their lifestyle. Not only that, but I find “truth and reconciliation” a insult to the people it really applied to. It’s like a cheap Chinese knock off in the hands of these perpetual victims that cost taxpayers over 10 billion a year. Any mother of a large family can point out that if you don’t treat all your children equally, you are begging for problems somewhere down the road. We are already too far down that road. I would rather the message was, “get a life, get a education, get a job and get out of our wallets. The whole subject of Indian victimization is moving from annoying to downright stupid. Thank you Mr. Harper for seeing this for what it is. At least for now. I’m sure the CBC and their far left followers will continue to double down. It’s what they do. To the wild applause of like minded fools. Whites will be a minority in less than 40 years. Then what ? You think immigrants will give a damn ? I doubt if they do even now. It’s the 21st century. Get on board, because you can never go back. Stupidity may be inherent but it has a expiry tag that far too many lawyers and politicians ignore. Grow up. Get a life. Yes Justin and Mulcair, that means you too.
It all sounds rather like “sovereignty-association” without the expectation that the sovereign aboriginal bantustans have any responsibilities to the association or, in fact, to their own people.
Well said Ezra.
This is also interesting.
Mr.Mansbridge interviews Justice Sinclair;
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2668649981/
In the last 2 minutes Peter asks, in reference to ‘Idle No More’; ” When you saw what happened in Missouri and in Baltimore and in Cleveland and in other American cities where certain segments rose up and said that we’re not going to take it anymore, did you see parallels there ? ”
Sinclair deftly deflects, but the intent of the question is there.
Why ?
BTW, “certain segments” ???
The CBC and the parasites on the left are inflaming unrest. Their constant use of the term ‘genocide’, the never-ending laying of the blame at the feet of the current gov’t, the refusal to tell both sides of any political story or to report the flaws of their crony’s arguments all point to that.
The CBC has gone past bias and partisanship. They have crossed over to evil. They are a cornered rat. They will stir up trouble and then lay the dead at the feet of PM Harper and ask “Why did you allow this to happen?”.
One more thing.
Today in the House of Commons question period, Tommy rose up and he acknowledged that he was standing on unceded Algonquin territory. That is not going to help the situation at all.
Not to be outdone, Justin rose up and also said that he was standing on unceded Algonquin territory and the Liberal party would ensure that the Algonquins had the necessary seeds to grow their crops.
MY guess is that OSOYOOS BC FN CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE was never involved in the RECONCILIATION process!
Why is this all occurring now? Election year,of course. The Indians are trying to suck more money using whine power. The NDP and Liberals will give their sympathies latching onto the catch phrase,”cultural genocide” coined by Chief Justice McLachlin. If this isn’t leftist activism rearing it’s head I don’t what it is.
It very much appears the Indians want to remain a separate “nation” from Canada, lay claim to any land they wish and continue to take money from the tax paying citizens of Canada. Meanwhile, continue with the big whine and complaints, drag up old issues and new grievances and NEVER let them die no matter how many times the governments of the Canada of today apologize.
Things have to change but who is going to make those changes? Who has the responsibility to make changes?
It’s useless saying something has to give when we know that will not happen either but we will keep on giving, pouring money into a big black hole.
Canada has far too many stupid people to survive as a nation.
If you go to http://www.trc.ca you will find a video entitled ‘How should people feel?’ What I feel is unprintable.
At my second job, I used to get up in the middle of the night to prepare an airplane at -35C temperatures on Baffin Island so that an all-white crew could fly into a gravel strip to pick up a patient and medevac them to Frobisher Bay. If there was a head trauma, the plane would be refuelled and continue to Montreal at a cost of $25,000 1987 dollars all of which was paid for by the taxpayers. That hardly sounds like genocide or neglect to me.
Regarding recommendation 86, I guess freedom of press is now a wholly American concept in addition to speech.
This is such a typical proggy-style love-in – a big guilt orgy where each self-flagellating proglodyte tries to out guilt the other as the rapacious racketeers from the indicant industry salivate over the percentage of fed income they will accept to salve their counterfeit claims.
Well, I had nothing to do with any presumed damages they say they suffered (before they were born) before I was born, – if they are waiting for apologies or shake down cash from a fully unapologetically guiltless man they’ll die of old age first. No wonder they always petition progs, they know these people are mentally ill and irrational enough to accept a fallacious shake down as a moral scratching post.
It wasn’t much of a genocide if we’re constantly hearing about this stuff.
I get the feeling that these grievance mongers are going for broke due to the change in demographics of this country. Awful
hard to play the white guilt card to a potential PM Singh.
Re. Mulclaire’s declaration. You cannot get any more imbecilic than that (well demand more CBC funding perhaps).
Do-good touchy-feely leftism is why the Indians are in this racial dug-out. This is a charter for the aboriginal industry, not aboriginals.
It calls for the adoption of the UN declaration on indigenous peoples. Ha! Since when does the UN govern Canada? Also, said declaration doesn’t actually define indigenous – are we not all indigenous to the planet?
I just ran across a typical CBC Holocaust-invoking headline: “Children of residential school survivors share their stories.”
I knew for many years a “First Nations” worker in the B.C. school district where I worked as a principal. I knew her so long that I remember when she was a “Native” worker and subsequently “Aboriginal” worker.
She often talked of her time in a residential school and how much that positively influenced her life. Funny, she didn’t present as as a “survivor” of a “cultural genocide camp” to me.
Watching Ezra at least takes my mind off how bad things are right now in my current country of residence, the U.S.A.
Reconciliation: Old Ojibwe word meaning, “Papoose of Whiteman’s great, great, grandson owes me bigtime.”
The evidence upon which this report is based is certainly selective. There used to be large numbers of Indians who spoke positively about residential schools. Being taken out of the bush where food was scarce and given 3 meals daily plus clean quarters and an education must have seemed like heaven. The experience of those who could not conform wouldn’t have been good but I suspect it was a minority. The Bush Nazis have silenced all positive opinion of residential schools.
Compensation for abuse was based on telling a good story. Taking it up the wazoo got as much as $250,000 cash. The Indians themselves called this arse money and were skeptical of many of the claims. There was no penalty for telling a lie and endless number of people who didn’t even attend residential school put in claims.
The whole process was built on lies and went downhill from there. Perpetuating the Indian industry harms the Indians more than it helps them and this whole report is just another statement demanding more bureaucracy when it is obvious to everyone but those who directly benefit that what is needed is less bureaucracy.
This report will be milked for all it is worth during the run-up to the Federal election in an attempt to make Harper and the Conservatives look bad and to extort federal monies and concessions.
I expect that Joe Molnar is right about Chief Louie not being involved in this Stalinist show trial.
The one consistent pattern in the reports is that it calls upon ‘the federal government, all levels of government, corporations, Law Societies of Canada, et al to do this or that’ but they do not call upon the aboriginal peoples to take responsibility for themselves at all.
as an example
23. We call upon all levels of government to:
i. Increase the number of Aboriginal professionals working in the health care field.
The idea that aboriginals should study hard and become health care professionals on their own merits like everyone else doesn’t occur to them, instead the government will wave a magic wand and poof! there’ll be aboriginal doctors and nurses and paramedics.
Scar that is all too true. Some of the local natives thought it was quite a joke that they could claim money for something they didn’t have a part of. Sometimes having a parent that was a student was all that was required because you know, Dad was damaged for life and he damaged his family etc. etc.
This. oldwhiteguy nailed it. Barring some of the less flakey parts of our country (Alberta, Saskatchewan, maybe Newfoundland) separating, we might as well throw in the towel right now and let China march in and take over. Leftists love communism anyway, let the apparatchiks put the useless little $hits to work in real jobs so they can prove their sincerity.
Worth mentioning too that if I was PM, I’d torch the document in a wastebasket on national TV and advise aboriginal Canadians that they are going to be treated exactly like every other person in Canada – NO privilege whatsoever based on ethnicity.
I like one of the recommendations: I’d absolutely initiate proceedings for a new staturory holiday – it would be called called GFY Day. A day for every sane Canadian to walk up to any protestor or “activist” and yell the magic, liberating words…well, you know what they are. 😀
A masterful and scholarly presentation by Ezra Levant.
I would not wish to be seen as a naysayer regarding one Peter Mansbridge. I would warrant few persons caught a quick intonation by him a couple of days ago. He was commenting on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations.
He said that if certain recommendations were not carried out, there could be something like FERGUSON happening. I could scarcely credit my hearing. It was slipped in so quickly and then dropped.
He used the word FERGUSON. That I am absolutely sure of. Unbelievable, I will concede.
A masterful and scholarly presentation by Ezra Levant.
I would not wish to be seen as a naysayer regarding one Peter Mansbridge. I would warrant few persons caught a quick intonation by him a couple of days ago. He was commenting on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations.
He said that if certain recommendations were not carried out, there could be something like FERGUSON happening. I could scarcely credit my hearing. It was slipped in so quickly and then dropped.
He used the word FERGUSON. That I am absolutely sure of. Unbelievable, I will concede.
Reference my statement that Peter Mansbridge used the word Ferguson in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
To my chagrin I then saw the name of the Auditor General. Michael Ferguson. If this was the reference by Peter Mansbridge, I stand to be corrected. Somehow I do not think it was though. That name has been referenced in regard to the hearings.
If Canadian voters are paying attention they may notice that they are now number 3 on Mulcair’s list, trailing Quebecers and Aboriginals.
And probably lower.
I’m all for attention at the highest level regarding the plight of the natives outlining the
– infantilization and victimization of the native people
– reparations collectively and individually owed the native people
– consequence for natives’ “cultural genocide”
BY THEIR LEADERSHIP AND COHORTS IN THE NATIVE INDUSTRY.
I’ve personally had enough with ineffective/crooked native leadership creating the very conditions they decry demanding WE do something about it. OTOH how about a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the mismanagement of pilfering from native communities by their leadership?
When Chief Spence was picked up from her hunger strike on the Rideau Canal by her (later charged with fraud) boyfriend in a CADILLAC ESCALADE, I knew then the native leadership was unconcerned with their hypocrisy, corruption or incompetence.
I DON’T CARE IF SOMEONE THINKS IT’S RACIST (OR APPARENTLY “ILLEGAL”) TO SAY SO, BUT IT’S NOT OK TO SCREW OVER YOUR PEOPLE AND BLAME OTHERS WHILE YOU LIVE THE LIFE OF RILEY.
This report perpetuates that attitude and should be exposed for the ideological self-serving document it is. Send all Aboriginal affairs cash to the natives themselves so they can vote for the leadership and services they reserve. That’s the solution to the “problem.” Allowing these bureaucratic clowns to negotiate “nation to nation” with the government and taxpayers of Canada for natives’ benefit is unacceptable because time and time again it has proved an abysmal failure designed to keep the natives under their thumb, in poverty, in despair so their victimhood can be exploited for personal gain.
And it’s a political loser Mr Mulcair – your comments show that you, like Justin, are not ready for prime time:
Mulcair calls for ‘nation to nation’ approach after residential schools report
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-calls-for-nation-to-nation-approach-after-residential-schools-report-1.2404572
“While the Prime Minister said the government would review the recommendations, he did not commit to taking any specific steps. Harper met with TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair privately Tuesday to discuss the TRC’s findings.”
That’s what leaders do rather than pontificate and toy with the prosperity and freedom of all Canadians, including natives. Shame on Mulcair and Trudeau for their naïve & naked political opportunism; another quiver in the bow for Mr Harper when battling these two spendthrift, utopian doofuses who both seem to be bereft of any common sense or fiscal awareness.
The native people need proper leadership, not endless & ongoing consultations, commissions or reports that benefit the Indian industry and their rent seeking chiefs.
“It wasn’t much of a genocide if we’re constantly hearing about this stuff.”
What I ask is, “Genocide? What, did we run out of bullets or something?”
All the Indians claim they were exempted from taxation, but the British loved taxing things and if they had meant to genocide the Indians, they would have at least tried taxing them to death.
Here is Part 1 section f from the Mandate for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=7
(f) Produce and submit to the Parties of the Agreement2 a report including recommendations3 to the Government of Canada concerning the IRS system and experience including: the history, purpose, operation and supervision of the IRS system, the effect and consequences of IRS (including systemic harms, intergenerational consequences and the impact on human dignity) and the ongoing legacy of the residential schools;
I think the process has been hijacked by the “Indian Industry” to keep the dough rolling in.
“I think the process has been hijacked by the “Indian Industry” to keep the dough rolling in.”
Ironically, the Indian lawyers in the ‘Indian Industry’ received their primary educations in either Residential Schools or white Canadian adoption homes.
Except it was the Harper government that called this commission in 2007.
I truly think the public has lost patience for this pandering and wants real action, not “solutions” from those who are clearly a big part of the problems facing natives in their communities.
There is a link to what you are talking about up above at; ‘ wallyj June 3, 2015 3:15 AM ‘
other than the schools. the roads , security , water supply,education ,welfare , what have the whitefolks ever done for us.?
Chief Fishbroth
I rest easy knowing I am not a guilty white liberal. Ezra states the lawyers and politicians and bureaucracy are rubbing their collective hands at the possible new mountain of money and layers of bureaucracy.
Only those trying to show a sense of holier than though give a rats posterior.
When the day comes that our current PM is no longer guiding this country we will PAY!!
What the hell is a “cultural genocide”? Recessive genes not reproducing when exposed to a culture?
Cultural Genocide??? If this were the case, there would be a lot fewer First Nations people around that are currently. The use of that term is both a HUGE BOLD FACE LIE and insulting to generations of Canadians who settled here and worked to build Canada. Read http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/jackson-doughart-call-residential-schools-almost-anything-else-but-dont-call-them-genocide
This will only perpetuate the “I’m a victim…you need to pay me” culture we are slipping evermore into every day. My Daughter, who will graduate high school this year said something very poignant yesterday “I will have to leave Canada after my University education so I can live and raise a family without being taxed financially and emotionally by these parasites. Things like this are sure to doom this country and no one will be left to pay for it”. Pretty strong commentary from someone who is young and idealistic!
There are more truths than we care to hear i what Ezra is saying. I am afraid more now than every for my Canada.
The left engaging in and propagating “American style” identity politics…where is Elizabeth Thompson with a breathless piece on this outrage..?..
Canada has fostered an education system whose most studied graduates recommend redress for forcing folks into an education system.
I think a Saskatchewan premier predicted this
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/hiv-rates-on-sask-reserves-higher-than-some-african-nations-1.3097231
Fish broth all around
Does a great job of shining a spotlight on the professional racists of Canada.
A whole industry devoted to demeaning anyone with 1/16th or more, via low expectations, sneering insult and systemic robbery.
Our Natives need to recognize the kind of “help” they are being smothered by.
I was behind a guy in line the other day when he presented his “status card” and got out of paying taxes. This dude was whiter than me and had one hell of a fine red beard. He was as native as Susan Warren. It is time to treat everyone the same and be done with this many nations in one nation crappola. I am sick and tired of shelling out for everyone who is “special’ just because my mom and dad were merely of European DNA stock.
The basic fallacy here is that the res schools caused the dysfunction among natives. It is assumed that they’d be happy, fulfilled, contributing peoples had the res school system not been implemented.
The true fact is that alcoholism was rampant long before the res schools were brought in. Just read a bit of Canuck history and it’s clear. Furthermore, in almost every case where “primitive” societies come up against “modern” societies, the result is very rapid unraveling of the aboriginal culture and almost always alcohol is the root cause.
In a world dominated by progs, common sense and scholarly thought has been banished. We have entered the age of the low-fo.
My greatest problem with Mr. Harper is that he has more or less left the vast prog regime in place … all those years as PM and the whole prog system in still solidly entrenched at the fed level, waiting for the kid or the commie to step in. I cringe.
Did the report have any evidence to back up it’s assertion of ” cultural genocide “. Did it define ” cultural genocide”?
“My greatest problem with Mr. Harper is that he has more or less left the vast prog regime in place … all those years as PM and the whole prog system in still solidly entrenched at the fed level, waiting for the kid or the commie to step in. I cringe.” As we should because the payola will get worse, much worse.
And another thing that is off topic, but PM Harper also left all of Bill C-68 in place except for the registry and either the pretty face or the commie might well get the chance to build on that once again.
kuzo @ 3:35, actually we are #4, as he is also busy pandering to the Islamists.
You have most things right, and this nonsense should be an Election issue for all of Canada. The law of the land (when I attended school in the 40’& 50’s) required ALL children to attend School…Do all non-aboriginal children also get compensation.
I don’t condone the abuse in the residential schools or in any other school
The Justice Sinclair didn’t allow cross-examination of any testimony, may not have been truthful…A sham report that is almost illiterate.
Quoting a SCOC Justice remarks RE: Genocide, smacks of judicial corruption.
One thing never mentioned or even implied. Most of these residential schools were on or near Indian reserves. For the most part the kids weren’t totally removed from the lives of their families. That the school taught only English or French and didn’t allow Indian languages is reasonable. I’ve never heard anyone complain about not being allowed to speak English in French immersion class.
6000 out of 150,000 kids who attended these schools died. In pre-antibiotic, pre-vaccination days, was a 4% death rate over 8 years (1/2 % per annum) all that unusual given that natives had poor immunity to introduced diseases.