Tanya can always be counted on....

...to weigh in on what she has never lived.  Toronto-born and raised, Ms. Talaga knows about as much about growing up on a reserve, or in a residential school, as I do.  Nevertheless, she jumped on top of that life and took ownership of something with which she has no direct experience.  My question is, why does no one call her on it?   I do, but I am alone on this file.

Today in 'The Globe and Mail' she banged on about the pope's apology and how it, "left us wanting more."  More what?  What else can the poor guy do?  "Our Peoples came here today from coast to coast to coast.  Many came with a heaviness in their hearts -- not sure if they truly wanted to be here or not -- but they came looking for some solace from the man in while cloaks.  The man who represents the Catholic Church, the one that took away our children's childhoods -- their joy, the light in their eyes along with their hair, language and their teddy bears," moaned Talaga.

Phil Fontaine's take on the whole circus was similarly delusional and out-to-lunch.  He claims the biggest problem of all for natives -- excluding himself, of course -- is poverty.  Poverty!  With all the millions given the natives every year?!  Where's the money?  Naturally, no reporter challenged Phil on this whopper.  

Now the pope has called for a "serious and thorough investigation" into what happened and who perpetrated it.  Oops!  This will uncover the ugly truth that it was primarily student-to-student abuse.  Clearly, the Vatican knows this and this is their way of getting at the truth, instead of simply dumping on the pope.  Wonder what Tanya will do when this comes out?  

The coverage I saw depicted throngs of natives bowing down, cheering and revering Francis.  The coverage I saw indicated that thousands wanted to touch his cloaks, but weren't able to get tickets.  He was mobbed and revered, but for Tanya it was all a complete failure.  She was one of the ones who called for the poor scapegoat to come to Canada, grovel and prostrate himself in a hair shirt in the first place, but it's still not enough.  You knew it wouldn't be.  

Going on about "Our Peoples" would be akin to my claiming ownership of the troubles in Ireland because my ancestors emigrated from there.  It would be completely inauthentic because I have never lived there.  Tanya's plaints are phony.  "That same sense of nothingness, of deep numbness I came to Maskwacis with has not left me," she says.  

To hear her go on you'd think every, single child who ever set foot in a residential (i.e., boarding) school had been either routinely raped, starved or deliberately killed and secretly buried.

I'm getting sick of Ms. Talaga.  Would some status native please stand up and call her out, or would that puncture the opportunistic narrative?  Guess it's the latter.  Here's poor, beleaguered Francis giving it his all: