I know I go on about this file....

....but there is so much to go on about.  In the latest insane move, the Supreme Court of Canada, no less, has seen fit to rule that first nations can obtain subsidies to help pay their legal costs when they sue the federal government.  

So, let me get this straight.  Natives can use our money to sue us, even when the band suing has millions of dollars of its own -- given it by taxpayers, by the way.  Judges have now been given the right to define such a band as "needy" and thus deem the funding of its legal challenges a necessity.  

I kid you not!  Here's the article from today's 'Globe and Mail':

Read the part about natives having the right to determine their own spending priorities -- with your money, by the way -- in recognition of "mutual respect and reconciliation".  So, even though they're suing the federal government -- you and me -- they might have decided to build a skating rink or promote some other project with the money, meaning they don't have enough to pay their legal costs for an action they initiated.  So, we'll be paying it.  We'll be paying their costs to sue us.

Even with this ruling, of course the natives and their lawyers are not happy because -- here's the catch -- they will have to open their books and prove they need the money.  Naturally, they don't want to have to do this.  Gee, I wonder why?!

This particular case involves Beaver Lake, an Indigenous community in Alberta, who went after costs, even though at the time it had 19 active oil wells and $3.5 million in available funds.  Nevertheless, a lower-court judge deemed the band "needy" and ordered the Alberta and federal governments -- you and I, again -- to pay $300,000 each a year for legal costs.  

Chief Justice Richard Wagner -- another McGill buddy of Trudeau's -- and his colleagues should be ashamed of themselves.  Just to cap it off, Senwung Luk, the lawyer representing the chiefs of Ontario, was disappointed with the generous ruling.  "Right off the bat, there should be a presumption that First Nations need money to go ahead and pursue these pieces of litigation.  If there is a very well-resourced First Nation out there, it should be up to the Crown to prove that."

Well, of course Luk's happy, he'll get his fees covered.  And why should it be a "presumption" that First Nations need money?!  Does no one look at the financials?!  Anyone with a functioning brain in his/her head knows this is insane.