With the forthcoming release of the report on reconciliation for residential schools, Canadians are effed. It will be all about money, trust me. They marched through the streets of Ottawa today -- some wearing Gucci sunglasses, by the way -- bemoaning what happened a hundred years ago. Can we not move on?
Not when there is money involved. With apologies to my aboriginal great-grandmother and other friends, I am sick of it. Where's the reconciliation? Natives in this country receive more than $8.5 billion every year, yet they hold the rest of us hostage when it comes to getting resources to market. For what are they accountable? Nothing. Not a penny. Not a protest. Not a disruption.
They continue to promote a "victim" mentality, while getting whatever they want. Off-reserve they are treated like every other Canadian -- except they can come and go as they like. But don't let a Canadian try to live on-reserve. They'll be hounded off.
Without being able to move oil and gas to markets, Canada will get poorer and poorer because, like it or not, we are still hewers-of-wood-and-drawers-of water. And if Canada is poorer, so will be natives. I feel sorry for my grandchildren, the poor saps who will have to pay for this mess.
Please, move on!
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