Participants of the Freedom Convoy picked up trash following Saturday’s huge protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Footage by @PuffinsPictures pic.twitter.com/wVfRGOrNXf
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 30, 2022
Meanwhile, Back in Canada
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My good lady’s appraisal of Canadians: “Canadians are always nice and that was a nice protest!”
On other matters Canadian, did you catch this? I know Jared Taylor is unpalatable on a great many issues, but he provides here a handy summary of the crud in Canadian public discourse.
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/kamloops-greatest-hate-hoax-ever/
Art- Article is spot on. The problem is consistent in all Indigenous communities and that is that Indigenous leaders are opportunistic. They usually don’t represent the interest of the people they claim to represent. Because if they did then they would address the social issues which affect their people. Like alcoholism, drug-abuse, child-abuse, poverty, welfare-dependence….But rather, they use the victimhood narrative to benefit and profit themselves and their life-long careers as spokespeople for their people. Oh whilst wearing the clothes of the white man, living in homes like the white man, speaking like the white man and reaping all the handouts the white man gives them. Victimhood is lucrative.
Kurt Schlichter thinks it’s hilarious that Socialists of the World are outraged over workers uniting.
Someone should tell the totalitarians they need to stop lying about everything.
The problem is consistent in all Indigenous communities and that is that Indigenous leaders are opportunistic.
I have the suspicion that most of the people on the reporters’ rolodex are astroturf sponsored by the usual suspects, not people with an organic relation to the population in question.
This started with the crooked / incompetent denizen of a university anthropology department and most of the people issuing animadversions have little to do with Canada’s aboriginal population. They are…the usual suspects.
No idea what the situation is in Australia, but the aboriginal population here is not a great generator of grievance politics and does not produce influential politicians. Some of that, but they’re not high volume in any sense of the term. I think it would be freely acknowleged by public figures in and among the Indian tribes that alcoholism is a problem there.
The beautiful part about this is that even if they wanted to seriously remove the trucks, it’s a huge pain to tow even one truck and towing this many is basically impossible. (And that’s assuming that the tow truck owners wouldn’t sympathize with the truckers and refuse to tow them in the first place.) If you just arrest the drivers then congrats, now you’ve got trucks everywhere blocking everything that you can’t get rid of.
The government has only three options:
1.) Negotiate
2.) Bring in the army and start straight up shooting your own citizens
3.) Get honked on
Aka, Professional [fill in the blank].
Very seldom bother to ask those they’re speaking for about what they actually want, and of course the reporters are the ones who decide what gets heard.
::horns go off::
…usually. 😀
The government has only three options:
Good point. I hadn’t thought of that. The tools in Nova Scotia, in the course of making an enactment that has to be unconstitutional, may have been anxious about getting stuck with this dilemma. Here’s hoping they’re just pissing in the wind.
They are mainly CCP/progressive operatives masquerading as journalists. They have no interest in the truth just what they can gull the gullible, ignorant, and supine into believing.
You can take that to the bank.
No idea what the situation is in Australia, but the aboriginal population here is not a great generator of grievance politics and does not produce influential politicians.
$30billion is spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services and support every year (population accounts for anywhere between 500,000-600,000). I think every government form I fill or my family fills asks if we identify as Indigenous. There are employee benefits in hiring Indigenous employees. Education Institutions have quotas and financial assistance offered which allows them preferential access to courses above their non-indigenous peers. Then there’s welfare. That’s the biggest chunk. However much money is thrown at the problem, there is still no evidence that the money is addressing the economic gap or the social issues.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/30/australian-government-knows-very-little-about-whether-money-spent-on-aboriginal-programs-works
Community leaders lobby the government for financial assistance and yet don’t want government or white man involved in how the money is used.
There are parallels to this in Canada I believe. At every Budget announcement, a financial strategy is offered upon the lobbying of a committee spokesperson from the community. How the money is being spent and whether it’s addressing the community issues is anyone’s guess.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/7771606/canada-budget-2021-indigenous-funding/amp/