A painting of Pre-Contact Indigenous life
(not a Garden of Eden) pic.twitter.com/NFYDmFUCQe— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) November 23, 2024
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Alberta MP Randy Boissonnault has resigned from cabinet amid allegations about his business dealings and criticism of his shifting claims about his Indigenous ancestry.
“The prime minister and MP Randy Boissonnault have agreed that Mr. Boissonnault will step away from cabinet effective immediately. Mr. Boissonnault will focus on clearing the allegations made against him,” a spokesperson for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement. .
That Trudeau is a fickle one.
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#Pocahontas – come get your boy.
For years, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault spoke in Parliament and at public events of his great-grandmother as “a full-blooded Cree woman.”
Now, facing scrutiny over shifting statements he made about his connections to Indigenous ancestry and, presented with records suggesting otherwise, Boissonnault’s office acknowledges that this was not true and his adoptive great-grandmother’s family in fact had Metis lineage, and she was not “full-blooded Cree.”
Questions surrounding Boissonnault’s heritage emerged following a National Post report revealing that the business he co-owned called itself fully “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal-owned” as it tried to bid on federal contracts reserved for Indigenous businesses.
The minister has said his former business partner made that bid without his knowledge and did not consent to it.
How DARE you call that Pretendian a fraud!
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Heap big trouble for Trudeau’s plucky little pretendian;
The medical-supply company co-owned by Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault shared a post office box with a woman named in arrests in two major drug busts, according to corporate filings.
It’s a connection that could reveal security gaps in the federal government’s vetting of cabinet picks, corporate ethics and law experts say, and raises new questions about the minister’s judgment amid a recent series of troubling revelations.
The mailbox, rented at an Edmonton UPS Store, appears on the April 2020 licence for the Edmonton MP’s former enterprise, Global Health Imports Corporation (GHI), which National Post obtained from Health Canada through access-to-information legislation.
The mailbox is also listed on a different company’s registration document as the home address for Francheska Leblond, a woman who has been named in run-ins with police since at least 2008, according to Alberta Court of Justice records. She has also reportedly used the name Francheska Quach in the past.
The internet sleuths on X have been on this for days.
So Francheska LeBlond (woman busted with 210 kilos of coke) who runs a numbered company with Randy Boissonnault’s partner, Stephen Anderson, uses the same legal firm for her numbered company as Global Health Imports does, and no one knows each other?
OK.
Indian-ish
National Post- For years, Liberals said this MP was Indigenous. He’s not
For years, the Liberal Party of Canada touted Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault as an Indigenous MP and part of the “largest number of Indigenous MPs” ever elected in a Canadian government, despite the fact Boissonnault now says he has never claimed Indigenous status.
“Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In An SDA Juxtapose
But she could be!
CBC, October 27th: Mayor Jyoti Gondek has homed in on one political problem as she struggles with poor approval ratings that could doom her hopes for re-election as mayor: Calgarians don’t really know who she is.
Mayor Jyoti Gondek, November 11th: …faces criticism after reports emerged that she began her Remembrance Day speech by addressing everyone as ‘settlers on someone else’s land.’
Ban Them All!
I’m not sure what’s worse: the over the top rants regarding either minor or non-existent misunderstandings of Australian aborigine culture in a children’s book, or the abject, groveling apologies from the author and publisher.
Prominent First Nations writers have also criticised the book, accusing Oliver of engaging in cultural appropriation, and his publisher, Penguin Random House UK, of making serious errors in judgment.
The award-winning Kooma and Nguri author Cheryl Leavy, who specialises in nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature, told Guardian Australia she was troubled by the book’s themes of child slavery and child stealing, and the appropriation of culture for personal gain.
“There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing about.”
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“Global Health is a wholly owned Indigenous and LGBTQ Company,” Boissonnault’s former business partner, Stephen Anderson, specified in a June 2020 bid by Global Health Imports Corporation (GHI) for a contract to supply face masks. National Post obtained the bid through an access-to-information request.
Anderson repeated the statement in a follow-up message to Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and called the company “Aboriginal” twice when submitting another bid to supply face shields.
The federal government tells potential suppliers that they can only identify themselves as “Aboriginal” if they are on an official qualified list of enterprises eligible to benefit from procurement programs that favour Indigenous–owned firms. GHI was not on it, a government spokesperson said.
Neither Boissonnault nor Anderson answered National Post’s questions about which First Nations, Métis or Inuit groups they belonged to.
Visit The Parks Canada Apology Tour
Yes, all you white colonial settlers can learn how evil Canada’s history is at the Parks Canada Apology Tour.
Thanks Justin!
The Renaming Of Everything Continues
Can anyone say this name? ?uxstalis ligwildaxw passage.
I Want A New Country
No jail time for man who fatally stabbed senior in Vancouver
Dig, Treaty People, Dig!
It’s quite ironic, really. While no one could be bothered to dig up an alleged murder scene in Kamloops, Lytton, BC homeowners wanting to rebuild after the wildfire need to wait until all the ancient pottery is exhumed. Not only that, but they have to foot the bill.
Village Mayor Denise O’Connor — whose own house was destroyed in the June 2021 wildfire — said homeowners are getting individual quotes for archeological work that range from $26,000 to $48,000 to much higher, making the work prohibitive.
The archeological digs are made necessary by the village’s location on a historic Indigenous site, as per B.C.’s Heritage Conservation Act (HCA).
Juxtapose!
It’s Not In The Middle of Nowhere
But you can see it from there.
Blacklock’s- Defending 400% Rail Subsidy
A 400 percent passenger subsidy at one of Canada’s few Indigenous-run railways is still cheaper than flying, says a federal audit. The Québec line could not run without taxpayers’ aid and will require more subsidies in the future, wrote auditors.
“Federal funding for passenger rail services in remote communities is essential to ensure individuals from these communities can access the ground transportation network and essential medical services,” said the Evaluation Of The Remote Passenger Rail Program.
This Land Is Our Land
Best I Can Do Is Another Selfie With A Teddy Bear
Globe and Mail- Ottawa heads to court to fight class-action lawsuit over unsafe drinking water on First Nations
Three years after Ottawa settled two class-action lawsuits over unsafe drinking water on First Nations for $8-billion, government lawyers will appear in Federal Court this week to fight a third class action that could add another $1-billion to the government’s ballooning First Nations water bill.
The Brainwashed Masses
National Post- Majority of Canadians don’t see themselves as ‘settlers,’ poll finds
The pollsters found that 47 per cent of Canadians disagree with the term “settler” as a descriptor. Thirty per cent didn’t know about the term, leading the researchers to note that it’s “reasonably safe to conclude that the 30 per cent … simply don’t understand the notion of settler colonialism.”
Orange Flame Day
Canadian church fire map update: Two parishioners dead from a church arson this month and another fire claimed a historic Sask. church on Saturday.
The total now stands at 112 churches burned or vandalized since the residential school graves claims.https://t.co/isl1hKlyxB
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) September 30, 2024
Via Jonathan Kay: This deserves to be in the first paragraph of Justin Trudeau’s political obituary. He went all in on the 215-bodies social panic so that he could take maudlin teddy-bear selfies and win an election. His defining disgrace.
Let Us Remember
Hymie Rubenstein- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation delegitimizes truth. So do attempts to criminalize “residential school denialism”
Today is Canada’s “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,” a statutory holiday in many parts of the country.
A growing cohort of informed Canadians will see this day as one of countless federal government virtue signaling-cum-propaganda efforts meant to obscure, deny, or hide the truth about our country’s interaction with its indigenous people, notably the role played in this interaction by the Indian Residential Schools, a noble albeit flawed and occasionally harmful effort to help Canada’s first settlers adapt to the challenges of a rapidly modernizing country, an effort the historical record shows indigenous people and their leaders strongly embraced.
“Truth”
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
