UNDRIP and the Chaos Unfolding in B.C.

[farmaholic]

If any of you were an MP or MLA senator or any other elected official many of you guys would be rightly so kicked out of every Conservative party in Canada because of your residential school denialism, intolerance and ignorance about first nations.

Not fit to speak or comment in public or represent a Conservative party! LOL

Let that sink in for a while!

Problem is political figures can't speak their minds because they need to be politically correct or as you say get removed from office.
I bet many hold alternative views from mainstream poltically correctness.

[blackpowder]

Quite the compliment actually.


The Art of Compromise has become the Special Interest Bingo.
The welfare of the nation is replaced with raging on the opponent.
5 second bites feed the Karen frenzy.

The Budget wreck down south an example. We are no better.
None truly qualified to lead.
Anyone capable would never get elected.

The Chucks' willing participants.

[shtferbrains]

One of the leaders of the aboriginal organizations that are complaining about FSIN leadership said it's about like dividing up the moose meat.
The ones who get the moose (money) keep the biggest share amd the best, then they look after family and friends, then the left overs go to the common people.
Down to earth observation?

Seems Canada is evolving to that system?

[ajl]

At no point do lies, regardless of how many times they are repeated, become the truth. Fact is the the residential schools were a major net benefit to native peoples in canada. It is sad that pedaling lies otherwise has gained much politically for evil men but that is the environment we now live in.

[farmaholic]

Why is it some true comments made, make people racists?
Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable and hurtful. Especially to people in denial.

[blackpowder]

Because mob or tyranny rule finds those guilty of what they can't understand.

The Chucks find comfort in believing the governors have more knowledge than the governed. One expression of thought more valuable than another.
We all lose when his the only voice.

[chuckChuck]

You guys just keep regressing with your embarrassing views on first nations.

But I am not expecting any of you to change your ugly stripes!

Andrew Scheer had to get rid of Senator Lynn Beyak because she was a huge liability and embarrassment with her stupidity on residential schools!

People like that have a hard time learning! Even after Harper apologized in the house for residential schools. The really ignorant ones still can't figure it out!


"Former Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak was removed from the Conservative caucus and suspended from the Senate following a controversy over her defense of the Indian Residential School system . She was not formally "kicked out" (expelled) of the Senate, but rather resigned in January 2021 just as an expulsion motion was being prepared, avoiding a potential loss of her pension.

Here are the key details regarding the situation:

• Residential School Denialism: In 2017, Senator Beyak delivered a speech defending the residential school system as "well-intentioned" and argued that "good" was accomplished, focusing on the "kindly" staff rather than the abuse documented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
• Removal from Caucus: Then-Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer removed Beyak from the Conservative caucus in January 2018 after she refused to remove letters from her website that were deemed racist and "anti-Indigenous".
• Suspensions: Following an investigation by the Senate Ethics Officer, which concluded the letters were racist and perpetuated stereotypes that Indigenous people are lazy or fraudulent, she was suspended without pay twice.
• Resignation: After failing to complete mandatory anti-racism training properly (she was asked to leave a training session), she resigned from the Senate in January 2021, three years before her mandatory retirement date, retaining her pension.
• Impact: Her actions sparked a debate on the definition of residential school denialism, which the TRC chair, Murray Sinclair, described as a major barrier to reconciliation."

[farmaholic]

I think(there I go again, "thinking") there is more sympathy and understanding out there than is perceived. What I think people want is accountability, responsibility, progress forward not staying mired in the past. And for comparison's sake, treat the situation like Remembrance Day, never forget to make sure it never happens again.
What took generations to screw up won't be undone in one generation.

No, it's NOT all their fault, but when the truth is taboo....

[chuckChuck]

It's a shared responsibility. Start with truth and reconciliation will follow.