I have a theory

If the Federal Government didn't want the Keystone pipeline built, the natives would.  I just figured that out.  Whatever "Ottawa" wants, the natives don't.  Period.  The end.  If Ottawa were opposed to Keystone, the natives would claim that this deprived them of revenue and would push for the pipeline.  That is how contrary natives are.  This finally hit me yesterday listening to some head of some BC native group on the CBC who avowed, "Unless all 30 bands in BC are on side, the Keystone pipeline will never be built.  And that will never happen."  Great.  Thanks.

This in the face of the constitutional reality that natives cannot veto any natural resources decisions.  They may protest, but they can't veto.  The Federal Government has the power to make these decisions.  But try telling that to native leaders.  They will tell their people to lie down in front of trains, planes, trucks and bulldozers and whatever else to stop resource development. 

Here's another bulletin:  "The Federal Government is proposing measures that would require mining and oil companies to report all payments made to native band councils and their corporations as part of Ottawa's push for greater transparency among aboriginal government," according to an article in today's Globe and Mail. 

Guess how that's going to go over with the natives?  They rely 100% on Federal handouts, yet will not reveal how much money they take from resource companies from whom they also take cash.  "They're accountable to their community; they're not accountable to the Federal Government for this."  So said former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine. 

I am so sick of the natives and their non-Canadian-ness.  Indefensible, immature and irresponsible.