Tired Old Meme Spewing Machine

Another goody from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This one's a clip from a CBC news broadcast. Listen to the questions posed of Angus Toulouse and then listen to his answers. Listen to him again. And again. And again. That's right. He evades the questions with tired old rhetoric, blaming the Indian Act, blaming non-fulfillment of treaties, etc., etc., etc..

Well, sorry. I ain't buying it. Numerous attempts have been made to amend the Indian Act over the past forty years, but it's organizations like the Assembly of First Nations and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations that consistently oppose those attempts. Don Sandburg points out one such instance that happened not that long ago, under Jean Chretien's administration.

That's why this has also been the topic of much discussion. Local cronyism is the bedrock upon which the Assembly of First Nations was built. The old guard both on reserves and in the national organization need the Indian Act as it exists in order to deflect attention from their own cronyism. Living in your mother's basement is very comfortable, thank you very much. We don't don't want to be independent and self-reliant. We don't want to be democratic. After all, that would mean losing access to the band funds that we use to line our pockets.