The Emergency Debate and the Children of Attawapiskat

I watched the emergency debate in the Commons on the crisis in Attawapiskat, and I heard some fine speeches.

Especially the one from Charlie Angus. 

No one can understand "how a country as rich as Canada can leave so many young children and young people behind," said Charlie Angus, whose sprawling northern Ontario riding includes the deeply troubled and isolated aboriginal community.

And let's hope that something good comes out of it because the situation couldn't be worse.

Why Canadians Need to Rush to the Rescue of Attawapiskat

Attawapiskat, the small First Nation's community on the edge of James Bay, is a place well known to many Canadians.

And sadly for all the wrong reasons.

Five years ago it had to declare a state of emergency to deal with a severe housing crisis.

Now it has had to declare another one, and the reason couldn't be more tragic.

Chief Spence, Harper, and the Attawapiskat Christmas

I didn't want to blog tonight. I just wanted to enjoy Christmas.

But I couldn't get these two contrasting images out of my mind. 

Chief Theresa Spence  slowly starving to death.

While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. 

Attawapiskat and Our New Canadian Flag

It's going to be -21 degrees and feel like -30 in Attawapiskat today. Where some families are living in tents and plywood shacks like this one.

So what is our hideous Con government doing, more than a month after that poor little community declared a state of emergency?

Preparing to send  them 15 modular homes. 

The federal government has bought 15 modular homes for the remote first-nations community of Attawapiskat, but Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan is holding out the possibility that the impoverished reserve may ultimately pay the bill.

Maybe as late as JANUARY. 

Attawapiskat and the Shameless Cons

Woohoo. Excellent. I see the Con Injun Agent has been kicked out of Attawapiskat.

Attawapiskat band councillors kicked out a federal appointee in charge of overseeing the troubled band’s finances on Monday when he showed up in the remote Northern Ontario reserve.

Good for that little community. First the Cons reduce them to misery. Then they try to humiliate them

“It is incredible that the Harper government’s decision is that, instead of offering aid and assistance to Canada’s first peoples, their solution is to blame the victim and that the community is guilty and deserving of their fate,” Spence and her band council said in a statement last week.

After first trying to claim that they didn't know what was happening. Or trying to blame Charlie Angus.

Only to look like fools, and be exposed as LIARS. Again.

Attawapiskat "was always a problem," said Strahl.

"It was not good when I was there, and I don't think it's appreciably or any better now. That was well known, everybody knew it was a very difficult community for a bunch of reasons."

And Chucky should know eh? Because when he was in charge he couldn't even build them a school.

Remember?



Our national disgrace.

Our poor native people.

Those ugly shameless Cons...