25 Replies to “Just Light A Fire And Burn It”

    1. “This will be 100 per cent First Nations owned”

      No it won’t; we will own it with our $10 million.

  3. The guy pictured in the background of the photo looks about as aboriginal as my Swedish grandmother. What a scam. What a scam.

  4. The problem has never been the building, it is invariably the operation, because those left on the reserves do no usually have the skills to operate the water treatment plants, because there are so many better paying opportunities outside there for those who identify as indigenous and are educated, especially with the lunatic focus on ESG scores.

    /of course bringing this up in “polite” company will get you labelled a “racist”

    1. Another reason may be a lack of properly qualified people.

      During my time at Armpit College, I had at least 3 students who I knew were natives. One, I believe finished and actually graduated. Another one showed up for the first year, but disappeared soon after he started his second year. The third one also made it into her second year but I don’t think she finished all of her courses and, like the second one I mentioned, vanished.

      I suspect the last two may have found jobs where a diploma wasn’t necessary or there were certain connections with such employers and what education they had while at AC was considered good enough.

    2. Yep, I remember reading an article about that very issue. Basically they asserted no one in the community was qualified to do daily water testing, never mind you dip a plastic strip into a water sample and compare it to the colored strip on the dipstick bottle. I can only shake my head.

      1. I heard that they don’t know how to use a screwdriver. I find that an exaggeration but it came from someone who had experience of the FN water scam.

    3. I enjoy listening to The Roy Green Show. About 2 or 3 years ago, one of his guests said there are 3 reasons why communities crumble.
      1. There isn’t anyone smart enough to maintain infra-structure.
      2. Money to support the community is stolen quicker than it is handed out.
      3. People who like infrastructure and not crime, move away.
      This applies to Democrat run cities and states, Canadian Indian Reserves (I do not know anything about American Indian Reserves) and to Canadian Liberal Cities/provinces.
      I lived in Calgary for 12 years and moved to Regina 8 years ago. Sadly, so many Liberals from Ontario and the East Coast moved to Calgary (and other parts of Alberta) that Calgary and Alberta are no longer conservative. I grew up in Edmonton, and because it is the capital of Alberta, there has always been a lot of graft/grifting in that city.

      1. because it is the capital of Alberta, there has always been a lot of graft/grifting in that city

        Yup.

        I noticed something similar about Fort St. John in the last 40 or so years. A lot of people moved there from Lotusland and the general conservative tone that I remembered from my youth isn’t there any more.

        In the last few years, I’ve also noticed more natives in FSJ, particularly in the downtown area. It seems that many of them don’t have a whole lot to do. Maybe they don’t need to work because they got good payouts resulting from Treaty 8.

  5. 10M? Barely worth the effort required to grift. hard to get the first Canadians excited by less than a 100M these days, inflation hits everything.

  7. Oh here we go again, billions have already been spent on clean water and instead of maintaining those water plants they basically ignore the standard procedure of daily water testing? If you refuse to admit your past failures and neglect, it’s going to keep happening.

  8. Last year I saved this thread by Sundance Construction. The owner is a FN woman. Somebody should listen to her. Just the first 5 tweets here. Read it all. Explains a lot:

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1438901841174089736.html?fbclid=IwAR3hmb8mfSfXzlMslMiTs7HYzbYvGb9k79hEMsRve540wpqgfvTS2UzNa-I

    “As I see the constant chatter about progress with FN infrastructure, I can no longer sit back and let this continue without a concise, and detailed explanation of what we see in regard to both FN Infrastructure, and other infrastructure

    “We have a serious problem with the construction of water treatment plants, sewage treatment and the distribution of both.

    “For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around why we cannot fix this. The Lib government says they have a plan…..

    “There is no way that anyone in Ottawa has a workable plan – and that is because they either do not understand the scope of the problem, or that they are “delaying, and distracting” in regard to a solution 3/
    I have done so many threads on how the projects are procured via ISC (INAC) but I can see that even that is not enough to accurately reflect what happens on the ground once a project starts. People ask me why projects fail – here it is folks, a big part of it.

    “Once Treasury allocates those funds via a contribution agreement with the FN, a design engineer is obtained and a process begins in which the high level estimates are done, and the project is actually engineered. This is also an invited low-bid situation believe it or not. “

    1. Sir, after reading this, I am convinced that no one on any level of government or on the reservations wants this to work but are happy that money is thrown around.

      The aboriginals are awfully good at holding up trains but won’t have such protests on their own land.

    2. Honestly I’ve reached the point where I’m prepared to say “here’s the budget for your water treatment plant in bloc, now you figure it out. Oh, your water sucks? Well, that’s 100% on you then. You want to claim you’re not a bunch of backward savages that need to be looked after by yt, then get your **** together on your own.”

  9. This is the same group of people who couldn’t/didn’t invent the wheel, didn’t have writing, were innumerate nor were able to domesticate any large animals despite having camels, horses and probably mammoths when they first came over the land-bridge from Asia. I’ll take “destined for resounding failure” for $800, Alex.

    1. But the FN peoples are … naaaaaaatural. Their culllllllture learned to live WITH nature … not conquer it. So what is this water treatment you speak of? The great turtle purifies the water by rolling and bubbling it over rocks, stones, and gravel. No intervention needed. Nature is perfect. And the native’s composting toilets (a hole in the ground) have been studied for years by the white man in a feeble attempt to replicate. Yes … the white colonial settlers know NOTHING about nature … unlike the gentle, noble, native. And how to keep warm? Rub two sticks together … what could be “greener”? I learned that from my middle school social studies teacher.

      But the $10M will help buy some new snow machines for the tribe … and those pickup trucks are getting bloody expensive. The stupid, white, euro-colonial settlers OWE us that … eh?

      1. There are ample historical documents attesting to Indians approaching the British settlements in a state of severe malnutrition, begging for food and in some cases pleading with the settlers to take their children because they couldn’t feed them.

        It takes a particularly aggressive effort at naivete to think that the Sino-Siberian inhabitants of the Americas – half of which get winter – somehow magically avoided the abysmal quality of life of every other neolithic tribe in the world. Prior to the 20th century, the wealthiest yt people had as many children as possible because so many of them died in childbirth/infancy, along with their mothers.

        1. REAL history has been replaced with a mythical “storytelling” of the Native culture. Ahhhh … good ol’ “storytelling” …

    2. Don’t forget metallurgy, at least not in N. America. Pretty good at basic pottery and weaving though.

      1. The tribes could carve the shit out of totems to their gods … oh … once they got steel knives from the white folk. And all that beadwork? Yeah … White men

  10. Just keep “priming the pump” with borrowed Chinese dollars, while Juthcastro cavorts in a parking lot in Alberta .
    Happy Stampede! He is however 17 K away at a LIBERAL FUNCTION no mention of that.
    He just loves him his dressup!
    Methinks he would have got a big Alberta welcome downtown , perhaps a native costume, , consisting of feathers held in place with good ole tar sands oil.
    I grew up on the west coast spent a couple of decades in the interior, (Mackenzie)
    When first contact was made, there were no roads, wells, agriculture, laws, etc.
    There was slavery, constant and relentless warfare 1/3 of every group were slaves on average
    My extended family include Metis, they worked for the HBC (here before Christ) figured it out and went independent to the chagrin of HBC .
    They were prosperous, successful until the second Northwest Rebellion, that enabled the crushing of any independent individuals
    They sent Riel to Ottawa ( where dreams go to die) so what has changed in 150 summers and winters?
    I tend to look at individuals as just that, some work and prosper, some don’t, free choice, paying people to sit around and remembering the “good old days” is financed failure
    The connected individuals do well on the Rez the ordinary people not so much, but don’t dare complain.
    Harper with his financial disclosure act made Band finances transparent, first thing sock-boi and his minions axed.

  11. Government and indigenous folks teaming up on a project of this magnitude is a sure fire formula for success.

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