Check out Tiffany Gooch's take on the Indigenous lobster fishery in today's Toronto Star.
Racist hate, hateful racist terror, racist terrorist mobs... holy heck, things have really gone off the rails out there in Nova Scotia!
Luckily for the future of interracial harmony and reconciliation, Liberal strategist Tiffany has got to the bottom of this shit-show and named and shamed the culprits; the racist non-Indigenous (do you mean white, Tiffany?) Indian-hating lobster-men of Nova Scotia and their racist co-conspirators in the RCMP. (I know I've not used the correct nomenclature here, Tiffany, but my research shows that the vast majority of lobster fishers self-identify as "lobster-men," and I therefore use the term as a gesture of respect.)
Here's the thing. The Donald Marshal decision that established Native rights to a "moderate livelihood" was rendered in 1999. For over 21 years the political class has failed to come up with a definition of what that means. For over two decades, our political leadership has stalled, dithered, denied, and delayed moving forward, allowing these tensions to fester. The violence that exploded in the past week was utterly predictable, and is ultimately the result of failed political leadership.
While Tiffany's article oozes faux solidarity with the victims of white oppression in the lobster fishery, she is in fact a member of the political class that has created the nightmare she now blames on racist lobster-men. Harper's Holy Rollers ignored the problem for almost ten years. Liberal governments under Chretien, Paul Martin, and Justin Trudeau have ignored it even longer.
As a "Liberal strategist," Tiffany, I'm sure it feels good pointing fingers at working-class fishers worried for their livelihood, but it's the negligence, incompetence, and arrogance of the people we look to for leadership that is responsible for having created this toxic environment in the first place.
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