Canadian media take lead in smear of First Nations

Sometimes an Access to Information request is ignored entirely.

Sometimes an Access to Information request spends years being bounced around between government departments before any information is successfully accessed.

But every once in awhile an Access to Information request results in the oh-so-timely release of information that the Harper gang finds it in its interest to release.

That would be the case with the lead story on the CBC news this morning, a story that is on the front page of every Canadian paper today.

Those irresponsible Indians in Attiwapiskat have pissed away over 100 million dollars in seven years.

This comes just days before Attiwapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, in the fourth week of a hunger strike, is finally scheduled to meet the Prime Minister.

Just plain pissed the money away, they did. Over 80% of their expenditures lack PROPER DOCUMENTATION!!!

That's got the racist trolls drooling all over every comment section on every news site in the land.

Which is exactly what it was designed to do.

One hundred million dollars is a lot of money. That would buy almost 2/3 of an F-35 fighter jet.

That's almost one third of what it cost the Canadian taxpayer to help smash Libya.

It's about a quarter of what Canada gave the country of Mali in "aid" during the same period.

It's less than one percent of what Canada's mission in Afghanistan has cost the Canadian taxpayer.

And while I am not for a moment suggesting that there are no management issues in Attawapiskat, this story is nothing more than a well-orchestrated smear of Chief Spence, the Idle No More movement, and First Nations in general.