In Quebec, Inuit are 15 times more likely to be jailed than average: provincial data : canada - "Inuits in Quebec are on their way to self-government. Inuit people in Quebec control the Makivik corporation... Inuit people in Quebec also have their own regional government... Their own school board. They even control their own Police service, although most officers come from the South while Inuit candidates need to study police sciences in the south and few do. And Nunavik also controls its own Courts system, once again few lawyers in the Nunavik population means most judges and lawyers come from the south. At some point, they have all the political means to fix the situation, they just need to have the willpower to do it. Why aren't Inuit people interested in becoming Inuit police officers? Why so few study law? why so few decide to become social workers to help reduce the sexual abuse problems over there? Gaining self-government also means to take responsibility, as a community, for what happens in the community."
In Quebec, Inuit are 15 times more likely to be jailed than average: provincial data : canada - "I once worked with a teacher who worked in a northern village in NWT. One of the people in town was nicknamed "Pedophile Pete". When they asked the 2 local RCMP they said if they did anything there would be a mob of people ready to burn the jail down. Also met an older guy in Northern BC. A local girl let it slip that the chief assaulted her. Mysteriously, their house burnt down the next week and nothing came up after that. Yup...."
Damn victim blaming!
Is orca reincarnated native chief? - "An effort to reunite a young orca with its family has run into a major obstacle: native Canadians who believe the animal is the spirit of a dead chief and do not want it to leave its present spot. Indians in dugout canoes led the killer whale out to sea off western Canada on Wednesday, thwarting attempts to have the orca, nicknamed Luna, follow a boat into a floating holding pen."
Which is more important? The environmental lobby or the indigenous lobby? So much for rights not being like cake - more for one doesn't mean less than others. This naive liberal view only comes about because they dismiss cases of conflicting rights, claiming that any decent human being would agree with them. But here, where two of their constituencies conflict...
Alberta promising changes to campuses amid university 'woke' free speech standoff - "The Alberta government says changes are coming to further protect free speech on campuses as a former professor speaking out on so-called “woke” policies prepares for a showdown with the University of Lethbridge... “I think we need a public inquiry about what’s happening at universities. “The universities are being run by woke activists who are completely opposed to the open and honest discussion of ideas on campus.” Widdowson was fired from Mount Royal in late 2021 amid controversy over comments she made lauding the educational benefits of Canada’s residential school system while questioning whether abuses at the schools against Indigenous children equated to “cultural genocide,” as described in the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Widdowson was invited by a professor to speak Wednesday and the University of Lethbridge granted space for the event. About 2,500 students signed a petition pushing back on the university for hosting the speech. University president Mike Mahon, as late as last Thursday, defended the decision to host Widdowson, citing free speech even if the university did not agree with her views. However, on Monday, Mahon said after further consultation the offer of space was revoked because Widdowson’s views would not advance the residential schools discussion and would cause harm by minimizing the pain and suffering inflicted on First Nations children and families... “I’ve never denied the harm of the residential schools,” she told The Canadian Press. “People are distorting what I’m saying about it. My issue is residential schools were not genocidal. (They) were a misguided effort which often had serious problems.” “I’ve been branded as some kind of hate monger," she added. “I’m just arguing if we want to create a better world for everyone, a more co-operative world, we have to be able to speak truthfully about issues that matter.”"
Is this indigenous fragility?
Why statue toppling helps no one - "Toppling statues will, if anything, be detrimental to the cause of Indigenous Canadians. Instead of serving as a catalyst for healing among First Nations communities, the violent removal of public statues only creates more division and disorder, preventing meaningful reconciliation. Less than a third of Canadians support the removal of controversial historical monuments. Rather than bringing attention to the legitimate injustices that Indigenous Canadians are faced with today, the desecration of statues is a divisive distraction... Former senator Murray Sinclair – an influential Indigenous Canadian who previously served as the chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission – has expressed this exact sentiment. He said that tearing down historical monuments is ‘counterproductive’ to the goal of cultivating ‘more balance in the relationship’ between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Canadians, ‘because it almost smacks of revenge’. Reconciliation cannot be built on a foundation of revenge and resentment."
Opinion: Egerton Ryerson has been falsely accused of trying to erase Indigenous culture - "Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882), the Methodist minister who has long been celebrated as the founder of the Ontario public school system, stands accused of creating a residential school system designed to stamp out Indigenous culture. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigated the issue, but its final report made no such claim. It did not seem to matter: a small but nameless constituency still argues that Ryerson was the predecessor to federal politicians who launched new residential schools in 1883, and should therefore be erased from public memory. Ryerson is being misjudged. He was not a racist and he did not discriminate against Indigenous people. It was the exact opposite! As a young man he was appointed to the Credit mission, home of the Mississaugas. He learned their language, worked in the fields with the people of the settlement and became a life-long friend of future chief Kahkewaquonaby (Sacred Feathers), known in English as Peter Jones. In fact, it was in recognition of his services to the Mississauga, that Ryerson was adopted and given the name of a recently deceased chief, “Cheechock” or “Chechalk.” After he left the Credit mission, Ryerson kept in touch with Peter Jones. In the 1830s he assisted the Mississaugas, whose land was confiscated by colonial authorities, by approaching Queen Victoria personally through back channels. He also advanced the careers of a number of talented Indigenous individuals. When Peter Jones was gravely ill at the end of his life, he stayed in the comfortable home of his old friend Ryerson in Toronto. Ryerson was a friend of Indigenous people. It is also wrong to blame Egerton Ryerson for creating residential schools. It was Peter Jones, working with another prominent Methodist, who argued that the government should fund schools to educate Indigenous men in the new techniques in agriculture, so that they might survive in a colony where land to hunt and fish freely was rapidly disappearing. By 1842, the authorities accepted the concept, as a way to put First Nations on farms and to eliminate the expense of annual treaty payments, not as a way to assimilate them. In 1846, government agents met with thirty chiefs, representing most of the First Nations in what is now southern Ontario. After some discussion, almost all the leaders agreed that such schools were necessary, and many even agreed to use part of their treaty payments to help support the schools. A year later, the government approached Ryerson, an acknowledged expert on education, and asked him to provide a curriculum for schools that would train Indigenous people for a settled life. Ryerson was fully in agreement with the plan because he worried that Indigenous communities would be destroyed unless they changed their economic life. He delivered general suggestions for a curriculum — nothing else — that were typical of his day. It was patronizing, as it was based on Euro-Canadian models, but it had the support of most of the Indigenous leaders. Ryerson participated precisely because he saw education as the best instrument to protect First Nations from advancing settlement."
Truth doesn't matter to the leftist mob, of course
Make Skepticism Great Again: The Replication Crisis in Science and What it Means for the Rest of Us | C2C Journal - "Dutil points to his own institution’s plan for a name change as a prime example of the need for history to experience its own replication crisis. A report from a school committee recently recommended that 19th century educator Egerton Ryerson’s name be removed from the school due to his alleged role in creating Canada’s Indian Residential School system, a demand readily accepted by school leadership. “This entire episode represents a wholesale misrepresentation of historical facts,” Dutil says. “Nothing the [committee’s] report says is verifiable. In fact, its interpretations of Ryerson are plain wrong.” According to Dutil, “Ryerson is being ‘hanged’ because of a five-page letter,” referring to a brief report Ryerson wrote in 1847 sketching out a proposed national schooling system for natives. Most of this short document is based on Ryerson’s observations about a philanthropic school for poor children in Hofwyl, Switzerland. It would be another four decades before the federal government created a comprehensive national system for native education — and it looked nothing like the Hofwyl school. “To hold Ryerson as the engineer of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools on this basis is a complete denial of logic,” Dutil charges. It is a claim fuelled by popular political narratives about anti-colonialism and white supremacy rather than scrupulous, replicable research. Such an abuse of historical evidence, he argues, should be considered as big a scandal as those that have rocked marine biology, social psychology or criminology."
Patrice Dutil: If Ryerson falls, then everything must go - "Ryerson is only a first step because, as the activists themselves proclaim, they will not be satisfied even if the university does change its name. Ontario’s school system and post-secondary sector is dotted with names of historical white men who symbolize British colonialism... Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), Canada’s first French-Canadian prime minister. Laurier’s government is notorious for its tolerance of harsh conditions in Indian residential schools and for its anti-Asian immigration policy. Moreover, he removed the right to vote for Indigenous men (that had been legislated by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s government). Then, of course, we have Queen’s University, the ultimate symbol of white domination, imperialism and colonialism. Its law school removed Macdonald’s name from the law building in 2020, precisely because of his promotion of Indian residential schools — a policy that at the time was tacitly supported by most Canadians who wanted Indigenous people to assimilate with the majority. Queens should, by this logic, change its name. Anything named “Victoria” or “royal” should also be removed and modernized to suit 21st-century tastes. The University of Windsor? Surely, it symbolizes something utterly anachronistic... In his day, and well into the 21st century, Egerton Ryerson was remembered as an enlightened man. Decision-makers have historically seen him as a model of what visionary leadership could promise and deliver... Ryerson University itself has shown the way in funding the new Yellowhead Institute for research on Indigenous issues and named its new law school in honour of Lincoln Alexander, the first Black person to serve in cabinet and to serve as lieutenant-governor of Ontario. The naming and renaming of public institutions is important and decisions must be made calmly, in a spirit of reconciliation, and in respect of our ancestors. Above all, the province should make it clear that it has the last word on what names are given to the institutions that serve the public."
Jonathan Bradley: As a Ryerson student, I'm disappointed my university is kowtowing to a mob of vandals - "Ryerson University kowtowed to the mob, yet again, when the school’s president, Mohamed Lachemi, said the statue of Egerton Ryerson that was vandalized and torn down by protesters will not be restored or replaced... the system itself was created after his death, and its existence does not negate the fact that he was an important figure in 19th-century Ontario who played a critical role in the development of the province... There was, in other words, much about his life that’s worth celebrating. So why are activists so focused on him, especially considering that other historical figures who caused similar harm are given a free pass? Former Liberal prime minister Wilfrid Laurier, for example, took away voting rights from Indigenous people in 1898, because too many of them were voting for the Conservatives. Yet I have not seen any calls to tear down statues of Laurier. Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau supported the 1969 White Paper, a failed document that aimed to take away Indigenous rights, dismantle the Ministry of Indian Affairs and repeal the Indian Act. Yet there have been no activists demanding Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport be renamed. It is wrong to hold historical figures to the high standards that Canada operates by now. Will the woke mob a few years from now call for former NDP leader Jack Layton to be scrubbed from history because of an unfashionable opinion he held? Will these activists soon advocate for buildings named after labour union activist Stanley Grizzle to be renamed because he was not progressive enough? Should we even have statues and names honouring historic figures at all? I have spoken with other Ryerson students who support keeping the statue, but are afraid to voice their opinion because they are worried about being ostracized by their peers and getting mobbed online... Those of us who are not woke are expected to shut up or face consequences. One wrong step and you become a pariah. Despite what Lachemi claims, Ryerson and other Canadian universities have become places where ideological conformity is expected and diversity of thought is seen as unacceptable."
Ryerson University losing donors as debate over namesake’s residential school legacy rages | The Star - "The drop-off has had virtually no impact on overall donation revenue, which the university says increased during 2020, but the minority of disgruntled donors out there mark one of many stakeholder groups Ryerson must consider as it seeks to do damage control on an issue that has become a lightning rod for the country’s national shame... Most donors who have voiced their opinions are alumni, Mishkel said. Some are “disturbed” at the prospect of changing Ryerson’s name. Some want Ryerson’s statue, which was toppled and beheaded at a recent protest, to be restored. Some even want the school to press charges against those who removed it."
Money alone doesn't represent the dedication of alumni. Pissed off alumni are going to scale back their involvement
BONOKOSKI: If Ryerson changes its name, there shall be fire | Toronto Sun - "a group of far-left thugs in Toronto toppled the already-defaced statue of Egerton Ryerson, the founder of the polytechnic institute that has grown into a university. No one was arrested. The university’s administration has played cuckold and should all resign. The police shirked their duty and should be charged. Mob rule won... The thugs did not seek permission to tear down Ryerson’s statue, lob off his fingers, and toss his severed head into Lake Ontario. What’s next? Burning down the Ryerson Elementary School in Hamilton, even after it voted to change its name? Or driving up to Parry Sound and the nearby town of Ryerson and raising hell there? Far-left thugs can get away with such action but if a right-wing agitator did the same to, say, the turtle sculpture coming to Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square next year, they’d be arrested with cries to have their fingers lobbed off, and their heads figuratively tossed into the Lake of Shining Waters. And rightly so. Speaking of Nathan Phillips, maybe commemorations to him should be tumbled, too. Under his direction as Toronto mayor, he pursued an aggressive agenda of demolishing heritage structures throughout the city in order to “modernize” it... John A. Macdonald is next. He’s a marked man... men of his generation cannot, and should not, be judged by the standards of today. History, too, cannot be changed. Egerton Ryerson, for example, not only helped design the residential school system, he also built the public education system that still exists today in Canada, complete with school boards and elected trustees. All along, he thought he was doing right. He did not envision the onslaught of tuberculosis, no more than we envisioned COVID-19."
Ryerson University is officially going to change its name - "As we have all come to know in recent weeks, the remains of thousands of children have also been discovered in unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools across the nation. In the wake of multiple sit-ins and other demonstrations on the campus, as well as the dramatic and cathartic removal of Ryerson's statue by protesters earlier this summer, many students and staff have been referring to the school simply as "University X" until a more suitable moniker is instated... Aside from the obvious renaming, recommendations from the group include that the institution share materials to educate students on the full legacy of Egerton Ryerson, that it change how it goes about commemorating historical figures, and that it ensure all academic programs it offers contain content about Indigenous history, particularly Indigenous-colonial relations."
No surprise that they repeat the fake news about remains
Why the term ‘moderate livelihood’ is at the centre of N.S.’s fishery dispute - "A stand-off over lobster fishing in Nova Scotia is bringing a 268-year-old treaty to light after tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen escalated to violence over the weekend... The fishery dispute in Nova Scotia centres around Indigenous hunting and fishing rights, specifically from a treaty signed in 1752 and 1760-61, between the Mi’kmaq and the British Crown. The Peace and Friendship Treaty that was signed is still valid today. The treaty states that Mi’kmaw have the right to hunt, fish and gather for the purposes of earning a moderate livelihood... The judge described “moderate livelihood” as including “basics such as ‘food, clothing and housing, supplemented by a few amenities,’ but not the accumulation of wealth.” A few months after the court case, the Supreme Court clarified that the federal government can still regulate Indigenous fisheries if “conservation” is a concern... Non-indigenous fishers, like the ones in Nova Scotia, have argued that “moderate livelihood” means the conservation of fish and lobster could be at stake. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) only allows lobster fishing during specific seasons to coordinate with moulting schedules that make them vulnerable and easily killed, but Indigenous fishers say they have a right to fish when and where they want, as defined in the treaty."
Illegal sales of First Nations lobster nets $55K fine for two N.S. men - "Two men from southwestern Nova Scotia have been convicted for illegally buying and selling lobster caught under an Indigenous Food, Social and Ceremonial (FSC) licence. Licence conditions prohibit the sale of the catch. Terry Dale Banks and Tyler David Nickerson were fined a total of $55,000 in Shelburne provincial court Wednesday. In a statement to CBC News, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) said the charges stemmed from a September 2018 inspection of a Shag Harbour lobster pound. The department was under immense pressure at the time from commercial lobster fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia to stop illegal sales of FSC lobster, seen by many as cover for a growing black market fishery... In 2020, the owner of a Digby-area lobster pound and his company, Guang Da International, were fined $100,000 after being caught shipping lobster to China. The lobster was caught by a member of the Sipekne'katik band under multiple FSC licences in St. Marys Bay in southwest Nova Scotia. This was not Banks's first conviction in Shelburne provincial court. In 2020, he was convicted and fined $45,000 on three charges relating to falsified export certificates for live lobster. In May 2017, he was one of three men charged in an alleged lobster theft and fraud scheme totalling $3 million, according to the RCMP."
DFO promises to enforce 'out of season' moderate livelihood fishery - "The Department of Fisheries and Oceans warned two Nova Scotia First Nations this summer that unauthorized lobster fishing would result in enforcement. When the bands went fishing, enforcement ensued. Fishery officers from DFO's conservation and protection branch carried out enforcement action involving two bands. They seized traps, released thousands of lobsters and made arrests in St. Marys Bay, where members of the Sipekne'katik band were fishing... The ongoing dispute pits the treaty right of the Mi'kmaq — as recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada to earn a moderate living from the fishery — against the government's right to regulate it, which has also been recognized by the court. The issue is before the courts in Nova Scotia with both the Sipekne'katik and Potlotek bands challenging federal authority to regulate moderate livelihood fishing."
UBC professor doxes students for leaving her class and calls them 'racist' - "A professor at the University of British Columbia doxed 12 of her former students in a now-deleted tweet after she baselessly accused them of racism... Dr. Amie Wolf, who is a professor in the faculty of education, referred to the students as the "dirty dozen." She has since deleted her Twitter account. In a later interview, Wolf said that she tweeted out their names in order to prevent them from getting jobs in education, alleging that they were unfit to be teachers. The controversy surrounding Wolf and her students dates back two weeks, when UBC allegedly deleted a series of nearly identical interim reports she had filed against the 12 students after they were transferred out of her class. The students transferred after they complained about her teaching style... "At worst, it points to the possibility of unconscious and unacceptable biases, the reinforcement of white supremacy and/or Indigenous specific racism and misogyny." She later demanded a payout for the "emotional labour" she had to go through, as well as indefinite employment and to be free from receiving evaluations from her students, a standard which is applied to every professor at UBC. After naming the 12 students on Twitter, UBC contacted Dr. Wolf with a request to delete the tweet. UBC told Wolf that the tweet was a violation of students' privacy. "As an employee of UBC, you are obliged to comply with FIPPA, and your deliberate disclosure of the names of your students in this tweet constitutes a serious violation of that law," the university stated in a cease and desist letter. In response to the letter, Wolf claimed that she was "threatened" by UBC. She also further defended herself by alleging that the students were abusing their power over her by virtue of her being Indigenous... She further asserted that she is the "one who is vulnerable, not the students, me.""
Dr. Amie Wolf fired, sends threatening email amid Indigenous heritage scrutiny - "Dr. Amie Wolf, a former adjunct professor in UBC’s faculty of education currently at the heart of online backlash, was fired... The letter directs Wolf to mental health resources... speculation emerged about Wolf’s Indigenous ancestry. Wolf identifies as having Mi’kmaq ancestry and stood by that claim in an interview with The Ubyssey. However, a Twitter account, @nomoreredface, published a thread claiming Wolf was not Indigenous, raising doubts across social media platforms... Dr. Darryl Leroux, an associate professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, tweeted that he had received a threatening email sent by Wolf. Leroux is the author of Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity... “It appears likely now that infamous UBC prof in Teacher Education is a white woman masquerading as ‘Indigenous.’ Through her alleged grift, she has inflicted harm on racialized students & unleashed torrent of white supremacist hate aimed at BIPOC.” The email that Wolf sent Leroux includes the phrases, “If it’s the last f—ing thing I do, I will bring down your career,” “Go to hell racist mother f—er,” and “I’m after you. And I get my kill.”"
Apparently it's white supremacist to accuse others of white supremacy
Conrad Black: Canada's self-esteem problem - "no serious examination of the history of Canada’s Indigenous policy justifies the conclusion that the Canadian authorities or the public ever sought the disappearance of First Nations cultures, much less the extinction of the Native population itself. Yet we have been accused, and the chief founder of the country, Macdonald, has particularly been accused, of seeking the outright genocide of the Indigenous people through starvation, and the cultural genocide of the Natives by depriving a third of Indigenous children of contact with their families for several years and coercing them to speak English and French rather than their native languages. As I wrote last week, these charges are false but they were levelled at Canada by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, though the evidence adduced in the early volumes of the report do not justify those conclusions. Apart from the outright charlatans in the Native victimhood industry, I do not blame or begrudge them. But I do blame the prime minister for pre-emptively conceding that Canada aspired to commit cultural genocide against First Nations and for his acrobatic prostrations of national guilt and shame on our behalf. Even more embarrassing is the near unanimity with which Canadians have accepted and proclaimed their guilt for offences of which our country is not and has never been guilty. I was fired as a radio commentator for declaring that Canada is not a “systemically racist” country. Again, what does such a country think of itself?
Man who slashed stranger’s throat on CTrain avoids federal prison term - "Sending an offender who slashed the throat of a total stranger on a CTrain to a federal prison would do no good for either the perpetrator or society, a judge said... provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten sentenced Bobby Crane, 25, to the maximum provincial jail time of two years less a day and ordered him to serve three additional years of probation. Van Harten agreed with defence lawyer Rebecca Snukal that the justice system had failed Crane by repeatedly sending him to jail instead of getting him help in navigating life while suffering from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Snukal said since 2019 her client has been given the equivalent of 6 1/2 years in jail terms, but only two periods of probation... Crane told a friend he wanted “to get” a guy before walking up to Smith with a utility knife. “The accused … slashed his throat, dragging his knife from the right side to the left side of Mr. Smith’s neck.” In his statement, Smith said he has not been able to use public transit, which he requires to get around since his visual impairment prevents him driving, since the assault... Van Harten said the generational trauma European society has caused to Indigenous communities had to be addressed. “The history of colonialism has to be taken into account”"
White privilege and structural racism strike again
Conrad Black: Canada has been bewitched by charlatans - "Perhaps one of the radio stations helping us listen (which many of them could most helpfully achieve by observing total and durable radio silence), was the one that fired me as a weekly (unpaid) commentator for having the temerity to declare that Canada is not a “systemically racist” country. It isn’t, and nothing has been done in or by Canada as a country that imposes any obligation of silence on us. As I have said and written ad nauseam, Indigenous people have legitimate grievances and they must be addressed in a radical reconstruction of the entire relationship of the authentically native population with the country as a whole. That will require the deconstruction of the existing bureaucracy and the dismissal of the Aboriginal victimhood industry. There should also be a supplement to the Truth and Reconciliation report on Indigenous residential schools that more accurately reflects the nuances of the information adduced. We cannot humble ourselves and lower flags every time unmarked graves are discovered near these schools without further research. It was a time when child mortality rates in all groups were much higher than they are now. The prime minister had no business ordering that the flag be lowered on top of Canada’s Parliament on July 1. We should stop prostrating ourselves in sackcloth and ashes and mutilating our history, and demanding others, such as the Holy See, do so as well. In fact, while far from the most exciting history of any nation, Canada’s is among the least blameworthy. We have effectively reached the point where what Canadians should be embarrassed about is the level of confected embarrassment in which we are now wallowing. Other than religious figures, (and not many of them), there is no one of whom a statue has been erected who has not committed acts which if over-emphasized could not be cited as justification for removing their statues... There is something obsessive and totemistic in the righteous self-hate that we have accorded to the cause of Aboriginal people... My friend Catherine McKenna, a federal cabinet minister, has just announced that she is retiring from politics but will devote herself to helping the indigenous and “fighting climate change.” This incites visions of King Lear shaking his fist at the sky. Catherine could do Aboriginal people a favour by outlining her ideas for a complete makeover of native policy which should cease to be guilt-ridden and instead focus on assisting those natives who wish more fully to integrate in Canadian society to do so and assisting those who wish to maintain a separate and traditional existence to do that in a way that is sustainable and conducive of community self-respect. Smearing our ancestors and ourselves with muck is not a policy... Canada’s problem isn’t “systemic racism,” or a menacing climate, or a pandemic that would have been almost completely banished months ago if the federal government had not made an unholy shambles of getting and distributing the vaccine; it is that we have been bewitched by political charlatans and weaklings into squandering our national energies in these ridiculous culs-de-sacs"
If you don't hate your country, you don't deserve to keep your job. We're still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Buttigieg Honors 'Indigenous People's Day' While Country at Transportation Standstill - "Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took time to celebrate “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” traditionally known as Columbus Day, while the country remains at a standstill with supply chain issues, as ports are backed up, shipping companies struggle to find truck drivers, and certain airlines cancel hundreds of flights, partially due to staffing shortages."
EDITORIAL: Indigenous funding a massive failure | Toronto Sun - "On his last day in Parliament as prime minister in 1984, Pierre Trudeau said: “I do not think the purpose of a government is to right the past. It cannot rewrite history. It is our purpose to be just in our time.”... Justin Trudeau will spend $24.5 billion on Indigenous programs this year — 87% higher than historical norms — and we still can’t provide clean water to every Indigenous reserve in Canada. How is that possible? More broadly, how is it possible that billions upon billions of tax dollars spent on Indigenous issues by federal, provincial and territorial governments, over many decades, have not improved the lives of Indigenous Canadians? Not only on reserves, but for the majority — about 56% — who now live in cities. How is it possible rates of unemployment, poverty, incarceration, sickness and drug and alcohol addiction remain stubbornly high, compared to other Canadians? The late federal auditor general Michael Ferguson called it an “incomprehensible failure” in a series of reports on federal Indigenous spending in 2016 and 2018. Some people argue mismanagement and corruption by some Indigenous leaders is responsible. That’s true to some extent. It’s why we opposed Trudeau’s decision to scrap the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, passed by the previous Stephen Harper government, intended to provide more openness and transparency on these issues. But Ferguson was clear in his review in identifying what he found to be the largest source of the problem. It wasn’t First Nations leaders. It was that the federal government’s Indigenous affairs bureaucracy doesn’t monitor the results of its spending to see if the money is accomplishing what it’s supposed to accomplish. Instead, programs “are managed to accommodate the people running them rather than the people receiving the services … the focus is on measuring what civil servants are doing rather than how well Canadians are being served.”"
Clearly more money is the solution
Conrad Black: A serious conversation for a serious country - "Canadians should consider much more seriously than they have the implications of the charge against us and our forebears of genocide against Indigenous people. It is the most heinous charge that can be made and there is no evidence whatsoever that any Canadian authority ever advocated or imposed any policy on Natives or anyone else that was designed to eliminate or shorten lives or truly eliminate their culture. As I’ve written here before, the Native victimhood industry, pushing on an open door and frequently incited and echoed by self-hating English- and French-Canadians, has propagated the implicit notion that the presence of the Europeans in Canada was an intrusion and occupation that was morally almost indistinguishable from Hitler and Stalin’s subjugation of Poland in 1939, though not as violent. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommended in 1996 that approximately one-third of all of Canada be carved out and given to the sovereign rule of the four per cent of Canadians who qualify as Indigenous people, without any burden of taxation, to be sustained for all eternity by the taxpaying residents of this country. To call things by their rightful names, this would be national suicide. The former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, in accepting a humanitarian award from the Aga Khan several years ago, took it upon herself to confess on behalf of this country that it had practised “cultural genocide” against Native people and that “slavery was not unknown” in Canada. Every application of the suffix ”cide” means the physical killing of a living organism, from homicide to pesticide. Cultural genocide is nonsense, sophomoric pyrotechnics to elicit unmerited shame and what is meant is deculturation or cultural deracination, which have never been a priority of any Canadian government. There were never very many slaves in Canada in the English and French communities and there were none after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. Canada generously received more than 40,000 fugitive slaves from the United States in the 30 years prior to the U.S. Civil War, and one of Canada’s greatest statesmen, Gov. Guy Carleton, refused to hand liberated American slaves back to Gen. George Washington at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. The former chief justice should be ashamed of herself, but more importantly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accepted on behalf of this country the guilt of Canada on the charge of cultural genocide. This is an unauthorized and inexcusable profession of false guilt... Throughout these Trudeau years, there has been no exploration of innovative policies in the principal areas of government, but excessive vapid concentration on insubstantial questions of gender, climate and First Nations"
