OMG! Again

I just checked and many of my posts are entitled "OMG!"  Today is another.  This one is about the B.C. "Gidimt'en" tribe erecting barricades to prevent the legally-approved TransCanada pipeline from crossing "their" land.  As I have blogged MANY times, it is not "their" land; it is Crown Land loaned to natives for their use.  Google the Indian Act.  It's all there.  They claim it's un-ceded land, but it's ceded and belongs to the Crown.  The lazy press will not do the research and cover this "inconvenient truth".     

Never mind that the oil company duly consulted with, and got approvals from, all the tribes along the route, now this bunch claims that the "hereditary chiefs" of the Wet'suwet'en (First) Nation have not given permission.  The elected chiefs have signed off, but not the heredity variety.  WTF?!  Watching a bunch of natives drumming and wailing, I was convinced they had no idea against what they were protesting.  It's just protesting for protesting's sake.

They are actually trying to stop the generation of Canadian wealth -- wealth which will provide them with the money they receive from the Federal Government every year, i.e., you and me.  "We have no intention of giving up the sovereignty of our land and to be violated," said one chief.  They have even erected a check point to stop progress.  It is insane, yet Trudeau will do nothing but give them more money. 

OMG!

The other "OMG" is about the "Sixties Scoop" gang.  It claims it doesn't want anything but an apology, but $750 million would also be nice.  When offered it, can you believe it!?  They didn't turn the money down!  They grabbed it.  "An apology is really easy to put together, but for it to have meaning behind it, the province and feds need to prove it to us that there's something going on behind the scenes," said "survivor" Kerry Opoonechaw-Bellegarde.  The "behind the scenes" stuff was the money being deposited into his bank account.  Done.

Oh, and just to top up the native file, read today about the local Blood Tribe in which there has been an 86 percent jump in drug overdoses in one year.  Guess that's the "industry" there:  Drugs and overdoses.  So what does this province do?  Throw more money at it of course!  In addition to what they already get, Alberta has forked over another $2.2 million for a "recovery" program to fund paramedics 24/7 on site. 

That's disgusting.  And what will they do when they get "clean"?  Get back into drugs and OD again because there is nothing else to do on the reserve.  A sickening cycle encouraged by their own leaders.