Three Allahs And You're Out!

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:16

*Three Allahs And You're Out!* Take a look at the 20-seconds video, but read this first. The cameraman is filming his friend as he praises Allah and launches mortar shots at British troops. Little does he know that current mortar shell tracking technology can track the trajectory of a hostile round and fire a retaliatory shot to precisely the spot from which the hostile shell was fired. This only requires the hostile mortar to fire 2 to 3 rounds. Count the number of mortar rounds the masked insurgent fires in the video. See how well it works. If you listen carefully you can hear the single round from the American artillery fired in the distance. It comes just after the terrorist fires his third round and his fourth round drops down the tube but that's as far as it gets. No more "Allah Akbars" from THIS source! Isn't technology wonderful? http://stormbringer.posterous.com/allahu-akbar-in-your-face

 

U.N. Requests Fish Broth Recipe

Written by Paul Fromm

Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:23

*U.N. Requests Fish Broth Recipe * In a move to end world hunger the UN has officially requested access to Chief Spence's fish broth recipe. Reasoning that if the Chief can survive for over 6 weeks on this soup without noticeably losing any of her considerable bulk, the World Health Organization has resolved to actually do something useful. In the future fish broth will replace food donations. World harmony and health for all is possible in our lifetime. I find it very strange that an Indian chief should look White. It's obvious in the second picture that dark makeup has been applied to make her look Indian but she still doesn't look like an Indian. She appears to have blue eyes in the first photo but they are brown in the second. We Whites must foot the bill and pay taxes while Indians do not. It is more than a bit annoying to see this White looking woman being paid a huge salary for being an Indian chief and paying no taxes. . Taxpayer.com reports: "First, let's clarify that it's not really $70,000 as most people know it. That amount is income tax free, so for someone off reserve and paying taxes in Ontario, it works out to about $95,000<http://www.ey.com/CA/en/Services/Tax/Tax-Calculators-2012-Personal-Tax>per year; not bad considering her community only has about 1,828 people<http://pse5-esd5.ainc-inac.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNRegPopulation.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=143&lang=eng> ."

 

Thoughts On Canada's Indian Problem

Written by Paul Fromm

Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:23

*Thoughts On Canada's Indian Problem* Any Canadian who has witnessed the intolerable buffoonery of the past month can only shake their heads as Canada's indulgent, special-privileges Indian policy comes across at the seams. Even some of the usually barfingly pro-minority media are exposing some of the hypocrisy and nonsense as the Canadian taxpayers are being set up to be fleeced once again. Consider: * The "hunger" strike by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. Well, it isn't quite a hunger strike. The very portly Spence, who could certainly shed a few pounds is drinking fish soup, tea and water. No, the diet may not pack on the pounds but she's not about to waste away. The purpose of the hunger strike that is not really a hunger strike? Spence was demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Harper and Governor General Johnson to discuss her demands for more aid to her reserve., The insolence! She could seek a meeting without the blackmail. The whole hunger strike has been a huge publicity stunt, with the often enabling media playing right along and ambitious politicos like Justin Trudeau stopping by for a photo op. Another visitor was former Prime Minister Paul Martin who seems to have an Indian fixation, who proclaimed the phony hunger striker |"an inspiration to all Canadians.” (*National Post*, January 7, 2013) Spence is ensconced in some sort of lean-to tee pee on Victoria Island, conveniently close to the Ottawa media, and is protected by burly handlers who now quiz visiting media as to whether they are friend of foe. * Meanwhile, back on the Spence's Attwapiskat reserve, with its population of 1,500 living in Third World poverty on Hudson Bay, a recent audit reveals Spence's bookkeeping is in utter shambles. The *Toronto Star*(January 7, 2013) reports: "According to the audit, a Sept. 20, 2012, letter from the accounting firm Deloitte to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and copied to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, says more than 400 of the transactions it reviewed lacked proper documentation. 'An average of 81 per cent of files did not have adequate supporting documents and over 60 per cent had no documentation of the reason for payment,' the letter stated. As a result, said Deloitte, it could not conclude the spending was done in accordance with government funding agreements, or for its intended purpose. 'There is no evidence of due diligence in the use of public funds, including the use of funds for housing,' wrote Deloitte. In our opinion, having over 80 per cent of selected transactions lacking any or proper supporting documentation is inappropriate for any recipient of public funds.' The Attawapiskat<http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/attawapiskat>band council has received approximately $104 million from the federal government between April 1, 2005 and Nov. 30, 2011 for housing, infrastructure, education and administration." That works out to over $11,000 per year for every Indian on the reserve. Where has the money gone? So bad are Spence's records that the audit cannot say there was been corruption or theft. There is so little documentation that no one seems to know where most of the money went. This is a problem not just for the much put-upon Canadian taxpayers but for the impoverished Indians in the Attawapiskat band who do not seem to be benefitting from the taxpayers' largess. Here's an idea. Instead of hotdogging it for media publicity with her hunger strike, Theresa Spence ought to haul her backside to a community college and take a course in elementary bookkeeping. * Seemingly in retaliation for the media reporting on this audit, Spence adopted a new information control tactic. *The Huffington Report* (January 22, 2013) explains: " A *Global News* TV crew has been threatened with arrest and removed from Attawapiskat<http://www.globalnews.ca/pages/story.aspx?id=6442784553&utm_source=facebook-twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=community>, the Northern Ontario aboriginal community that has been thrust into the national spotlight over its hunger striking chief and facing fresh criticisms over its auditing practices. Global National's senior investigative correspondent Jennifer Tryon flew into the community with photojournalist Trevor Owens Tuesday afternoon. Tryon had last been in Attawapiskat a year ago, and in her words, "What a difference a year makes." A year ago, Attawapiskat became nationally known when its chief, Theresa Spence, declared an emergency over housing conditions that sparked a national outcry. Spence is now at the centre of a the Idle No More protests that have culminated in meetings between aboriginal leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In a blog post on the Global site, Tryon describes the crew checking into their hotel,<http://www.globalnational.com/pages/blogs.aspx?id=6442784673&blogid=6442450996>only to be met by Attawapsikat's Acting Chief Christine Kataquapit, who told them no members of the media were allowed in the community:Tryon was told the media ban was on the orders of Chief Spence, given the day after an audit was leaked showing poor documentation of the band's finances." There were Indians eager to talk to the CTV film team and some of what they had to say might not have been favourable to their absentee chief. * Police confirmed that the Indians were within their rights to ban the media as theirs is "sovereign territory." This is utter fiction. Attwapiskat is part of Canada. A sovereign nation -- say Russia, France, the U.S.A. -- supports itself on its territory. The pathetic Attawapiskat band are nothing but parasites. Authorities have too long indulged the native "sovereignty" fiction. * A *CTV* (January 8, 2013) reported: "Spence's ...common-law partner and co-manager of Attawapiskat, Clayton Kennedy, said there are no allegations of 'misappropriation or anything like that.' Kennedy defended his and Spence's reported combined household income of about $250,000 a year, saying: 'I think it's adequate for the job that is being done.'" Adequate? The couple earn $250,000 between them to manage the finances for their band in such a way auditors can make neither head nor tail of it and the people remain in poverty. * When the story of the Attawapiskat substandard housing hit the headlines over a year ago, in addition to an emergency government response which sent a number of prefab houses to the reserve, many Canadians spontaneously sent aid packages as well. The National Post (January 8, 2013) Writer Jonathan Kay describes a *CBC* investigative report by Adrienne Arsenault: "Perhaps the most pitiful scene in the whole piece is the one in which Ms. Arsenault examines the masses of boxes containing (apparently useful) donations from concerned Canadians. Yet until Ms. Arsenault came around, no one had even bothered opening them up: Ms. Spence complains that she couldn’t get “volunteers” to do the job. That in itself is a damning indictment of the state of civil society in Attawapiskat. *We are always told that the preservation of reserves is a great way to maintain First Nations culture. But the opposite is true: The best way to destroy a group’s spirit of civic solidarity is to turn the economy into an outsider-funded cargo cult*; whereby the locals’ only “job” is to sit around waiting for handouts — to such extent that apparently even rousing themselves to rip open cardboard and plastic is seen as too taxing." Again, perhaps Spence and her boyfriend co-manager, might do the band lot more good if she abandoned her publicity stunt hunger strike, bot some box cutters and started to ear her princely salary by opening the aid boxes and distributing theirs contents equitably to her band. * A group on Indians formed and called themselves "Idle no More." At first glance, this sounds like a good idea. Does it mean that they are leaving the unemployment that seems to dog so many reserves and are heading to well paying jobs? No. Idle No More has launched a series of demonstrations (legal) and blockades or roads and railways (illegal) across the Dominion."protests that included a blockade of the railway<http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1310959--idle-no-more-aboriginal-protesters-march-across-canada>between Toronto and Montreal that stranded more than a thousand VIA Rail travellers on four trains. (*Toronto Star*, January 7, 2013)[image: Photo: Thoughts On Canada's Indian Problem Any Canadian who has witnessed the intolerable buffoonery of the past month can only shake their heads as Canada's indulgent, special-privileges Indian policy comes across at the seams. Even some of the usually barfingly pro-minority media are exposing some of the hypocrisy and nonsense as the Canadian taxpayers are being set up top be fleeced once again. Consider: * The "hunger" strike by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. Well, it isn't quite a hunger strike. The very portly Spence, who could certainly shed a few pounds is drinking fish soup, tea and water. No, the diet may not pack on the pounds but she's not about to waste away. The purpose of the hunger strike that is not really a hunger strike? Spence was demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Harper and Governor General Johnson to discuss her demands for more aid to her reserve., The insolence! She could seek a meeting without the blackmail. The whole hunger strike has been a huge publicity stunt, with the often enabling media playing right along and ambitious politicos like Justin Trudeau stopping by for a photo op. Another visitor was former Prime Minister Paul Martin who seems to have an Indian fixation, who proclaimed the phony hunger striker |"an inspiration to all Canadians.” (National Post, January 7, 2013) Spence is ensconced in some sort of lean-to tee pee on Victoria Island, conveniently close to the Ottawa media, and is protected by burly handlers who now quiz visiting media as to whether they are friend of foe. * Meanwhile, back on the Spence's Attwapiskat reserve, with its population of 1,500 living in Third World poverty on Hudson Bay, a recent audit reveals Spence's bookkeeping is in utter shambles. The Toronto Star (January 7, 2013) reports: "According to the audit, a Sept. 20, 2012, letter from the accounting firm Deloitte to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and copied to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, says more than 400 of the transactions it reviewed lacked proper documentation. 'An average of 81 per cent of files did not have adequate supporting documents and over 60 per cent had no documentation of the reason for payment,' the letter stated. As a result, said Deloitte, it could not conclude the spending was done in accordance with government funding agreements, or for its intended purpose. 'There is no evidence of due diligence in the use of public funds, including the use of funds for housing,' wrote Deloitte. In our opinion, having over 80 per cent of selected transactions lacking any or proper supporting documentation is inappropriate for any recipient of public funds.' The Attawapiskat band council has received approximately $104 million from the federal government between April 1, 2005 and Nov. 30, 2011 for housing, infrastructure, education and administration." That works out to over $11,000 per year for every Indian on the reserve. Where has the money gone? So bad are Spence's records that the audit cannot say there was been corruption or theft. There is so little documentation that no one seems to know where most of the money went. This is a problem not just for the much put-upon Canadian taxpayers but for the impoverished Indians in the Attawapiskat band who do not seem to be benefitting from the taxpayers' largess. Here's an idea. Instead of hotdogging it for media publicity with her hunger strike, Theresa Spence ought to haul her backside to a community college and take a course in elementary bookkeeping. * Seemingly in retaliation for the media reporting on this audit, Spence adopted a new information control tactic. The Huffington Report (January 22, 2013) explains: " A Global News TV crew has been threatened with arrest and removed from Attawapiskat, the Northern Ontario aboriginal community that has been thrust into the national spotlight over its hunger striking chief and facing fresh criticisms over its auditing practices. Global National's senior investigative correspondent Jennifer Tryon flew into the community with photojournalist Trevor Owens Tuesday afternoon. Tryon had last been in Attawapiskat a year ago, and in her words, "What a difference a year makes." A year ago, Attawapiskat became nationally known when its chief, Theresa Spence, declared an emergency over housing conditions that sparked a national outcry. Spence is now at the centre of a the Idle No More protests that have culminated in meetings between aboriginal leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In a blog post on the Global site, Tryon describes the crew checking into their hotel, only to be met by Attawapsikat's Acting Chief Christine Kataquapit, who told them no members of the media were allowed in the community:Tryon was told the media ban was on the orders of Chief Spence, given the day after an audit was leaked showing poor documentation of the band's finances." There were Indians eager to talk to the CTV film team and some of what they had to say might not have been favourable to their absentee chief. * Police confirmed that the Indians were within their rights to ban the media as theirs is "sovereign territory." This is utter fiction. Attwapiskat is part of Canada. A sovereign nation -- say Russia, France, the U.S.A. -- supports itself on its territory. The pathetic Attawapiskat band are nothing but parasites. Authorities have too long indulged the native "sovereignty" fiction. * A CTV (January 8, 2013) reported: "Spence's ...common-law partner and co-manager of Attawapiskat, Clayton Kennedy, said there are no allegations of 'misappropriation or anything like that.' Kennedy defended his and Spence's reported combined household income of about $250,000 a year, saying: 'I think it's adequate for the job that is being done.'" Adequate? The couple earn $250,000 between them to manage the finances for their band in such a way auditors can make neither head nor tail of it and the people remain in poverty. * When the story of the Attawapiskat substandard housing hit the headlines over a year ago, in addition to an emergency government response which sent a number of prefab houses to the reserve, many Canadians spontaneously sent aid packages as well. The National Post (January 8, 2013) Writer Jonathan Kay describes a CBC investigative report by Adrienne Arsenault: "Perhaps the most pitiful scene in the whole piece is the one in which Ms. Arsenault examines the masses of boxes containing (apparently useful) donations from concerned Canadians. Yet until Ms. Arsenault came around, no one had even bothered opening them up: Ms. Spence complains that she couldn’t get “volunteers” to do the job. That in itself is a damning indictment of the state of civil society in Attawapiskat. We are always told that the preservation of reserves is a great way to maintain First Nations culture. But the opposite is true: The best way to destroy a group’s spirit of civic solidarity is to turn the economy into an outsider-funded cargo cult; whereby the locals’ only “job” is to sit around waiting for handouts — to such extent that apparently even rousing themselves to rip open cardboard and plastic is seen as too taxing." Again, perhaps Spence and her boyfriend co-manager, might do the band lot more good if she abandoned her publicity stunt hunger strike, bot some box cutters and started to ear her princely salary by opening the aid boxes and distributing theirs contents equitably to her band. * A group on Indians formed and called themselves "Idle no More." At first glance, this sounds like a good idea. Does it mean that they are leaving the unemployment that seems to dog so many reserves and are heading to well paying jobs? No. Idle No More has launched a series of demonstrations (legal) and blockades or roads and railways (illegal) across the Dominion."protests that included a blockade of the railwaybetween Toronto and Montreal that stranded more than a thousand VIA Rail travellers on four trains. (Toronto Star, January 7, 2013) * Policing, at least in Ontario, is notorious for refusing to enforce the law where Indians are concerned., The OPP refused to enforce repeated injunctions ordering radical Mohawks off land for a subdivision they'd occupied in Caledonia, Ontario. Instead, the OPP turned on local Whites, stopping them at random and demanding that they account for where they were going. They also threatened to arrest Whites carrying Canadian flags as a "provocation" in a protest against the radical Indians. A few weeks later, the same OPP provided an escort for Mohawks flying their flag in a demonstration supporting the illegal occupation. In this flare up the courts have fared no better. The police simply regard Indian protesters as untouchables. The National Post (January 7, 2013) reported:" — Saying 'I do not get it,' an Ontario Superior Court judge Monday bemoaned the passivity of Ontario police forces on illegal native barricades and issued a lament for the state of law-and-order in the nation. '…no person in Canada stands above or outside of the law,' Judge David Brown said in a decision that was alternately bewildered and plaintive. 'Although that principle of the rule of law is simple, at the same time it is fragile. Without Canadians sharing a public expectation of obeying the law, the rule of law will shatter.' Judge Brown was formally giving his reasons for having granted CN Rail an emergency injunction last Saturday night, when the railway rushed to court when Idle No More protesters blocked the Wymans Road crossing on the main line between Toronto and Montreal. That protest ended about midnight the same night, but as Judge Brown noted dryly, “not, as it turns out, because the police had assisted in enforcing the order” he granted. When the judge read in the media Sunday morning that the blockade had ended, he asked CN to submit an affidavit how it had happened. As the same judge who last month watched — “shocked,” he said later, at “such disrespect” — as Sarnia Police ignored his court orders to end another Idle No More blockade on a CN spur line, he was right to be skeptical. And sure enough, what Judge Brown learned was that once the local sheriff got a copy of his order, by about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, she contacted the Ontario Provincial Police on scene. The staff-sergeant there told her “it was too dangerous” to attempt to serve the order – on all of 15 protesters. But, the judge said, he’d made 'a time-sensitive order' precisely because the evidence showed that the railway suffered 'from each hour the blockade remained in place, yet the OPP would not assist the local sheriff to ensure the order was served… “Such an approach by the OPP was most disappointing,” Judge Brown said, “because it undercut the practical effect of the injunction order. “That kind of passivity by the police leads me to doubt that a future exists in this province for the use of court injunctions in cases of public demonstrations.” * Finally, as a further bit of lunacy, a Federal judge earlier this month just added another million special people, declaring Metis and non-status Indians to be "Indians" under the law and, therefore, the responsibility of the federal government. The decision will almost certainly be appealed. Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail (January 9, 2013) noted: "As there are 400,000 people who identify as Métis, the financial obligations on the federal and provincial governments could be extremely heavy, indeed. Back when the Charter of Rights was being negotiated in the early 1980s, it was obvious that the status Indian leadership and that of the Métis were superficially polite to each other but deeply distrustful. The Indians did not consider the Métis to be fully Indian (as, indeed, they were not and are not), and the groups’ treatment experiences within Canada had been different. The Métis, however, saw similarities where status Indians did not, and were anxious that the status Indians not receive constitutional protection that escaped them. And now the Federal Court says, in essence, that the two groups were treated sufficiently the same, and were lumped together by governments many decades ago, so they should be considered in a similar fashion today. Which will mean endless negotiations, considerable litigation and, if the Métis are ultimately successful, a huge additional financial obligation on the government that status Indians can only hope doesn’t come from what they’re receiving. If, indeed, the government owes the Indians “hundreds of billions” of dollars, according to one of their lawyers, what might Métis lawyers demand?" So, now there will be demands for non-status Indians and Metis to be "equal" to the Indians in terms of not paying HST or income tax, having university tuition paid by the taxpayers for their children and being exempt from fishing and hunting laws. More special privileges in the pursuit of equality! Will there be "compensation" for who knows what historical slight? Only Canada's activist judiciary can tell and the losers will be the non-Indian taxpayers. Equally wacky will be how to know if a person is a Metis. They were the descendants of liaisons between French or British trappers or traders and Indian women. Genetic tests are taboo. The liberals hold that race is a "social construct". In other words, it's just a convention. But, then who is a Metis? How much proof would one have to offer to establish Metis status and be in line for the special goodies? All these questions will undoubtedly occupy the courts for years to come and enrich legions of lawyers. Only the Majority taxpayers will be the poorer for this endless tomfoollery. Paul Fromm Director CANADA FIRST Thoughts On Canada's Indian Problem Toronto Sun Editorial ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When 82 First Nations chiefs and band councillors make more than the prime minister, all while many of their people live in abject poverty, something is horribly amiss. It's not new, but it is amiss. In Alberta alone, for example, 47 chiefs and councilors made more last year than the PM's $317,574. We have serious reservations about that.(no pun intended) Now, since the money these chiefs and councilors pocket is grant money from taxpayers, auditing their books in search of ne'er-do-wells and misappropriated dollars would normally receive no political push back. But the Liberals need ink, don't they? They're a political embarrassment in search of some buzz. So, looking for a headline grabber, along comes Liberal aboriginal affairs critic Carolyn Bennett to label the newly-introduced First Nations Transparency Act -- Bill C-27 -- a "racist" and "paternalistic" piece of legislation. Well done, Ms. Bennett. There's your news hit. Now please go away. There is absolutely nothing "racist" or "paternalistic" about Bill C-27, a vital and long-overdue piece of legislation that deserves quick passage so that all Canada will finally get to know down which hole the billions in First Nations' grant money goes. From the outside looking in, and this is what raises many hackles, it would appear that too many chiefs and not enough Indians are living the good life on the taxpayers' dime. Bill C-27 should clear up the mess up. Much like the CBC vs. the Taxpayer, First Nations band members deserve transparency and accountability from their elected officials, and they are not getting it when their leaders refuse to come clean with where the government's money goes, or how much goes into their own pockets. What is "racist" about that? Now, you may have never heard of the Glooscap First Nation reserve in Nova Scotiabut you might be interested to know that one Mi'kmaq politician there pulled in almost $1 million in pay in 2010, while band councillors each earned between $210,000 and $260,000. Now, close your eyes and try to envision just how big the Glooscap First Nation must be to warrant such mammoth salaries. Give up? Well, in 2009, the population actually living on the reserve was 87. We didn't drop any zeroes.] * Policing, at least in Ontario, is notorious for refusing to enforce the law where Indians are concerned., The OPP refused to enforce repeated injunctions ordering radical Mohawks off land for a subdivision they'd occupied in Caledonia, Ontario. Instead, the OPP turned on local Whites, stopping them at random and demanding that they account for where they were going. They also threatened to arrest Whites carrying Canadian flags as a "provocation" in a protest against the radical Indians. A few weeks later, the same OPP provided an escort for Mohawks flying their flag in a demonstration supporting the illegal occupation. In this flare up the courts have fared no better. The police simply regard Indian protesters as untouchables. *The National Post* (January 7, 2013) reported:" — Saying 'I do not get it,' an Ontario Superior Court judge Monday bemoaned the passivity of Ontario police forces on illegal native barricades and issued a lament for the state of law-and-order in the nation. '…no person in Canada stands above or outside of the law,' Judge David Brown said in a decision that was alternately bewildered and plaintive. 'Although that principle of the rule of law is simple, at the same time it is fragile. Without Canadians sharing a public expectation of obeying the law, the rule of law will shatter.' Judge Brown was formally giving his reasons for having granted CN Rail an emergency injunction last Saturday night, when the railway rushed to court when Idle No More protesters blocked the Wymans Road crossing on the main line between Toronto and Montreal. That protest ended about midnight the same night, but as Judge Brown noted dryly, “not, as it turns out, because the police had assisted in enforcing the order” he granted. When the judge read in the media Sunday morning that the blockade had ended, he asked CN to submit an affidavit how it had happened. As the same judge who last month watched — “shocked,” he said later, at “such disrespect” — as Sarnia Police ignored his court orders to end another Idle No More blockade on a CN spur line, he was right to be skeptical. And sure enough, what Judge Brown learned was that once the local sheriff got a copy of his order, by about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, she contacted the Ontario Provincial Police on scene. The staff-sergeant there told her “it was too dangerous” to attempt to serve the order – on all of 15 protesters. But, the judge said, he’d made 'a time-sensitive order' precisely because the evidence showed that the railway suffered 'from each hour the blockade remained in place, yet the OPP would not assist the local sheriff to ensure the order was served… “Such an approach by the OPP was most disappointing,” Judge Brown said, “because it undercut the practical effect of the injunction order. “That kind of passivity by the police leads me to doubt that a future exists in this province for the use of court injunctions in cases of public demonstrations.” * Finally, as a further bit of lunacy, a Federal judge earlier this month just added another million special people, declaring Metis and non-status Indians to be "Indians" under the law and, therefore, the responsibility of the federal government. The decision will almost certainly be appealed. Jeffrey Simpson of the* Globe and Mail* (January 9, 2013) noted: "As there are 400,000 people who identify as Métis, the financial obligations on the federal and provincial governments could be extremely heavy, indeed. Back when the Charter of Rights was being negotiated in the early 1980s, it was obvious that the status Indian leadership and that of the Métis were superficially polite to each other but deeply distrustful. The Indians did not consider the Métis to be fully Indian (as, indeed, they were not and are not), and the groups’ treatment experiences within Canada had been different. The Métis, however, saw similarities where status Indians did not, and were anxious that the status Indians not receive constitutional protection that escaped them. And now the Federal Court says, in essence, that the two groups were treated sufficiently the same, and were lumped together by governments many decades ago, so they should be considered in a similar fashion today. Which will mean endless negotiations, considerable litigation and, if the Métis are ultimately successful, a huge additional financial obligation on the government that status Indians can only hope doesn’t come from what they’re receiving. If, indeed, the government owes the Indians “hundreds of billions” of dollars, according to one of their lawyers, what might Métis lawyers demand?" So, now there will be demands for non-status Indians and Metis to be "equal" to the Indians in terms of not paying HST or income tax, having university tuition paid by the taxpayers for their children and being exempt from fishing and hunting laws. More special privileges in the pursuit of equality! Will there be "compensation" for who knows what historical slight? Only Canada's activist judiciary can tell and the losers will be the non-Indian taxpayers. Equally wacky will be how to know if a person is a Metis. They were the descendants of liaisons between French or British trappers or traders and Indian women. Genetic tests are taboo. The liberals hold that race is a "social construct". In other words, it's just a convention. But, then who is a Metis? How much proof would one have to offer to establish Metis status and be in line for the special goodies? All these questions will undoubtedly occupy the courts for years to come and enrich legions of lawyers. Only the Majority taxpayers will be the poorer for this endless tomfoollery. *Paul Fromm* *Director* *CANADA FIRST* Thoughts On Canada's Indian Problem * * *Toronto** Sun Editorial* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When 82 First Nations chiefs and band councillors make more than the prime minister, all while many of their people live in abject poverty, something is horribly amiss. It's not new, but it is amiss. In Alberta alone, for example, 47 chiefs and councilors made more last year than the PM's $317,574. We have serious reservations about that.(no pun intended) Now, since the money these chiefs and councilors pocket is grant money from taxpayers, auditing their books in search of ne'er-do-wells and misappropriated dollars would normally receive no political push back. But the Liberals need ink, don't they? They're a political embarrassment in search of some buzz. So, looking for a headline grabber, along comes Liberal aboriginal affairs critic Carolyn Bennett to label the newly-introduced First Nations Transparency Act -- Bill C-27 -- a "racist" and "paternalistic" piece of legislation. Well done, Ms. Bennett. There's your news hit. Now please go away. There is absolutely nothing "racist" or "paternalistic" about Bill C-27, a vital and long-overdue piece of legislation that deserves quick passage so that all Canada will finally get to know down which hole the billions in First Nations' grant money goes. From the outside looking in, and this is what raises many hackles, it would appear that too many chiefs and not enough Indians are living the good life on the taxpayers' dime. Bill C-27 should clear up the mess up. Much like the CBC vs. the Taxpayer, First Nations band members deserve transparency and accountability from their elected officials, and they are not getting it when their leaders refuse to come clean with where the government's money goes, or how much goes into their own pockets. * ** *What is "racist" about that? Now, you may have never heard of the Glooscap First Nation reserve in Nova Scotiabut you might be interested to know that one Mi'kmaq politician there pulled in almost $1 million in pay in 2010, while band councillors each earned between $210,000 and $260,000. Now, close your eyes and try to envision just how big the Glooscap First Nation must be to warrant *