Writing about indigenous issues often makes me feel like I’m living inside a mad Monte Python sketch. I had such a feeling at 6:00 am this morning while lying in bed reading the news on CBC — yes I know, not the best way to start the day —when I was confronted by
Interesting that MP Leah Gazan referenced in the article is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakkota nation. That membership, and her advocacy for indigenous causes, would present a conflict of interest for her as an MP introducing a motion in Parliament declaring that Canada's treatment of aboriginals was genocidal. That those Members present in the House gave unanimous consent to the motion were and remain ill informed, whether by neglect or intention, is a failure on their part to adequately represent the interests of Canada and a disgraceful act of moral cowardice.
Interesting that elder Bryant Paul , who spoke immediately before Pat Morton at the council meeting, said that the mayor and councillors should come and do sweats with the Lhtako Dene – "experience that with us, so we can work together, NOT TURN OUR BACKS on each other." Then just minutes later, when Morton began to speak, the indigenous people in the gallery stood on cue and TURNED THEIR BACKS. (I noticed with some amusement that two young women who were sitting on the floor started to stand up and were stopped from doing so by the police officer right behind them. They settled for turning their backs while remaining on the floor.)
"As the little boy said in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, 'The Emperor has no clothes.'"
The emperor is just about every institution in Canada, every school and university and government and media outlet and legal body. The emperor is figuratively a lie about Christian teachers murdering students and secretly putting them in a mass grave, though now the story is about a "suspected discovery of unmarked graves." Is a discovery really a discovery if it is only suspected?
The only way for the truth to be revealed is if a new government under Pierre be required to complete an investigation that never happened to clear Canadians of genocide including bringing to a court of law, people who made sworn statements of the abuse they stated they endured and was highly compensated for under oath! Hearsay is not evidence nor can it be accepted as truth! Why should White people in Canada be branded as genocidal if the truth is not there! Blaming it all on Colonialism is an easy way out! Truth is what matters, first and foremost! Truth is the path to Real Conciliation….. and acceptance of our past!
The CBC article that Hymie links to states that the TRC released its report in 2021, when of course it was 2015. I tried to report the error, but couldn't make it work. Perhaps someone could do so in the online comments on the article? The CBC also misspells Scott Elliott's surname as Elliot (unless there's an error on his name plaque at his chamber seat).
CBC article reads: "In 2021, the federally-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released a report into the schools after six years of testimony received from more than 6,000 attendees across the country."
I see they'd already corrected an error about Frances Widdowson's university.
Interesting that MP Leah Gazan referenced in the article is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakkota nation. That membership, and her advocacy for indigenous causes, would present a conflict of interest for her as an MP introducing a motion in Parliament declaring that Canada's treatment of aboriginals was genocidal. That those Members present in the House gave unanimous consent to the motion were and remain ill informed, whether by neglect or intention, is a failure on their part to adequately represent the interests of Canada and a disgraceful act of moral cowardice.
It's an ideology/cult so facts do not matter anymore.
Interesting that elder Bryant Paul , who spoke immediately before Pat Morton at the council meeting, said that the mayor and councillors should come and do sweats with the Lhtako Dene – "experience that with us, so we can work together, NOT TURN OUR BACKS on each other." Then just minutes later, when Morton began to speak, the indigenous people in the gallery stood on cue and TURNED THEIR BACKS. (I noticed with some amusement that two young women who were sitting on the floor started to stand up and were stopped from doing so by the police officer right behind them. They settled for turning their backs while remaining on the floor.)
"As the little boy said in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, 'The Emperor has no clothes.'"
The emperor is just about every institution in Canada, every school and university and government and media outlet and legal body. The emperor is figuratively a lie about Christian teachers murdering students and secretly putting them in a mass grave, though now the story is about a "suspected discovery of unmarked graves." Is a discovery really a discovery if it is only suspected?
The truth hurts sometimes.
The only way for the truth to be revealed is if a new government under Pierre be required to complete an investigation that never happened to clear Canadians of genocide including bringing to a court of law, people who made sworn statements of the abuse they stated they endured and was highly compensated for under oath! Hearsay is not evidence nor can it be accepted as truth! Why should White people in Canada be branded as genocidal if the truth is not there! Blaming it all on Colonialism is an easy way out! Truth is what matters, first and foremost! Truth is the path to Real Conciliation….. and acceptance of our past!
The CBC article that Hymie links to states that the TRC released its report in 2021, when of course it was 2015. I tried to report the error, but couldn't make it work. Perhaps someone could do so in the online comments on the article? The CBC also misspells Scott Elliott's surname as Elliot (unless there's an error on his name plaque at his chamber seat).
CBC article reads: "In 2021, the federally-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released a report into the schools after six years of testimony received from more than 6,000 attendees across the country."
I see they'd already corrected an error about Frances Widdowson's university.