Move on

A bunch of "natives" from the Attawapiskat Reserve walked 1,700 Ks to Ottawa and were very disheartened that no one was at Parliament Hill to greet them.  Not even Shawn Atleo, one of "them.  No native leaders gave a damn.   

"We were walking in our fathers' footsteps, as their forbearers did, in our land and all we wanted was a round table with the Prime Minister," said the leader -- a colleague of disgraced Chief Teresa Spence -- when interviewed on 'As it Happens' this evening. 

Please.

Get over the past, move into the "now" and get on with it.  Why are you still living on a moribund reserve in poverty and expecting something to change?  If nothing changes, nothing changes.  It's so outrageous when you consider all the money poured into that reserve and yet they are still unhappy and wanting..........what??  More??  Ask Chief Spence where the money she receives goes. 

No one hunts and traps anymore.  Get over yourselves.  No one lives in teepees.  Get over yourselves.  The past is gone.  Move forward.  Help your children.  Don't condemn them to a life of poverty and kaft dinner on a useless reserve. 

It's all so irrelevant.