When $90 million isn't really $90 million

Before you go opening your piehole about how "those Indians get a free ride" and are just "spending all our tax money on booze, big screen TVs and new snowmobiles"  or some such bullshit, let me suggest you go and read the facts on Attawapiskatt.

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Militiacious damage

Yeah, because ideas like this have worked so well elsewhere in the world where there have been disputes between ethnic groups. I used to work in Caledonia and relations betweent the town and the reserve have never been great. Fletcher's Fusiliers are not going to help matters. I'm not sure what the solution to the problem in Caledonia is, but I know having a bunch of intolerant race-baiting running around playing vigilante and claiming to be a militia is not it. And if you doubt that is what this is really all about, just read what is being said by the knuckle-dragging mouthbreathers in the comments at the linked article.

Way to defuse the situation

Sure the OPP could have waited a few hours, but then no one would have gotten arrested or injured, and how much fun would that have been?

The prostesters are being portrayed as a minority among Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve residents and that may well be the case as the Tyendinaga has never been as politically active as the Mohawks at Cornwall, whom the protesters were  acting in support of as they protest the arming of border services personnel on their land.  Gee, I wonder why they wouldn't want the border services people armed?

Nice to see that sensible and cool heads are prevailing, NOT! .

A very Canadian genocide
Take a look at this horrific story on StageLeft about mass graves being found on the sites of residential schools and ask yourself why this isn't on the front page of every newspaper in the country right now. Ask yourself why the story of this tragedy isn't taught in every classroom in the country. Ask yourself why there isn't a national day of shame, ask yourself why a massively disproportionate number of First Nations People continue to live in abject poverty and squalor? I hope the answer you come up with isn't as depressing as the one I get.