Journalists are lazy

Either that, or they are sh-t-scared to tell truth to power and the public.  Does any journalist today do the math when it comes to native people?  Obviously not because if they did they would report a little more honestly about what's really going on with the money.  I know I have blogged about this many times, but it just keeps getting more and more ludicrous.

The latest preposterous outrage reported in today's Globe and Mail is that the federal government has just handed over another $382 million for native child welfare.  This is in addition to the $635 million they handed over not long ago on this file, adding up to yet another $1 billion for the chiefs' coffers purportedly slated for kids.  Does anyone seriously think it will be spent on them? 

And this does not include the roughly $17 billion given annually to 617 native communities across Canada, comprising approximately a grand total of 1.2 million souls!  So, now we're up to $18 billion!  A year!  This translates into about $15 million per native for 5.6 percent of Canada's population.  I kid you not!

Where does the money go?  I mean, seriously, where?  No wonder chiefs refuse to submit to audits.  Is there any other public organization in the country that can refuse to have its accounts audited?  They can't because its your money and mine and, by the way, it's illegal.     

The latest from our friend Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the child and family caring society of Canada, is that....wait for it.....sit down......"it's not enough."  Every announcement ever made about monies transferred to natives for children is never enough in her book.  And she gives press conference upon press conference to bleat about it, with Perry Bellgarde sitting by her side, soaking up some of her.....whatever.  And you pay their salaries too.  "Biting the hand that feeds" is their eternal credo.  

Just once I'd like a journalist to do a little research and write about it.  Hey, it's all on the internet and takes about two minutes to dig up.