The Globe and Mail
Reserve ennui
Ennui on a reserve (How I Came Face To Face With Ennui On A Reserve – Aug. 24)? It’s called the status quo.
Richard Wagamese blames the Indian Act for the lack of motivation and action on most reserves. He’s right, but it’s not just “Ottawa” that’s to blame. The chiefs also have a huge stake in preserving the act because it is the mechanism which allows unaccounted-for billions to flow every year to native communities.
Protestations to the contrary, neither chiefs nor bureaucrats sincerely want anything to change – much to the detriment of both the Canadian taxpayer, who foots the bill, and those who live in squalor on an average northern reserve.
Nancy Marley-Clarke, Calgary
The Calgary Herald
Dear Editor,
Doesn’t Quebec Premier Marois get it? It was purely thanks to the Catholic Church in
Quebec that her sanctified French language was preserved and nurtured in schools
and institutions. Quebeckers would all be speaking English, were it not for
that inconvenient truth. To ban religious symbols in those very institutions is the height of hypocrisy.
Nancy Marley-Clarke
Both great letters Nancy. congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteI WISH YOU'D WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THESE NEW stories coming out about Princess Di.
Who believes that the mother of the Future King of England would be driven around with a drunk chauffeur!!!!!!!
Of course I do not think The Queen had any knowledge of anything - however, the men in the grey suits and perhaps Philip knew something. The Ambulance was 10 min from hospital but it took them 1hr to get there!!
I could care less about Princess Di. She was a disaster and a psychotic narcissist. She did more harm to our beloved Royal Family than anyone since the middle ages. Hate to say it, but she is in a better place.
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