Why isn't Mary Simon in B.C? During the WW II blitz in London, the King and Queen visited the desolation in the East End almost daily, walking through the ruins and rubble with the people who lived there. They showed compassion, bravery and real leadership. That's what Canada's representative of Her Majesty should be doing -- not sitting on her throne in Rideau Hall. She should don a pair of mukluks and get her fat a-- out to places like drowning Abbotsford.
Trudeau actually showed up there a couple of days ago, but as usual didn't seem to know where he was or what he was doing there. He had his hands coolly stuck in his jeans and just waved and smiled at the poor serfs, peasants and victims as he strode around grinning. Grinning! His face should have at least have borne traces of fake concern, but he is completely inept and incapable of compassion of any kind. Narcissism rules!
In his latest slight-of-hand move, he just announced he's going to spend millions and form a committee to look into flood mitigation. Whaaaaat??!! Experts have been predicting these floods for decades, predictions politicians of all stripes at all levels have completely ignored. I'm waiting for the next level of puck-passing: a Royal Commission on Floods. Royal Commissions are what politicians create when they want to deflect the blame and chatter. What happens to the reports? They lie unopened, gathering dust in a filing cabinet -- just ask the Murray Sinclair's of this world, however in Murray's case, we could have scrapped the whole expensive exercise and instead simply googled the RCMP stats on who's killing native women and girls: Their own relatives.
What's happening in B.C. reminds me of the 1954 movie 'Elephant Walk' about a tea plantation in Ceylon, built right in the middle of a centuries-old elephant migration route. The plantation owners spent most of their time beating back the elephants who wanted to travel along their walk, but in the end, the elephants won. In the last scene, the elephants finally triumph and crash and smash through the plantation in a successful reclamation of their territory. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Finch, among others, it's a terrific movie. Watch it if you can; you'll see what I mean.
In B.C., residents have damned rivers and lakes in an attempt to dominate the land for centuries, but lakes want to be lakes and so they have taken back their territory in the form of the vast floods now in charge of their traditional lands. That's my analysis of what's going on there.
Writing in 'The Calgary Herald' yesterday, Don Braid reported on the appallingly tragic state of child mortality among children in provincial care in Alberta. Of 48 deaths in the period referenced, 41 were native children. Forty-one out of 48 -- that's 85 percent! What NEVER gets mentioned is why native children are taken into care in the first place. Taking children into care is very expensive and not done lightly, so the parents by definition must be dangerously incompetent.
The other lamentation was about the fact that young adults are now cut off provincial funding at age 22. "That's too early," screamed the likes of Cindy Blackstock. No, Cindy, it's way too late because by then these kids have developed drug and alcohol problems, thanks to the free money we have been giving them and the toxic environments in which they live. In my view, this is more proof that the kinship program, whereby native youth are taken from their parents and given to the relatives who raised them, doesn't work. I mean, why would you take a child from incapable parents raised by the grandparents who rendered them incapable and give them back to those same incapable grandparents? Duh! Thanks, Cindy.
Speaking of incompetence, yesterday Theresa Tam actually said that cases of covid are transmitted among people shoved into quarantine hotels. Unknowingly, she actually said that her policies of quarantining travelers in hotels have been a complete bust. Amazingly, she didn't even realize she was admitting her failures!
Yet Tam remains in place. Astounding.
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