How is it that VDH Knows More About Canada Than Every Single Leftist Canadian?

9 Replies to “How is it that VDH Knows More About Canada Than Every Single Leftist Canadian?”

1. A good summation here, and I do expect tribalism within the country to escalate greatly. Regionalism seems to be doing well in the west, why not toss race or religion into the mix as well? The Senate is pondering a bill to extend voting to 16 year olds. Oh that’ll help! lol..

2. Canada cannot spend $40,000,000,000 on defense anytime soon or in any useful way. Buiding a military from what is essentially scratch requires a plan and execution over years, or it will all get wasted in graft and corruption. Wait, more easy money for the Laurentian elite? We can do it tomorrow.

   1. $40,000,000,000 is less than we flushed down the toilet on battery plants that will never exist.

3. VDH is becoming intellectually lazy in order to align with Trump’s narratives – “dirty sulfurous heavy oil” that only the US can take off our hands? Military “spending” quotas on foolish neocon adventurism (NATO) is not defense spending. He got Carney right but that just proves he’s not an Eloi.

   1. You mean it’s not heavy? Or it’s not sulfurous? Or it’s not landlocked?

   2. I’m not seeing any laziness in VDH’s analysis.

4. How?
   Quite often an outside viewer will have a much more complete picture.
   Which is why Western Canadians see Canadian Politics so differently from our Eastern Comrades.

5. The one thing people are not willing to talk about is the “fact” that the lands of Saskatchewan were traditionally the lands of the Gros Ventre Indians, prior to the fur trade. The Cree were used by the fur trading companies to push the Gros Ventre south as the Gros Ventre were not interested in trapping for furs. The Gros Ventre followed the buffalo and wintered in the south, with the buffalo herds.

   If you dig into the history of the Cree, Assiniboine, and Saulteaux you find they entered southern Saskatchewan after the Americans signed treaties with the Blackfoot and Gros Ventre and forced them to stay on their reserves. This happened around the middle of the 1860s. The Cree, Assiniboine, and Saulteaux signed treaty in the early 1870s.

   The Gros Ventre were known as the Falls Indians or the Rapids Indians because a few of them spent their lives in the present Nipawin area. Some speculate a few of them also lived near the Nistowiak falls near present Stanley Mission.

   That leaves the premise that Canada signed treaty with the wrong Indians.

   1. The Cree were on the Great Plains in the 1760’s, not the 1860’s. The Assiniboine may have been a good deal earlier. The Saulteaux didn’t get there until the 19th century, after the Selkirk colonists. It would be fairer to say that the fur traders cooperated with and took advantage of the Cree, rather than “used” them. The Cree in those days very much had their own agendas.