Idle No More

I understand that the Aboriginal Idle No More Movement will be shutting down major highways and rail lines in Southern Ontario tomorrow and probably throughout the summer. I'm really looking forward to lazy summer days on the boat to escape this nonsense.

You could ask why the Saskatchewan based Idle movement insists on shutting down highways in Southern Ontario, rather than their home province? The answer obviously, is that if you shut down a highway in Saskatchewan, no one would notice. Of course Toronto is not the seat of the Federal government, with whom they have a dispute. Predictably we will pay the price.

The term Idle No More is ironic, when in fact the purpose of the movement is to ensure that many Aboriginals can continue to be idle at the taxpayer's expense. This is not racist attack, as similar wrongheaded policies idle much of the Maritimes, which is almost entirely made up of white people.

Any group that, generation after generation, is granted money in exchange for no work, or in the cases of the Maritimes and Newfoundland, minimal work, there will grow a sense of perpetual entitlement. It is not politically correct to say it, but it is true.

Whether it be $Millions to a reserve with no economy, or ever hope of an economy, or 42-weeks of EI in exchange for 10 weeks of work on the East Coast, once you ingrain a culture with endless cycles of free handouts, you destroy the work ethic.

It is the fault of the Federal government. We will never satisfy the aboriginal lobby, ever! After  months of holding taxpayers in So. Ontario hostage with protests, the Feds will throw $Billions at the problem and we will get a temporary retrieve, until they come back looking for more.

Canada is scared shitless of the angry Native. We are wracked with generational, irrational guilt for the plight of the First Nations people. It has been 350 years since Europeans conquered the America's. No native child born today should be entitled to special treatment.  We lend credence to the bizarre, hunger striking, Chief Theresa Spence, who demands to see the Prime Minister and is granted an audience with the PM. She then demands to see the Governor General and is granted an audience with the GG. An audit proves again that she mismanaged tens of $Millions of taxpayer funds. She refuses to give up her hunger strike. A hunger strike that I have to mention shows no appreciable weight loss.  Yet still we lend her credibility as if she is a legitimate, credible leader.

If there are unresolved land claims, then let the government, or court resolve them. Give the aboriginals a cut of any resource projects in their lands, or land claims. But get something in return. End the free ride in perpetuity. At the same time end the EI fiasco in the Maritimes, of yearly seasonal employment followed by EI for more than half the year.

Not one politician in this country has the moral fortitude to propose meaningful reforms. So we will go on with this charade, paid for by the majority for the benefit of those that are entitled to their entitlements.