What people can do without any government help at all when they're not morbidly unproductive:
- Boomtown Slum, The Economist, 2012-12-22.
2013-01-27
2013-01-25
One line and the four corners
Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, your correspondent found herself having to listen to some pro-Idle No More drivel and pretend I agree with it. The speaker informed me that it's not Bill C-34 they're protesting, it's Bill C-35. When I asked what Bill C-35 is about, she said it's "dental and... like, it's our heritage" and then went off about how Natives saved Europe from the Germans. (Right...)
Ok, so, if I understand correctly, you're protesting a bill that you cannot describe, but which does sound suspisciously like the Tsawwassen Act, again. I guess I'll have to look it up.
Naturally, there is no Bill C-35. All the C-30ies were back in March, they're either passed or defeated by now. And in any case, Bill C-35 concerned immigration, and therefore not Native rights. And there is no previous C-35 that seems germane.
An NDP worker on my Facebook feed suggested that it's really Bill C-10. Aaaaaargh! There IS no Bill C-10! At least the Act that was Bill C-10 has some relevance to the question. Off the top of my head I think they called it the Safe Communities Act, or something, and it was widely criticised as having the probable result of putting lots more people in jail for drug offences, which would disproportionately affect Aboriginals. Some people melodramatically facebooked things like "I cried when that bill passed." But that's not what Idle No More is after, and in any case, it's no longer a bill.
Later, something else appeared in my Facebook feed that sounded a lot like Bill C-38, the so-called "Trojan Horse" bill, which Stephen Harper rammed through Parliament a long time ago. Again, if the Natives had something to say about it, they should have said it when all the rest of us protested against it under the title "Our Canada, Our Budget."
So the moral is, if they had a clue, they wouldn't know what to do with it.
Ok, so, if I understand correctly, you're protesting a bill that you cannot describe, but which does sound suspisciously like the Tsawwassen Act, again. I guess I'll have to look it up.
Naturally, there is no Bill C-35. All the C-30ies were back in March, they're either passed or defeated by now. And in any case, Bill C-35 concerned immigration, and therefore not Native rights. And there is no previous C-35 that seems germane.
An NDP worker on my Facebook feed suggested that it's really Bill C-10. Aaaaaargh! There IS no Bill C-10! At least the Act that was Bill C-10 has some relevance to the question. Off the top of my head I think they called it the Safe Communities Act, or something, and it was widely criticised as having the probable result of putting lots more people in jail for drug offences, which would disproportionately affect Aboriginals. Some people melodramatically facebooked things like "I cried when that bill passed." But that's not what Idle No More is after, and in any case, it's no longer a bill.
Later, something else appeared in my Facebook feed that sounded a lot like Bill C-38, the so-called "Trojan Horse" bill, which Stephen Harper rammed through Parliament a long time ago. Again, if the Natives had something to say about it, they should have said it when all the rest of us protested against it under the title "Our Canada, Our Budget."
So the moral is, if they had a clue, they wouldn't know what to do with it.
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