"First Nations want biggest slice of pipeline pie," says Andrew Bear Robe in 'The Herald' the other day. Really?! What are they going to contribute to getting a pipeline built?
Nothing.
OMG!
I am sorry to be always hitting the Indians here, but they are very vocal in the West and continually want more money. What was that song? "Money for nothing and your chicks for free." Yep, that's about it. He goes on about natives having been, "colonized by settler governments to their prejudice and reduced from being sovereign, independent and self-sufficient to being wards of the government and dependent on government subsidies." Here's a bulletin, get off the reserves and kill the Indian Act and you will be independent and self-sufficient to the back teeth.
The big thing missing in this is that they need to get off the reserves; then they will not be "dependent". But then there would also not be any money flowing.
What galled me in reading this was not only the ludicrous content, but also the grammar. Mr. Bear Robe actually has a PhD from the University of Calgary, specializing in treaties between the Crown and First Nations, yet cannot write coherently. Anyone who uses words such as, "millenniums" needs to check a dictionary or a Latin textbook.
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