Back in 2006/2007 the aboriginal leaders of Canada got together to meet about how best to use promised increases in federal aboriginal funding. The mix included elite representatives of the Inuit, Metis, Non-Status and certified First Nation’ers. Behind closed doors the ‘meeting’ dissolved into a screaming match with the tension of a brawl as they argued about who deserved more of the pie due to their indianess. That argument has never ended… You see the same thing with big name sports names – that guy is making 1.5 million so I should be making 1.5 million – that is where this is going to go and the complaints should be hitting the wall soon (if not already). The court has in actuality, removed the exclusivity of the various types of aboriginal people. We will see cordial congratulations from other groups such as the FN’s but keep in mind that the older argument has never went away and neither has the greed. I bet my toque, that what is to come will be a few more years of arguments in court deciding who gets what and who decides who gets what. This is Canada, you just can’t treat everyone the same…
Given the Failure Of Government To Meet The Needs Of First Nations Peoples®, you’d think they’d be fighting to stay out.
The Lineup For Uselessness forms on the left.
Not recognizing the Canadian Cultural experience in an underpopulated (read limited number of tax-payers carrying the load) BROAD reach of geography the Supreme Court of Canada has dropped more than their ignorance on Canada they have possibly put the borders of Canada at jeopardy.
The crying of the Victim Cartel and the Cottage Industry which has built up over the last forty five Years is a Stain on Jean Chretie’n legacy for not being successful in providing Western Societal benefits to the far flung ancient immigrants or as is more appropriate on Pierre Elliot Trudeau for refusing to enable a reasonable discussion of the solutions to either abandon isolated communitiies or bring the communities within reach of the services which enhance the life of immigrants in the last four hundred years.
Why is Pierre Elliot Trudeau more cupable? Because the often stated maxim of his life was “Reason Above all”. Obviously this means Prime Minister Trudeau the Original abandoned Canada’s Most Vulnerable the ancient immigrants present, at the time and subsequent, Children to at least Two generations of neglect and abuse.
Trudeau Ones lasting legacy.
Consolidation and perpetuation of the Apartheid System.
Socialist Canada’s only enduring creation, besides debt.
Only a socialist would consider the perpetual enrichment of an enormous bureaucracy, at the expense of perpetual misery for a captive people, Success.
However the lawyers who feed around the edges of this foulness,will now gorge themselves on the wrangling over;’Who is Metis”?
Western Separation looks better each day, regardless of which political party holds power.
I suspect the real Metis,would be more than happy to be free and stay free of the help of Indian and Norther Affairs(Whatever they style themselves).
Louis Riel was right?
Just wrong in timing?
Don’t forget that it the “great” Peter Lougheed who told Trudeau there was no way he’d sign onto the constitution unless there was a specific reference to the rights (special! they’re special!) of Aboriginal and Metis. Trudeau had wanted to have everyone equal under the constitution, but caved to the pressure because . . . well, he wanted to bring home the constitution, even if he knew is was a big mistake to treat some people . . . as special!!! So of course blame Trudeau, but don’t let Lougheed get a free pass on this.
Wow. Are you wrong. The last thing Turdou 1 wanted was equal rights. Back under your bridge troll.
There will be a huge fight among the first immigrants. A home testing kit will have to be developed to establish ones bona fides.
You don’t look ‘native’ will become a common phrase – when the cash is on the table.
I think I might be 1/15th first immigrant. Just missed the cut. Darn.
sarcasm aside that maybe should of been 1/17th?
1/15th makes you hereditary chief.
Don’t they have a better name for Half-breeds than Metis. Truly speaking the Metis started as a French speaking mixed race culture located across the West with the main communities being Red River, South-Central Saskatchewan, the South Saskatchewan River and St. Albert. They were developed by horny French Canadian traders out of Montreal. The rest is cultural appropriation which we are told is bad.
Canada, the place where chemical determinism is the law of the land and where it gets stronger as it becomes more diluted.
No kidding. It was Pierre Trudeau who practically invented the Divide and Conquer Identity Politics that is the core election strategy which the LPC relies upon today to win elections.
(not defending Lougheed who was a Progressive to the bone)
Same size pie.
Many more forks.
What could possibly go wrong?
There will be a flood of applications for government dole from this. I’m buying shares in ancestry.ca.
There are many once special interest groups whom have now become registered trademarks.
Most of these groups have turned themselves and the governments who pander to them into
the BIG business they criticize and despise. Somehow the minority has become the majority,
at least until the money runs out.
Half bree-ed, that’s all I ever heard.
$12 Billion more dollars will go on Justin’s credit card(600,000 X $20,000 of taxpayer’s money per Indian).
But, if you were born in Canada, you are a native Canadian and indigenous to this land. The ruling was too exclusive, all born here suffer the effects of post-colonialism, either you have guilt based on your skin colour, or a sense of entitlement based on your skin colour etc. We all deserve the same hand-outs.
Breed judges, just like at dog shows, will need to be set up by government if the law remains racially exclusive.
Cher should marry the other Bono,then U2 can get free stuff.
Well I’ll be phequed. I’m hereditary chief? Who knew? Guess I’ll have to start acting like one…….
Hey guys, I don’t mean to spoil the glee, but there’s a catch: your winning Metis Bonanza ticket has to be “recognized by the Metis nation”. I’m pretty sure that translates as “approved by the Liberal Party”. If you’re going to try to cash in, I hope you’re on good terms with your local Grit elite.
so, just how much native blood should a Metis have in order to be Metis? When can my spouse collect back some of the tax dollars we have given in the name of Indian Affairs? She has DNA proof of native bloodlines…
An you thought more Residential School claims collected in New Newfoundland than actual registered natives was interesting. Wait until the government finds out that the only people without some native blood are Syrians.
You may be amazed by the number of new,undiscovered,Metis Nations this ruling will create.
Bend over and grab your Ankles Canada you just got 600,000 NEW Dependents……………
“The budget will balance itself.”
Give me a break… Pierre the Turdo was a tribalist franco who’s only goal was to destroy the English Canadian nation while granting “special rights” for his tribe of francos… worked like a charm too. Canadians have been forced to spend over a trillion dollars on little Pierres OLA (the forced to pay for french act). Perhaps you also missed the fact that it is Pierres Court of “Judges” (aka. Gods of the Turdo Charter) that have conjured up more “special rights” for half breeds. In Pierres country “group rights” will always trump equality, some tribe is always going to be more equal than another just as Pierres Charter intended. This latest Turdo Court dictate is not only undemocratic it is inherently unequal (Court sanctioned inequality) just as Turdos “group rights” by Court rule manifesto dictates.
“Don’t forget that it the “great” Peter Lougheed who told Trudeau there was no way he’d sign onto the constitution unless there was a specific reference to the rights (special! they’re special!)” Bruce
You can’t blame a Metis for asking for rights.. Peter Lougheed was a Metis. What did you expect?
Lougheed’s grandmother was a Hardisty. He was a Metis. As I said, Alberta might have a million.
So was Ralph’s wife Coleen.
Guess we all are now.
As a card carrying member of the MNS, I’ve never really expected or wanted anything out of it. I’m also a card carrying Conservative. But the country is now all about free shit, apparently. I’ll be taking all I can get.
Good point. Although there must be many people who have Siberian and/or French blood, the federal government is in no financial position to do DNA tests on large groups of people.
All that would have to be done is find a group of people to claim they are a new Metis Nation according to family Oral Tradition, and then have them recognize each other as members.
Easy Peasy Metis-sneezee.
shit, I wuz born on the other side of the pond, how can I get in on this damn scam????
Why,you just tell the truth like a Liberal.
Self identify like Grey Owl.
Dear Editor:
Let’s just remember that the day we ”White Citizens” decide to cut the purse strings on all this insanity, that’s the day the problem will end.
Yours truly:
Joe the taxpayer.
aaaaaand I bet the chieftans screaming match was done en anglais.
hmmmm? hey. you. ya you, the aboriginal. stop appropriating MY ancestral language.
use your OWN in official dealings and hire an interpreter. my side will also.
so shut yer native born YAP with the english.
The relationship between First Nations and Metis is already frosty, there is not enough money to go around now, but the courts have just added 600,000 potentiel clients, so that means that there will be even less money and when you threaten a rice bowel, things will get ugly.
There lives in OSOYOOS BC an FIRST NATIONS BAND whose CHIEF IS A MAN NAMED CLARENCE LOUIE.
Clarence Louie may well be the best CANADIAN person to KICK INDIAN / METIS ASS, IN CANADA ………………..ONCE AND ……………………FOR ALL TIME!
Given the growing evidence of Norse settlement in Newfoundland around AD 1000, we must consider the status of so-called native North Americans on that island. The purported native peoples of Newfoundland, the Beothuk, first are evidenced in archaeology only between AD 1400-1500. This is when the Beothuk culture first appears. It may have evolved from a prior culture, and the Icelandic Sagas do describe meeting skraelings in VInland. Also, the last of the Beothuk died in the 1820s.
This means that any so-called First Nations in Newfoundland have arrived AFTER the first European inhabitants. Now, as my ancestors were Vikings, from Scandinavia and the North of England, I believe I have an equal claim to be of the “First Nations” of Newfoundland. No?