She's done it again

But in a bad way.  Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the first nations child and family caring society, has just secured a $2,600,000,000 payday for native children taken into care after January, 2006.

Yep, that's two billion six hundred million bucks for about 54,000 children.  It's insane!  The Human Rights Tribunal said the federal government discriminated against Indigenous children living on reserve by failing to provide funding for child and family services.

Really?  Canadians give natives between $10 - 17 billion dollars every year.  This is money transferred via The Indian Act for on-reserve natives -- on-reserve so their leaders receive money.  How can so many kids be neglected?  Because they live on a reserve, where there is nothing to do and virtually no work for the parents who get involved in dangerous lifestyles that impede their ability to take care of their children.  That's why.

"This is a major victory for fairness and justice," squawked the ever-bellicose, fact-allergic AFN chief Perry Bellegarde.  "It's about the safety of children and their right to be with their families," he opined.  Does anyone really think these kids would have been taken into care for no reason?  It's all about money and since looking after foster kids costs a bundle, it's not done for no reason.

Native leadership complains constantly about conditions on reserves, yet does nothing about it.  What do you think these kids will do with their payday boondoggle?  Go to university?  Not enough of them have a proper education to do so even with all the special programs and incentives afforded them.  No, most drift back to the reserve when legally able and what hope have they there?

Canada is a country of human rights, charter rights, apologies, payouts.....and on....and on.  We never really accomplish anything meaningful to the world.  We used to, when the National Research Council was adequately funded and Canadian scientists developed lucrative patents sold all over the world.  My own late father was head of the rubber lab there and responsible for about 250 patents that made billions for the country.  If you want to know how important synthetic rubber is to the world, google it.  Now we're a country of people who do each other's laundry.

Natives need to get off the reserve and integrate into mainstream society.  But they won't.  Folks, this is an insoluble problem.