Kill me now

The whole file is getting completely out of control.  Yesterday, the hapless Trudeau-lite stood on a dais outside the abandoned and derelict US Embassy building on Wellington and declared that the most important relationship Canada has is with its native people.  He then announced he was turning the dump over to the natives for.....oh, I dunno...something native.  That will be for natives to decide.  Using our money. 

Architect Doug Cardinal immediately denounced the gesture as, "giving an old building no one wants (it has been left to seed since 1999) to a bunch of Indians."  Yet while he was railing against this demeaning "colonial" move, natives in Toronto were celebrating the naming of Massey College's Chapel dedicated to St. Catharine as Canada's third Chapel Royal.  "It is an act of inclusion and solidarity between the Crown and indigenous peoples," said someone in a press release. 

So, on the one hand colonials are vehemently denounced and on the other...well, you get it.  More forked tongue. 

A number of years ago, all the English streets in Montreal were re-named in honour of Quebec politicians.  In a pc "move du jour", Dorchester was tossed for Rene Levesque and Robert Bourassa replaced the venerable and historic University boulevard. 

But now the tables have been turned in the latest "du jour" move and T-Lite has decided to chuck a francophone name -- Hector-Louis Langevin -- in favour of a native one.  You have to remember that the Langevin Block houses the privy council office, as well as that of the PM, and is a very historic edifice.  But because poor, old Langevin -- a Father of Confederation -- came up with the vile residential school system, he is to be dumped onto the rubble pile of history.  Never mind that there was no other way to educate native children at the time, that's all over.  Yes, bad things happened in those schools, but bad things happen in boarding schools all over the world. 

Here's my prediction:  when Trudeau announces the appointment of a new Governor General in a few months, it will be a native woman -- someone like Cindy Blackstock or Roberta Jamieson.  I guarantee this is where we're headed.  Not that there is anything wrong with that, just that it will be done for all the wrong "du jour" reasons.