VIDEO: National Be-nice-to-an-Indian Day

That's a joke, son. The actual name of this Very Special Day, as celebrated in Canada, the wokest country on earth, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022. The holiday (only for federal civil servants who vote Liberal) was instituted last year by Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan.

It is a day on which White Canadians are supposed to reflect on, and do penance for) all the evils which the racist colonialists perpetrated on their Little Red Brothers, including one of my favourite characters from the history of the settlement of the West -- Low, the Poor Indian.

The creation of a new woke holiday was prompted by the "discovery" in 2021 of a "mass grave" of more than 200 Indian First Nations (indigenous) children allegedly detected at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia. The school was run by a Roman Catholic order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, under an agreement with the Canadian government.

"We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths," said Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. The band called the discovery, "Le Estcwicwéy̓", meaning "the missing."

In an article headed "The biggest fake news story in Canada", the New York Post said: What’s still missing, however, according to a number of Canadian academics, is proof of the remains in the ground. Since last year’s announcement, there have been no excavations at Kamloops nor any dates set for any such work to commence. Nothing has been taken out of the ground so far, according to a Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc spokesman.

It doesn't matter. All right-thinking, progressive (and White) Canucks -- and Americans too -- know that the indigenous peoples of North America were treated badly by the settlers who came across the big waters in their big canoes. Mistakes were made. Apologies have been tendered again and again. All that's needed now is... errr... reparations. 

Nor is the drive to right the wrongs of the past anything new. We've been told for three decades now to stop referring to indigenous peoples are "Indians" and "Eskimos". Sports teams may no longer be called "Redskins" or "Braves", let alone "Indians". And lovable mascots like Chief Wahoo have been "disappeared", replaced with mere letters.

Political correctness has triumphed. Even the way we talk about and talk to indigenous people has changed, as witness this 1993 episode of Seinfeld, titled "The Cigar Store Indian". 

     

Got it? Now go out and find an... errr... find somebody to apologize to. 

Footnote: Since I know all our male readers are wondering, the good-looking POC "Winona" was played by Kimberly Norris Guerrero, who is, in fact, an... errrr....

UPDATED: Canada Day has been cancelled

In place of our customary Canada Day greeting to our many Canadian friends and readers, Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.] send condolences. We know that, thanks to Just In Trudeau, Emperor of All Canuckistan, this is how most of you feel about the country you used to call "yours".

Here, courtesy of the CBC ("The Voice of the Liberals"), is the news of Canada Day.

Item: The Forks is a historic site and green space located at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine Rivers in downtown Winnipeg MB, the city with the largest Indigenous population in Canada. 

This year, in recognition of the "fact" that the land was "stolen" from the First Nations, The Forks recast its Canada Day festivities into "an inclusive celebration of multiculturalism" it's calling "A New Day". Canada Day is cancelled.

Item: Tamara Lich, winner of the George Jonas Freedom Award for 2022, will spend Canada Day in Jail. On Monday, she was arrested in Medicine Hat AB for allegedly breaching bail conditions imposed by a judge (a Liberal appointee) related to charges for her role in the Freedom Convoy.

Ms Lich is charged with one count of failing to comply with her release order in a warrant issued by Ontario authorities, which means she is alleged to have breached her condition in that province. She must appear in court in Ontario within six days, with that time limit conveniently extending just past Canada Day.

Tamara Lich is a political prisoner in Blackie McBlackface's Liberal democracy, which every day looks more and more like the Communist China which Junior so admires.

Item: Even though Ms Lich is being returned (against her will) to Ontario, you can bet she won't be taken to the second-coldest capital city in the world. Ottawa authorities [word carefully chosen. Ed.] are shit-scared that her appearance, even behind bars of an Ottawa gaol, would add fuel to the flames of freedom protests planned for July 1st.

City officials say they are prepared for a "unique" Canada Day, with plans to keep anti-government protests from turning into another occupation. This year the nationally broadcast TV propaganda-fest will originate  from the plaza in front of the Canadian War Museum, because Parliament Hill is closed to Canadians due to "ongoing construction". 

Well, that's the party line. Fact is, Ottawa police are bracing themselves for more protests and larger crowds than usual, as groups "related to the Freedom Convoy" are planning demonstrations. They have called in reinforcements from the Mounties -- look out for those horses! -- and the Ontario Provincial Police.

On Tuesday morning, the cops published a stern warning that they will be on the lookout for "racist, homophobic, misogynistic signs or speech during this year’s Canada Day celebrations." A spokesperson with the force [another carefully chosen word. Ed.] said that "communicating any such messaging either verbally or in another fashion could lead to criminal charges."

Such is that state of Canada on this Day Formerly Known As Canada Day. There is no more pride in Canada. Pride in homosexuality, fine. Ethnic pride within immigrant communities, perfectly acceptable. Even pride in French-Canadian culture, as shown on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day is permitted. But pride in Canada's Anglophone heritage? Unacceptable!

Under the Trudeaus, father and son, Canadians are encouraged to disremember that it was largely  "old stock Canadians" from the so-called British Isles who were responsible for the things Canadians take for granted: parliamentary democracy, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, common law jurisprudence, habeas corpus, the court system, Charter rights, personal freedoms and many more foundational aspects of Canadian society. 

If the police and their political masters are worried -- and well they might be -- about the possibility of angry demonstrations in Canada's capital... if they wonder why ordinary Canadians are so incensed, and what's causing the protests... they should look in the mirror.

The protesters would not be gathering in Ottawa or anywhere else in the Not-so-great Not-so-white North if not for the policies and actions of M Trudeau and the liberal elites. Millions of Canadians want a return of the personal freedoms taken away by the Liberal nanny state. In spite of all that "true North, strong and free" bullshit, Canadian society is divided, make that fragmented, as never before. And Just In Trudeau is to blame. Never forget.

UPDATE ADDED 1/7/22: Homosexuality is filthy, and homosexual acts warrant the death penalty. Christian Arabs who protect Jews from murderers are traitors. A man should be permitted to beat his wife. 

These are among the ideas promoted by several of the individuals who will be featured speakers at a national three-day conference of the Muslim Association of Canada, beginning today in Toronto. Good thing they're not meeting in Ottawa where (see above) the cops are on the lookout for hate speech, homophobia, etc etc. 

The Liberal government of Canuck Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface has provided the MAC with more than $3 million in federal "anti-hate", youth engagement and security funding over the past three years. Never forget.

Canadian residential schools controversy: the other side of the story

Canadians were shocked (or as shocked as they ever get over anything other than hockey) by the "discovery" last May of the graves of 215 people, mostly children, on the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in British Columbia. See "Canadian residential school deaths: a calm look at the facts", WWW 7/6/21.

I put "discovery" in quotes because the existence of the graves was common knowledge. What was unknown was their exact location, so the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nationsaid it hired a specialist in ground-penetrating radar to find them, to bring some closure to the families and community from which the deceased people came. 

A statement from Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said, "To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths. Some were as young as three years old. We sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc is the final resting place of these children." 

This being the year... make that the decade... of Justice for the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, the liberal elites, governments and media fell all over themselves to apologize, and to denounce the residential schools and vilify those who ran them. From 1894 to 1947, the schools were funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches. Although the Anglican and other Protestant churches ran most of the schools, the majority were in the care of various orders of the Roman Catholic Church.

Attendance at the residential schools was mandatory. Conditions at the schools, most of which were in rural communities, were not much different from those at British boarding schools of that era. Spartan accommodations and strict discipline were the norm. Today, revisionist historians and SJWs charge that the school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own native culture and religion in order to assimilate them into the dominant Eurocentric Canadian culture.

Agent 6 has sent along a letter by an "indigenous related" person named Jim Bissell, which he wrote in reply to a Sun columnist who had written (correctly) that the backlash against the schools was leading to acts of vandalism and terrorism by mostly non-native people. Mr Bissell wrote:

The time has come for 70-year-old people like me to speak the truth. A little background. I grew up surrounded by four reserves and a large community of indigenous peoples. It was a community of wonderful, kind, very generous, very humorous people that remained that way even when very poor. I have a wonderful successful indigenous daughter with grandkids and great-granddaughters. I am not a Catholic and I do not belong to any church. I belong to me and my family but I like Christian values. 

It should be noted that the missionaries were very essential to our success in the northern communities at that time. I had my first TB test administered by a missionary trying to stop a TB outbreak. (I hated her at the time for the scratches on my back. LOL). I got my first stitches from a wonderful nun. I got my first tooth pulled by a missionary. My first X-ray by the nuns. 

My first teacher was an angel called Sister Rita. I will never forget her and her deep love of all the children she met and taught over the years. My best teacher ever and she was not qualified by Government standards. So although I have never been a Catholic, their church has been very good for me and although I now do know of one very bad priest, most of the people were wonderful. I can still see brother Filion who later became a priest working all by himself outside the school window making a wonderful merry-go-round for the schoolyard. 

There were two residential schools in the community. When I arrived in the community, there were no phones, very poor roads, mostly winter access, and not a lot of services other than the churches. The mission school was there long before my time. It has been told to me by elders that many small children, some way younger than school age, were dropped off at the missions sick, hoping the nuns could heal them. Sad to say many died from measles, diphtheria, TB, smallpox, flu and many other conditions of the poor. Just the reality of the north. 

Years ago most of the dead were placed in the trees so the birds and other animals could take them back to nature. It was the churches that convinced them that that part of their culture should be changed so that to stop the spread of disease so they started to bury the dead. If the dead were Christians, their grave was marked by a painted rock or a small wooden cross that rotted away in 25 years or so. No one could afford a headstone and if they could there was no one that made them at the time. 

Times were hard and in fact desperate in the ’30s. Many people owed their lives to the missionaries and we tend to forget that. They were not always right, no of course not, but they actually wanted to educate, feed and make the lives of all people better regardless of where they came from. The churches do not need to apologize for trying to educate the poor in the only system that would work for nomadic peoples. They need to say sorry, though, for protecting and moving about the few bad apples (priests). 

The Government saying they are sorry is meaningless. They didn't have a clue of the impact of their decisions at the time and they don't have now. Most of the older generation that did suffer are long dead and gone or have forgiven. It seems to me that many of the new generations just want to be victims and feel the money would solve their pain.

We need to understand that very few people wanted to live in the north under the isolated conditions at the time just to help out with a few indigenous peoples. After the federal government took over the school system, most of my junior high school teachers were immigrants from the British Commonwealth (India, England, Ireland and other countries) as no Alberta teachers wanted to live up there when they could live in or near a city with a doctor, bank, good grocery store, ambulance or even a policeman.

The quality of my education suffered because all of a sudden (in 1967) the nuns or even were not qualified to teach us. Thus I had to try and take lessons from teachers with a very heavy accent and hard to understand, who wanted to move close to the cities as soon as they could. Thank goodness the missionaries were there for the past 300 years. 

Were they all good? No, but many were wonderful and now that seems to be forgotten. How many of today's critics have relatives that went up to those communities in those times to try and help? Not many, I bet. The media today is only telling half the story, so I feel we as witnesses have to speak up and speak to the truth.

If you want I will take you to a sacred ground where hundreds of people were left in the ramps and trees or lay on the ground when they died. No one but historical memory marked their graves. Please believe me when I say that the missionaries were not a bunch of evil persons out to kill little children like it sounds in today's media. That is not what I witnessed.

The missionaries knew that the ancient peoples of our land could not continue to exist in a nomadic and isolated society, so they tried to educate them and of course change their culture to be more compatible with the conditions of the times. Were they right? Maybe, I don't know, but at least they were willing to try and help. Like I tell my children, I cannot become indigenous like them but they can become Canadians like me and they are. 

There are more success stories out there than even you realize. The missionaries did not just throw bodies into the ground. Most were marked by a small wooden cross made by the brothers of the mission or parents of the child. Those crosses are long gone. Sad but true. I can also take you to the unmarked graves of many people that were not indigenous as well if you want. That was the way of the north.

Sorry to ramble on for so long but many things need to be said and if the elders of our society lack the moral courage to say them, we are doomed anyway. Please encourage people to stand up and be heard for the good not just the bad. Thanks and keep writing. Jim Bissell

VIDEO: Canuck PM promotes "truth and reconciliation"... on holiday!

A couple of years before Canada's sesquicentennial [Look it up. Ed.], the Liberal government of Blackie McBlackface "woke" to the narrative that white Canadians had been beastly to the First Nations -- the Peoples Formerly Known as Indians & Eskimos -- ever since "First Contact". "We" must do something, they told the other Canadian sheeple, to make amends for hundreds of years of racism and genocide!

Just before M Trudeau got elected in October of 2015, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the previous racist government of Steven Harpoon released an executive summary of its findings along with 94 "calls to action" regarding reconciliation Indigenous peoples and "old stock Canadians". Mr Socks promised to take all this very seriously and swore that this time, Something Would Be Done.

That December, he TRC concluded its work with the publication of a multi-volume final report that concluded that Canada's system of "Indian residential schools", in particular, amounted to cultural genocide. Not much notice was taken until this spring, when the remains of 215 children were uncovered in unmarked burial sites on the site of the Kamloops (BC) Indian Residential School. The SJWs and woke media leapt concluded that the residential schools were guilty of not just "cultural genocide" but physical genocide!

With the prospect of another election looming, Canada's chief virtue-signaller sprang into action, ordering the maple leaf flags flown on all government buildings to be lowered to half-staff**. Every woke organization, whether in the public or private sector followed suit, so today you rarely see a Canadian flag flying from the top of the pole. And now that the election is over, M Trudeau says the flags will remain lowered until the Indigenous leaders say it's OK to raise them again.

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Just before calling the election held just finished, Emperor Trudeau II decreed that September 30th would henceforth be a holiday -- National Truth and Reconciliation Day -- to be observed by the federal government and all its agencies (like Canada Post and the CBC) and all federally-regulated organizations, including many large private-sector institutions, such as banks.

Canadians were ordered not to treat the day as a time to relax and enjoy some time off, but as an occasion for remembrance, reflection and (of course) repentance for all the wrongs done to Indigenous peoples over the years. Such as paved roads, electric power, literacy -- the list goes on. Ceremonies, including the now-obligatory land acknowledgment ceremony, were held at city halls, residential school sites and other appropriate places across the land.

Progressive politicians of all stripes performed the ritual grovel, looking solemn and promising to do more for the First Nations. That was understood by all to mean even bigger cash handouts, since it is well known that nothing assuages hurt feelings better than "reparations". 

Somewhere around mid-day yesterday, Global TV noticed that M Trudeau had not been seen since his appearance at a ceremony in Ottawa the previous night. Where was he? His daily itinerary initially stated he was in "private meetings" in Ottawa, but was later updated to note he was actually in, errr, the resort town of Tofino BC, "spending time with family for a few days."

Not to worry though, a spokesthingy told CBC News (which ran the story, with comments closed, only this morning). "Following his participation in last night's ceremony marking the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, he is speaking today with residential school survivors from across the country." Speaking. On the phone. Not face to face.

Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women's Association of Canada, told CBC News that it was "quite upsetting" that the prime minister would travel on this specific day. "This is a government that has said Indigenous people are [the] most important priority for the government and that action … does not match the words," she said. "So that's very inappropriate, in my view, for the prime minister." Trudeau, she said, should be "the one who is leading this reconciliation process." 

Walt is reminded of one of the funniest bits ever done on Seinfeld. In these scenes, Jerry -- no racist he! -- tries to convince Elaine's Native American friend that he really doesn't recognize any difference between Native Americans and other Americans.

   

M Trudeau used to be a drama teacher, or so his rather thin résumé said when he first ran for election. Wonder if he coached Jerry for this performance.

** FOOTNOTE: You will often see and hear "journalists" refer to the lowering of flags to half the height of the pole as "lowering them to half-mast". That term is only correct when the "pole" is the mast of a ship. When it's a flagpole on land or a building, the correct term is "half-staff". And while we're at it, the correct protocol for this action is to raise the flag to the top of the staff first, then lower it to half-way down.