This encapsulates the current self-induced national moral weakness: nativist advocates think that removing an effigy of the founder of our country and someone who was regarded by his peers in the time of Lincoln, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Bismarck as a great statesman is required because of largely unspecified offences in one policy area of his 28 years as head of Canada’s government (the so-called United Province of Canada, and then the Dominion of Canada), and even that would be a mere “gesture.” “Reconciliation” evidently consists of abject self-humiliation by the 95 per cent of Canadians who are not descended from the Indigenous peoples, and we have become so quaveringly enfeebled, we are expected to submit to this.
h/t Buddy
What, no staff mutiny or hair shirts at the National Post?
It’s Sunday, even our woke, enlightened, betters need a day off. However, I’m sure they’ll be busy fluffing their phony outrage and despicable talking points.
On Monday they’ll try to cancel Black like they tried with Murphy.
Definitely a firing offense.
He brought light to Trudeau’s pet Indigenous project.
Just add more of the 95% money to native projects and shake.
If they cancel Murphy and Black they become bird shit catchers.
BC’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (a splendid example of the somewhat rare double oxymoron) and its acolytes can no doubt lead the western charge, once the groveling Abbotsford School District has slunk off centre stage.
Black of course would never grovel.
We should all wear “I am Sir John MacDonald” t-shirts.
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IT AIN’T JUST CANUCKISTAN…
“The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon,
Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural
figures with supposed links to slavery.”
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Well written and stated, as usual.
Kids are probably being taught in Canadian schools that George Floyd was our first prime minister.
” … quaveringly enfeebled, … ”
Indeed. Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beasties. About 98.4 percent of our electorate.
How is erasing evidence of the history of this country through vandalism even allowed to go unpunished?
How is this governance at any level?
IMO it’s a national disgrace and treading into treasonous territory.
Too bad we have gutless wonders running the country with Indigenous people with perennial axes to grind calling the shots. They all need to show respect, respect is not a one way phenomenon.
I have three questions.
The first is – if you remove the symbolic image of one person- and the example is MacDonald, as a symbol of ‘white supremacy’ – does this mean that ‘white’ or any other colour of supremacy will vanish?
That is – does behaviour exist if and only if it is presented to us within a visual or other symbol? So – if we don’t see an image of someone shooting another person – does this mean that shootings will stop? If we don’t have a war memorial – will wars cease? If we don’t talk about someone helping another person – does this mean that altruism and care will cease? My question concerns the use of history and memory within our lives as a people.
My second question is: Are we, who are living in the same country as this statue-person – are we, merely by being human and in the same geographic domain – are we somehow bonded to his deeds? Are we accountable for all his deeds? Are we to be thanked for the railroad he built? Praised for his negotiations? My question concerns the reality of our individualism and the fact that we are, each of us, responsible only for our own deeds.
The Huron and Iroquois were frequently at war with each other; the Cree bands also fought with each other and with other native groups. Does this mean that all current Huron and Iroquois must fight with each other? All Cree must fight with each other?
My third question is: what does ‘white supremacy’ actually, functionally, mean? Is the claim that ‘if you have a white skin then you are a white supremacist’ – scientifically and logically valid?
The answer to your questions is this is their minimum demand, the least we can do is to give into their intolerant outrage.
If history is destroyed and we’re kept ignorant, then revisionism is easy, always followed by further control.
For them, 1984 is non-fiction, but a manual of operations, complete with chilling slogans.
The Iroquois basically slaughtered and scattered the Huron, who bet wrong on the French.
History is full of war and pillage and plenty of bad actors as well. Going after Sir John A. is akin to ripping the fabric of Canada.
All of Canada, the good the bad and the ugly, like the USA is an amazing living example of liberalism, not the purview of progressives, who are simply Marxists in waiting, iow totalitarians, who define rights as not from nature but from elites.
This is what we’ve voted for – one party rule by the incompetent and parasitic administrative state.
This failure to check authoritarianism will be the bane of it all as we ditch leaders who try to rescue us from the leviathan.
As Bill Good once said about Canadian voters, they elect Liberals and if they’ve had enough with the corruption, incompetent and overreach, they elect Liberals in other parties.
Then they kick them just as we’re climbing out of the hole – to PET the sequel. I weep for my nation – what’s left of it.
Shamrock – yes, you are absolutely right.
It’s the rejection of history- actual, factual history with all its pluses and minuses as referenced to some kind of unrealistic pure ideal. If we reject FACTS, actual historical facts of people and their deed, because they don’t measure up to our current seminar-room ideals – then, we become…what can I say…’cloud-dwellers’, people who are unconnected to reality. And people unconnected to facts, to reality – are then easily led by totalitarian dictators – who spout nonsense and we have no grounds to object.
And yes – our rights are from Nature – not from elites – who are only too ready to revise reality, rewrite our history, insist on our eternal sin and shame – and thus, move in as parasitic Rulers. That’s what we have now, in our current governments.
It doesn’t matter if it’s scientifically and logically valid – of course it should, but – it doesn’t. That’s the problem with all this. We’ve raised generations who are immature and irresponsible, they vote for lies that sound good, unworkable solutions to imagined problems.
Ironic: Nobody hates better than someone from the Grievance Industry.
Yep! Nothing screams tolerance like a 300lb lesbian.
Here are some numbers relative to the native population of Canada.
There are 1.7 million native aboriginals in Canada, https://www.bing.com/search?q=native+population+of+canada&form=ANNTH1&refig=44c3b23847d544ccb86cf03010a6a11d&sp=1&qs=AS&pq=native+population+of&sk=PRES1&sc=8-20&cvid=44c3b23847d544ccb86cf03010a6a11d
In three years, the government spent $16.8 billions to please the natives. It is not clear if the sum is for each year of for total of three years.
Now the government added an “investment” of $4. 5 billion over 5 years, https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1553716166204/1553716201560
If we take both sums to be $21.3 billion from 3 to five years we get the sum of $12,529 per person from infant to the oldest. It does not seem to be that much.
Here are some questions:
How much did the native population contributed in taxes?
How much of the money actually reaches the natives and specifically your average native.
How much is consumed by the federal and variety of self-serving natives, sort of the upper crust?
How is this money to be spent and what is the proposed end result?
Thinking here its the money thrown into the wind and it will land where ever the prevailing winds blow. In the end it will do nothing other than there will be additional money asked for and received and the natives will be essentially in the same situation as always.
Lev- yes, you are right.
Stephen Harper passed a law that said that the band leaders had to make public – to all the members of the band – exactly how much was received and how it was spent. That’s because, as you note, there is an ‘elite’ within the bands – and these elites were taking the money for themselves rather than spending it on the rest of the people. And – the band members were asking – HOW much is coming and HOW is it being spent? The band chiefs were refusing to say.
So- Harper passed this law of accountability. One of the very first things Justin Trudeau [he, of the Just Society] did – was to remove this law – and thus, enable the band elites to continue to steal from their tribal members.
Should read “It is not clear if the sum is for each year ‘or’ for total of three years.”
Of the so-called 1.7 million “native aboriginals” how many are more that 50% racially pure given the definition generally coincides with a status threshold of 1/16 or better purity. Metis are included and by definition, are a “muggled” race.
As someone who has been involved in treaty negotiations and consultations, I became very weary of sitting across the table from blond haired, blue eyed “Indians” with chips on their shoulders in the stratosphere.
The non-Indian component of the Indian industry (particularly the SCOC) has been nurtured into a guilt-induced Stockholm Syndrome and on its present trajectory is reversing apartheid rather than eliminating it. Erasing history and replacing it with dogma is just the beginning.
Isn’t it time we dispensed with the apartheid of the Indian Act and welcomed all concentrations of racial provenance to the Canadian human race as equals before the law. If there is ever some kind of “settlement” based on race, lets hope it is equitable, IOW, those with 1/16 of the racial lottery, get 1/16 of the benefit.
Agreed.
It will never happen though.
With the current gutless politicians and so many bureaucrats feeding of the current state, chances are none and zero.
“One of the very first things Justin Trudeau [he, of the Just Society] did – was to remove this law – and thus, enable the band elites to continue to steal from their tribal members.”
So typical of one who doesn’t think before he acts.
But in this case, the people who run Justin-the-Puppet WERE thinking. They were rewarding the band chiefs for their votes and their loyalty to the Elite-Agenda.
No one exploits natives more than other natives.
Imo exploitation usually is a result of exploiters from within, enabled by rent seeking “advocates.”
Native women, black inner cities, aggrieved Islamists, the poverty industry as a whole, PLO, the list goes on ad infinitum.
It’s that interaction between corrupt organizational leadership and their victim industry sycophants that engenders suffering.
Transactions of decline that exacerbate not solve problems, mostly because they’re ill-defined, are insanely repeated.
This is the basic model of modern governance, transactions of decline that increase their power and pauper the public.
When the whole thing crashes, they ride to the rescue of their own intolerance, dissidence cowed and sheeple indoctrinated.
When the least best in your society have the most power, you are of decadence and depravity – acquiescence your thin gruel.
L – “Anyone who can get you to believe absurdities. Can get you to commit atrocities. ”
*(some dead white guy, name starts with V)
First Nations is now racist coz it excludes the Inuit and other northerns who aren’t “nations”.
And that includes/excludes(?) aboriginals.
Indigenous is now “correct”. Is that Queen’s English?
Think I’ll just say “them”, or “you people”, thanks Don Cherry.
As long as there is an “Indian Act” on the books, I’ll call them That.