Canada has paid billions upon billions to rectify past wrongs — figures that supersede what we spend on the military, and yet are still not enough.
Here’s a partial list: $23 billion to settle the lawsuit for the government not adequately covering the costs of Indigenous children in care; $1.72 billion to cover the cost of farming equipment that was promised to Saskatchewan First Nations 150 years ago but wasn’t provided; $14.9 billion to resolve special claims since 1973; $1.1 billion to settle a lawsuit by patients of federal Indigenous hospitals; $1 billion to an Alberta First Nation to adjust 19th-century treaty payments to modern dollars and $10 billion to another in Ontario, opening the doors to other nations doing the same.
And there are many more on the way. Some Manitoba First Nations are suing Manitoba Hydro for a share of the energy company’s profits, some Ontario First Nations are seeking $95 billion and the power to halt all development in Treaty 9 land without Indigenous consent. It all adds up to complete economic stagnation.
The Liberal government’s attitude of pulling punches and paying claims out the nose — and appointing judges who are open to the idea of more and more compensation — has swelled this into a problem of scales hard to comprehend. Oh, and when anyone points out the sheer cost of all this, they can expect to be accused of perpetuating the “colonial mindset.”
Be careful there, buddy.
They don’t call it the “Indian Industry” for nothing…
Well, now that the fork is in Canada, at least the Indian $ will dry out…right?!?
My favorite part is how courts issue judgements based on the present value the “colonizers” extracted from these lands, as if peoples who hadn’t figured out how to use the wheel and communicated through pictographs or knotted cords were also on the path to an Industrial Revolution if left alone.
I say they owe billions in royalties, for all the White Man tech they’ve been using for the last 150 years.
Let’s not forget the genocide they inflicted on the world. How many tens of millions have died around the world due to the various cancers that were caused by the tobacco they gave us? They should be held accountable for that. /sarc off (maybe)
We gave em whisky,
they gave us tobacco.
Call it even.
Not even close.
Canada (WTF that is?) cowers in the face of indigenous grifters, cowers in the face of the CCP, cowers to the Americans, cowers to the environmental nutters, cowers to politically correct woke BS, and anything else they can find to be afraid of.
Canada tolerates everything because it lacks the courage to stand for anything, a coward nation top to bottom. Afraid of of failure, but much more terrified of the responsibility that comes with success, it is a stain on humanity and unworthy of surviving, which it won’t. Good riddance, Shithole.
L – There is a reason “Be No Afraid” is the most common phrase in the Bible. There have always been many things to fear. The antidote is action in the face of fear. The tales action heroes, that inspired the generations that built Western Civilization. The faced down their fears, voluntarily. Prof. Jordan Peterson repeatedly explains that clinical psychology has proven the talking part, the dialog allows the patient to order their thoughts and then see the best way of dealing with those fears themselves.
The Freedom Convoy initiated by the knights of the road scarred Justin, the bad actor, that he ran away and became the “coward of the county”. When Eva Chipiuk, a petite, blonde lawyer asked Trudeau; something like “When did you become afraid of Canadians?” He was toast.
The young adults seeing their future stolen from them need some inspiration to challenge their energy. Gratitude for the opportunity and acceptance of the sacrifice required to prevail is how our ancestors carved Canada out of the oft frozen wilderness.
The spark was lit. The bad government can and will be replaced by one that actually solves problems. How soon and at what cost? Courage is contagious! Make it so, again and again.
Hear, hear.
To a certain degree my optimism comes from
reading the ever growing informative SDA commenters
over the last 20+ years.
Canada is exponentially worse off after 10 years of Trudeau, plus the previous 45 years of Liberal Partying,
but many have said this nation must drink the bitter dregs before she can begin recovery.
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup and the wine is red, it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same. But the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Psalm 75:8
What part of transferring the wealth of Western capitalist nations who built civilization … one invention … one factory tool at a time … don’t you understand? As Dr. Gad Saad so eloquently put it … we are committing suicidal empathy. Emphasis on suicide … and fratricide as we are killing our own children’s futures too.
Think about just one of those items- $1.72B for farm equipment. That’s 2300 new combines. Or, enough to equip 1500-1700 farms with good, late model equipment sufficient to farm 5-8 quarters profitably. 5-10 year old combine, air seeder, sprayer, older 4wd tractor, cultivator. I have lots of customers doing okay with exactly that kind of equipment.
And if you had someone like Trump as PM … he’d have mandated ALL the equipment purchased by public funds be spent on Massey Ferguson equipment, eh?
And it was the sainted JWR who established the rule that First Nation’s claims couldn’t be questioned beyond “How Much?”
Followed by Trudeau’s UNDRIP and unthinking woke agenda. We really need a Doctor No and a government run by adults.
JWR will never be sainted, and I’m sure that is tongue in cheek, but at least she had the stones to tell that little faggot Trudeau to F Off, he was so coward and emblematic of post national Canada that he (it) had to get the little beta cuck Wernick to try and do his dirty work for him.
Look no farther (the correct word; not “further”) than the Delgamuukw decision by the Supreme Court in 1997, which recognized, by default, aboriginal ownership of the land. This was an in-your-face example of how lawyers (judges included, of course) can take no-brainer situation and turn it into a legalistic nightmare. Earl Muldoe (Delgamuukw) was a friend, and I’ll bet that sensible man that he was, he was astounded that Canada would actually fall for that aboriginal ownership gambit.