One of highest honours Manitoba bestows upon individuals has been posthumously stripped from the disgraced former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. […]
Kinew drew a line through Eckhardt’s signature in the ledger of recipients to the award, established in 1957 to recognize individuals who have demonstrated outstanding skills in the areas of leadership, service and community commitment.
More at Black Rod.
h/t KP
He paid taxes? WTF is that all about? My daughter knows a blond Indian who lives on the back forty of a reserve who works in the real world but draws his salary from his own corporation resident on the reserve. An Indian who doesn’t know how to get out of paying taxes is incompetent to lead a province. You say he beats up women and cab drivers like they never had it coming, like it isn’t an Indian birthright. Cabbie was probably an East Indian, that’s reason enough, isn’t it?
I told everyone within earshot what a piece of work Wab is as the election went on.
After he won, I was speaking to an aboriginal woman who runs a business and she was absolutely gobsmacked when I told her what I knew of Wab.
She hadn’t heard any of it. Zero news coverage of any of his many misdeeds.
She went on to tell me that the NDP specifically targeted Manitoba natives which was not unexpected.
Of course, as soon as she heard about some of his exploits, she was pretty mad about being fed half truths leading up to his election.
The horse is out of the barn now though so Wab and company will spend the next 46 months running up as high a debt as possible to buy votes while the media runs cover for him.
Why do I stay here again?
But Gary Doer and Lloyd Axworthy said he was fit to serve. Next, you’re going to tell me that politicians sometimes don’t tell the truth.
And I heard of a prostitute who told dates she was a virgin.
How did she phrase it, exactly? (I suppose at some time she was a virgin.)
“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone…” Gospel of John
The thing that bothers me about these actions is that a whole lot of it is virtue signaling and those doing the signaling need to be squeaking clean – and the case of Wab, as reported by The Black Rod, good old Wab is not. His history of domestic violence has been hidden by the NDP and the media, and I don’t think Wab has even said sorry. But as we know – rules for thee but not for me.
The other thing that bothers me is that we are going to reach the point, particularly in the public sphere and politics, where the only people who are going to step forward are those with NO history – kind of like our current PM, And usually these people are walking, talking disasters in the public sphere because they have accomplished nothing. The unfortunate reality is that when you accomplish things, you will often offend someone in your path to accomplishing things.
I don’t know enough about the guy being erased, but it seems that this award was for his contributions to the arts – so unless he abused artists or arts organizations, I don’t really care about his ‘Nazi’ past. We let Freeland be Deputy PM even through her grandfather was an actual Nazi rather than the many people who, to live in Germany during the Nazi rule, had to submit or be killed. I know people whose fathers were in the Hitler youth because they needed to survive. I hate to admit it but I probably would have done the same thing.
I personally have no love loss for those that supported a murderous regime, least of all the Third Reich. But the universal lack of forgiveness and uber zeal to punish by those in Gov’t, the Judiciary and Media for anyone tainted by anything deemed distasteful in their past regardless of contributions is telling. That behaviour is cut from the same cloth. So what do we do with those who supported Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s Communist China or any murderous regime with proven track records of human rights abuses? What about eugenics lover Tommy Douglas? What about blackface wearing Metis woman jailing Prime Ministers? If the new rules apply to past Nazi sympathizers regardless of subsequent contribution, the new rules could apply to anyone. Btw aren’t there indigenous chiefs that have voiced admiration for Adolf? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/native-leader-applauds-hitler/article4140793/
Excellent points! Add Nellie McClung to the list. Also a eugenics proponent. Time to tear down her staute at the Leg.
Absolutely – by the standard being employed, good old Tommy would be on the trash heap, but as I commented – rules for thee but not for me, and the progressive left has excelled at that.
“I developed a mean streak. After a few beers I would shift from cracking jokes and having a good time to trying to mess with people. I would get in someone’s face and insult them until they either backed down or fought me.
Pish posh! No native I ever knew was like that. And I’ve know a few.
*Heavy Sarc*
A tale of two CBC articles.
The first, whitewashes and portrays Wab’s tainted history as “redemption.”
The second, completely ignores any possible redemption of someone who is accused of supporting Nazis by the subject of the first article who himself has a criminal past.
The disconnect is truly remarkable.
The Ceebs must really think Canadians are that stupid not to see through this, but then again, the Ceebs may be right, given my personal experience with disconnected Canadians.
And of course the big difference is that guy who is erased has been dead for 30 years and can NEVER defend himself, EVER.
Manitobans will fall for it guaranteed. While the conservatives deserved to be turffed, we’re in for (probably 8) years of top notch virtue signalling. Alphabet and Indigenous. It is going to be grrrreat!
So what did Eckhardt do that Chomiak didn’t?
I mean, good? We shouldn’t be honoring and celebrating Nazis. We just went through this a few months ago.
We shouldn’t be dishonoring the memory of honourable members of the community because of things they did when they were young and had never set foot here. Eckhardt was a better citizen and contributed far more to Manitoba than Kinew could ever hope to be or do. He’s smearing a good man out of petty jealousy and racist hate. Don’t back him.
There’s a display at the Parks Canada office in Riding Mountain national park (a hour north of Brandon, MB) that recounts the history of German pows who were interned in the park in WWII. They built alot of the infrastructure and the rustic log buildings that make the park so beautiful. Don’t know if they stuck around after the war, but I would imagine those that did contibuted greatly to Manitoba. More so than any of the recent refugees we’re taking in.
I’m sure the art gallary and the universities will return the unwanted monetary gifts.
Q: what do you tell the ex-girlfriend of the Premier of Manitoba with two black eyes?
A: Nothing she hasn’t already been told. Twice.
MB is circulating the drain with the massive debt they have racked up, a medical system that is pretty much non existent, housing crises, sky high taxes, levies and numerous other “fees”, people unable to afford rent and/or food, a school system that has been turned into a woke gong show, to name a few serious issues and Wobbly Canoe’s priorities so far have been creating an Orange Shirt stat holiday, changing the name of Bishop Grandon St to some unpronounceable Indian name, and now erasing some guys name that few if any people knew about or even cared.
On the bright side if he is busy with hollow virtue signaling it takes his mind off dreaming up more NDP tax grabs. No worries though, a ton of new punitive taxes will be coming, after all that is the Socialist way.