Colin Alexander was publisher of the Yellowknife [em]News of the North[/em]. His forthcoming book, to be published soon by Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is [em]Justice on Trial: Truckers Freedom Convoy and other problematic cases[/em].
Until its destruction by fire last July, this packing case was home for five Inuit in Iqaluit, capital of Canada’s Nunavut territory. (Photo—Courtney Edgar)
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s father was PM, it was said in western Canada that he yearned to be the supreme head of an undeveloped country—like his friends Fidel Castro of Cuba and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. So he set about achieving that objective at home.
There are never exact comparisons, but Argentina comes close. With resources roughly equivalent to Canada’s, in 1945 that country ranked among the world’s richest. The slide gathered momentum under Juan Peron. Similarly, in 1995 The Wall Street Journal nominated Canada as an honorary member of the Third World on account of the national debt, then almost unmanageable thanks to Trudeau Senior’s profligacy. Since then, there’s been a respite, until now.
On giving thanks for his commitment to indigenous issues, the Tsuut'ina First Nation near Calgary bestowed the traditional headdress on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and gave him an aboriginal name Gumistiyi, which translates as the one who keeps trying.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week: "We need to get to a place where Indigenous peoples in Canada are in control of their own destiny, making their own decisions about their future."
Dear Governor General:
Welcome to the highest position in our great country as our viceregal representative!
For all Canada’s greatness, however, I implore you to bring leadership and moral suasion to the needs and aspirations of our desperately marginalized and burgeoning underclass, doubling every twenty years.
As the Roman historian Polybius wrote, learning from history can avert repetition of past mistakes. Most name-changing unnecessarily corrupts history.
One lesson from history, and geography, is that Aboriginal leaders—and grandstanding busybodies—don’t speak for the burgeoning cohort of followers doubling every twenty years.
There are plenty of good reasons to oppose immigration into Canada. Presumably a man of the Left, Environmentalist David Suzuki opposes immigration: “Canada is full! Although it’s the second largest country in the world,” he says, “our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. It’s crazy!”
It should not be the end of the matter that Canada’s juvenile terrorist Omar Khadr got a C$10.5 million payout for temporary sleep deprivation at Guantanamo, and no lasting disability.
Canada’s dumbing down of education never rests. In Ottawa, there’s a debate over whether gifted students should all be educated together, or instead stuck with ones whose interests and aptitude lie elsewhere.
It may seem over the top to denounce Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett as accessories to death. But let's wake them up! The PM lives by the $500 gourmet dinner on the prime-ministerial airplane, daily photo-ops and acceptance of the ritual headdress from the Tsuut'ina First Nation near Calgary. But like President Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, what's Trudeau been doing for Aboriginals to justify the honour?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first budget departs obscenely from his Mandate letter to Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett: "We committed to provide more direct help to those who need it... No relationship is more important to me and to Canada than the one with Indigenous Peoples."
It's equally impossible to relate it to what he said to world leaders when grandstanding in Davos:
Do refuges get more than our own people in need? Yes! Some are in hotels and getting $61 per day for food. But someone on welfare in Ontario gets just $10 per day to cover food, clothing and everything except accommodation. And tens of thousands of Aboriginal children live in conditions like what refugees are leaving, in remote settlements under boil-water advisory.
Colin Alexander was publisher of the Yellowknife [em]News of the North[/em]. His forthcoming book, to be published soon by Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is [em]Justice on Trial: Truckers Freedom Convoy and other problematic cases[/em].
