Category: We Are All Treaty People

The NDP’s Apartheid Ruminations

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If there were a referendum in Canada, asking whether all citizens should be treated equally or whether one group should have extraordinary powers and hold a veto over everyone else’s wishes, how might that vote turn out?
One thus has to wonder why Thomas Mulcair and the NDP are toying around with the idea of a future Canada divided along ethnic lines?
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John Ivison examines the strange happenings in the NDP “braintrust” in Ottawa. He also discusses the issue with Charles Adler. David Akin and Brian Lilley also discuss it here.

Silencing those Aboriginals Who Disagree with “Idle No More”

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Red Deer resident Anthony Sowan is a full status Cree Indian. And he doesn’t agree with Idle No More whatsoever. So he expressed his opinions publicly and this is what happened. Here’s his original Facebook posting that started the ball rolling.
When republished on the Huffington Post Canada, one Idle No More supporter inadvertently let the cat out of the bag about the real purpose of the movement:

Idle No More is about forming a socialist government, in equal partnership with Indigenous people and settlers, where building community, culture, and sharing is the common goal, not a capitalist selfishness, that borrows off the less fortunate. It’s a reverse way of thinking, contribute to my community FIRST, ask for what I need last. Not everyone gets it yet!

Kitimat LNG Gets Go Ahead

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From the press release;

The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, today announced new regulations that will allow the proposed Kitimat LNG liquefied natural gas facility on the Haisla First Nation’s Bees Indian Reserve No. 6 to proceed.
The Kitimat LNG facility will provide Canada’s energy producers with a doorway to overseas markets, in addition to creating jobs and economic growth opportunities for the Haisla First Nation and the entire northwest region of British Columbia.
“Our government continues to take steps that will contribute to job creation, economic growth and Canada’s long-term prosperity,” said Minister Duncan. “The Kitimat LNG facility will create well-paying jobs in British Columbia, while giving Canadian energy producers access to important overseas markets. I applaud the Haisla First Nation for their vision, leadership and commitment to seizing this opportunity for their community.”
The Haisla Natural Gas Facility Regulations were created under the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act (FNCIDA). FNCIDA was a First Nations-led initiative that allows the government to work with First Nations and provincial regulatory authorities to create regulations for complex commercial and industrial development projects on reserve.

Those dirty racists.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Let’s say that somehow, the eruption we’ve all agreed to call Idle No More results in a historic breakthrough between Ottawa and Canada’s diverse and deeply troubled First Nations.
Let’s say the covenant recognizes and affirms aboriginal and treaty rights and contains a specific, collaborative action plan to deal with the urgent challenges of aboriginal childhood education, economic development, First Nations governance and accountability. Plus it comes with a startup $275 million just to be sure the rubber hits the road. And it’s announced at a historic gathering in Ottawa with the senior First Nations chiefs, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and even Governor-General David Johnston.
Now let’s say along comes an obstructionist “movement” that masquerades as militant but is really a minority faction of eccentric and reactionary Indian band chiefs who are hopelessly devoted to the status quo. They set out to methodically undermine the agreement. They hijack the work plan. Within a year they’ve pretty well sabotaged the whole thing.

A terrific column by Terry Glavin.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Say, how’s that #idlenomore thing working out for ya?

The chief received an approval rating of 29 per cent in a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted exclusively for Global News and Postmedia News.
The survey suggests the Idle No More movement hasn’t garnered much sympathy for Canada’s First Nations, but rather, raised awareness about financial accountability on the reserves.
Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of poll respondents believe Canada’s First Nations receive too much federal funding. About the same number (62 per cent) believe Ottawa treats Aboriginals well.
But Aboriginals are also creating problems for themselves, according to more than half (60 per cent) of respondents.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Sheshatshui.jpg “When I was first “warned” about what to expect in Sheshatshui, a lot of it seemed really over-the-top to me, even racist at times. I heard so much trash talk about this town and its inhabitants, and so passionately told, that I wondered if people were hanging onto some kind of “grudge” that I didn’t know about. So many stories preceded my visit there and they all seemed extremely exaggerated.
Nevertheless, I took my camera and set out to take some photos.”

The post is from 2010. You’ll need to agree to a disclaimer before entering.

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Lawrence Martin;

Back in the days of Jean Chrétien’s government, I recall talking to a very senior player about the issue of accountability on first nation reserves. The Canadian Alliance was probing the matter, and there were allegations, nothing too specific, about spending abuses. Money disappearing down a black hole, that kind of thing.
Raising it with the Chrétien official, I recall being surprised when he said there was a basis for many of the allegations. It was a potentially a major scandal, he said. So why, I asked, was no one probing it? Too sensitive, he said. “We’d be accused of racism.”

That – and the Liberal Party contributions would’ve dried up.
Related – Why arrest when you can drum!
h/t Stan

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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CBC;

The accounting firm hired to audit the finances of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation reserve in northern Ontario says there is little or no documentation for millions of dollars spent by the band, CBC News has learned.
The unreleased audit was intended to ensure that more than $100 million provided by the federal government to Attawapiskat between April 2005 and November 2011 was spent as it should have been.
CBC News has obtained a copy of the audit. The funding was intended for housing, sewage, education and other services.
In a letter dated Sept. 20, 2012, that was written by Deloitte to Chief Theresa Spence and copied to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, that auditing firm says that of 505 transactions reviewed, more than 400 lacked proper documentation.
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Deloitte reported its finding to Spence in late August. It’s not known what she or the band council did in response to the findings.

I sense a blood clot coming on.


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