James Pew’s published article in Grave Error includes these lines: “I do believe there have been injustices both past and present and whether intentional or not, the people of Canada sometimes do fail each other. No one is blameless.” I’d add that early Canadians built a country that is the envy of most others. Those who smear Canada as systemically racist are either systematically stupid or dishonest.
Here's a prescient news item: A village councillor in Prince Edward Island is being given a bit more time to pay a $500 fine and apologize for displaying a sign on his property denying the "existence" of residential school graves.
Communities Minister Rob Lantz says he's allowing Murray Harbour Coun. John Robertson to either take these steps "within a week" or be dismissed from the elected role.
I mean, it wasn't a wise thing to put up a sign that said "mass grave hoax" on his private property, but wow, he's getting a lot more punishment than the menacing guy at the loud Pro-Palestinian demo. at the Toronto Eaton's Centre who said "I will put you six feet deep," to someone standing right by the police, who did nothing.
There is nothing about our national legacy that should cause Canadians to feel sad, remorseful or guilty about our treatment of indigenous people. Unlike our neighbor to the south, we did not massacre our native people to subdue them. We have no Wounded Knee incidents on our conscience. Our military didn't murder 150-300 Indians and throw their bodies into a mass grave and take souvenir pictures as trophies to remember the event. On the contrary, when American traders massacred indigenous people in Cypress Hills, the response by John A. MacDonald was to form a national police force to protect the Indians and rid the country of nefarious US whiskey traders. Further, after the battle of the Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull sought the safety of Canada and the protection of Canada's red coats from the wrath of the US Cavalry. He was well aware of the difference between the two countries. So, it is reasonable to ponder why our own indigenous people are now cowering under the mask of victimhood. The answer, of course, is that victimhood in Canada stimulates guilt and guilt is highly profitable. As for mass graves and atrocity propaganda, the old axiom of, "if it doesn't exist, then you would have to invent it" comes into play. One can hardly complain about the creative stage craft of the indigenous actors who found a very simple but effective way of generating revenue. Our shame, guilt or remorse should not be directed at imaginary historical travesties, but at the tangible embarrassing gullibility that caused so many Canadians to be drawn into the vortex of stupidity without every questioning why.
Many thanks to James Pew and the other brave members of the resistance for their articulate response and opposition to this intellectual blasphemy. As Winston Churchill once famously said, "never have so many owed so much to so few". As for the book, I have already bought it and encourage everyone else to do the same. For my fellow Canadians who lack the commons sense skills of critical thinking, I would encourage you to be guided by the words of one of Canada's most iconic patriots:
"If you don't believe your country, should come before yourself, you might better serve your country, by living somewhere else"...... Stompin Tom Connors
The viability of both the French and the British imperial heritage of Canada depended on sound relations with Indigenous peoples. The fur trade offered the framework for those reciprocal accommodations. In the War of 1812 Tecumseh and his Indian Confederacy soldiers helped save Upper Canada from US annexation by bringing about the early fall of the US post of Detroit. The legacy of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was a factor underpinning the political alliance.
The quality of Canada-First Nations relations falls off dramatically after the creation of the first Indian Act in 1857 and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway that changed the land tenure system in Western Canada. The mass jailing of First Nations people, starting with the incarceration of Indian political leadership at the Stoney Mountain Institution in Canada, is not a pretty picture. Canada shouldn't be taking bows on this matter, that's for sure.
If you know anything about Canadian History you would know most of this wokeism is Garbage. The Indian Industry, put together by some of the best law firms in North America, have salivated over this Gold Mine for years, they just needed time, along with their woke partners ,to brainwash a large part of the North America public to hate themselves & their History. SO SAD!!!
Thank goodness we have some brave people trying to set the record straight.
James Pew’s published article in Grave Error includes these lines: “I do believe there have been injustices both past and present and whether intentional or not, the people of Canada sometimes do fail each other. No one is blameless.” I’d add that early Canadians built a country that is the envy of most others. Those who smear Canada as systemically racist are either systematically stupid or dishonest.
The iconic American philosopher, Forest Gump, would completely agree with you !!!
Here's a prescient news item: A village councillor in Prince Edward Island is being given a bit more time to pay a $500 fine and apologize for displaying a sign on his property denying the "existence" of residential school graves.
Communities Minister Rob Lantz says he's allowing Murray Harbour Coun. John Robertson to either take these steps "within a week" or be dismissed from the elected role.
I mean, it wasn't a wise thing to put up a sign that said "mass grave hoax" on his private property, but wow, he's getting a lot more punishment than the menacing guy at the loud Pro-Palestinian demo. at the Toronto Eaton's Centre who said "I will put you six feet deep," to someone standing right by the police, who did nothing.
There is nothing about our national legacy that should cause Canadians to feel sad, remorseful or guilty about our treatment of indigenous people. Unlike our neighbor to the south, we did not massacre our native people to subdue them. We have no Wounded Knee incidents on our conscience. Our military didn't murder 150-300 Indians and throw their bodies into a mass grave and take souvenir pictures as trophies to remember the event. On the contrary, when American traders massacred indigenous people in Cypress Hills, the response by John A. MacDonald was to form a national police force to protect the Indians and rid the country of nefarious US whiskey traders. Further, after the battle of the Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull sought the safety of Canada and the protection of Canada's red coats from the wrath of the US Cavalry. He was well aware of the difference between the two countries. So, it is reasonable to ponder why our own indigenous people are now cowering under the mask of victimhood. The answer, of course, is that victimhood in Canada stimulates guilt and guilt is highly profitable. As for mass graves and atrocity propaganda, the old axiom of, "if it doesn't exist, then you would have to invent it" comes into play. One can hardly complain about the creative stage craft of the indigenous actors who found a very simple but effective way of generating revenue. Our shame, guilt or remorse should not be directed at imaginary historical travesties, but at the tangible embarrassing gullibility that caused so many Canadians to be drawn into the vortex of stupidity without every questioning why.
Many thanks to James Pew and the other brave members of the resistance for their articulate response and opposition to this intellectual blasphemy. As Winston Churchill once famously said, "never have so many owed so much to so few". As for the book, I have already bought it and encourage everyone else to do the same. For my fellow Canadians who lack the commons sense skills of critical thinking, I would encourage you to be guided by the words of one of Canada's most iconic patriots:
"If you don't believe your country, should come before yourself, you might better serve your country, by living somewhere else"...... Stompin Tom Connors
The viability of both the French and the British imperial heritage of Canada depended on sound relations with Indigenous peoples. The fur trade offered the framework for those reciprocal accommodations. In the War of 1812 Tecumseh and his Indian Confederacy soldiers helped save Upper Canada from US annexation by bringing about the early fall of the US post of Detroit. The legacy of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was a factor underpinning the political alliance.
The quality of Canada-First Nations relations falls off dramatically after the creation of the first Indian Act in 1857 and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway that changed the land tenure system in Western Canada. The mass jailing of First Nations people, starting with the incarceration of Indian political leadership at the Stoney Mountain Institution in Canada, is not a pretty picture. Canada shouldn't be taking bows on this matter, that's for sure.
If you know anything about Canadian History you would know most of this wokeism is Garbage. The Indian Industry, put together by some of the best law firms in North America, have salivated over this Gold Mine for years, they just needed time, along with their woke partners ,to brainwash a large part of the North America public to hate themselves & their History. SO SAD!!!
Thank goodness we have some brave people trying to set the record straight.
Duke
I am really pleased this book has been published, I hope it goes far and wide. Congratulations on having an essay included.
Is this book widely available in bookstores or online?
I have a copy it’s very good get yourself a copy before the Trudeau gov bans it.
Amazon.ca. https://www.amazon.ca/Grave-Error-Misled-Residential-Schools/dp/B0CP465ZPP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KEIP9Q7152MX&keywords=Grave+Error&qid=1702354460&s=books&sprefix=grave+error%2Cstripbooks%2C206&sr=1-1 Note that you can read a sample (table of contents and preface) to see what essays the book contains. Click on "read a sample" below the image of the book.
Fine work - cheers!