It never ends

"Leaped, medaling and referendums" all flowed out of Wendy Mesley's mouth in the past couple of days.  And since the CBC news repeats ad nauseum, one had to listen to it over and over.  Does the woman not know it's "leapt, winning a medal and referenda"? 

I am so sick of the butchering of the English language by supposedly educated journalists.  It really grates on my ears on an hourly basis. 

Other charms from the Olympics are the arrest in his nightshirt of the senior Irish IOC delegate for a ticket-selling scam, the "taxi caper" on the part of the American swimmers and the disgraced boxing judges sent home for taking bribes.  In the face of all this -- plus Calgary's dismal economic state -- why in the world did the mayor of this suffering town hustle off to Rio to lobby for the next Olympics??!!  Is he crazy? 

Speaking of the delusionally out-of-touch, our hapless PM will be attending the final Tragically Hip concert in Kingston this weekend.  Yes, we all know that any leader can only influence about one percent of anything that happens in a country, but the juvenile Trudeau should not be seen frolicking and participating in rabid selfies.  He should stay home, pretend he's attending to weighty state matters and watch it on television like the rest of us.  But, of course he won't.

More out-of-touch involves -- yet again -- the native file.  In addition to the billions dished out to native leaders regularly all across Canada, another $33 million has just been announced by the emotional hostage, the Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, Carolyn Bennett, to study....I actually forget what this time??  This was greeted once again by native leaders as an amount that will... "never be enough to get back what we lost." 

Apparently, when named minister of this file, incumbents get trapped in a vortex of fear and blackmail spun by the self-serving leaders with whom they are trying to work.  All long-term logic and sense evaporates in a haze of misguided guilt and instead of working on the future, they try to make the past disappear by heaving money at it.  Never works for the doomed rank-and-file, but hey, it's a great gig for their flourishing leaders.  

Never mind all that, more "never enough" will also be handed out to compensate for the "sixties scoop" (kudos to whoever thought up that nifty slogan), of native children who were put into residential schools.  As I have said before, all boarding schools are "residential schools".  Sure some nasty stuff goes on, but it goes on everywhere -- even in the "bedrooms of the nation", as another Trudeau said long ago.  But you can't argue the fact that many of these schools produce some of the greatest statesmen in history. 

Oh, and let's not forget the BC Haida people who just stripped two hereditary chiefs of their titles for writing to the National Energy Board in support of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.  This dramatic insult was actually carried out via a public rebuke in an elaborate ceremony, witnessed by more than 500 (ignorant, my word) people.  "This is an absolutely huge decision and a wake-up call to the hereditary system of governance and leadership," said the man behind it, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the union of BC chiefs.  He's got the "absolutely huge" part right, but not in the way he means it.  It's "absolutely huge" because Canada's economic health is in dire straights and desperate need of getting our oil to markets.  But trust me, as long as well-funded natives oppose it, not one inch will get built.  Just ask Vancouver's hypocritical mayor, Gregor Robertson, a strident and fervent opponent of anything even remotely related to oil.   

What it boils down to is that Canadians are actually paying natives and their allies to fight this country's prosperity at every turn.  It's a disgrace.