Racist Canadian media find new stick to beat Chief Spence

It's a big story today, and every major Canadian news outlet has some version of it. Most of the minor ones too.

With some top-notch investigative journalism the big-city sleuths have uncovered another dirty Attawapiskat secret.

Clayton Kennedy, the partner of Chief Spence, once went BANKRUPT!!!

Yes, that's a big story. And how does a man who once went BANKRUPT, and an INDIAN man at that, get to wield influence over Chief Spence and her Band?

It's just wrong wrong wrong...  by God, I think they've found the smoking gun... no wonder 100 million just disappeared into thin air!

Funny how bankruptcy in this situation is a big deal.

Bankruptcy if you're a white Canadian like Paul Reichman or Peter Munk or the Eatons or the Aspers is just a fact of business life.

If you're a native man it disqualifies you from ever raising your head from the pit of shame.

But doesn't the fact that Chief Spence relies on Kennedy for advice reveal a certain lack of judgement?

I wouldn't know. I have no idea what kind of advice he's been giving her.

But the story does bring to mind a certain Bruce Carson.

Carson was one of Prime Minister Harper's top advisers for several years. As in adviser to the leader of the entire country of 32 million, not adviser to the leader of an impoverished Indian band of a few hundred families.

Bruce Carson was a convicted swindler who had declared bankruptcy.

There you go; Harper and Spence have more in common than they realized.

Oh how I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the meeting tomorrow. The hypocrisy will be hanging in the air thicker than the smoke from the sacred sweet grass.

The Indians are bringing the sweet grass.

The Harper contingent will be providing the hypocrisy.

(Clarification: I apologize to Mr. Kennedy and to Chief Spence for lumping him in there with a convicted swindler. The only commonality between Kennedy and Carson is the bankruptcy. In addition to declaring bankruptcy, Carson had accrued several fraud related convictions which apparently did not disqualify him from being a senior adviser to the Prime Minister.)

Joe Clark idle no more

You'd have to go back over thirty years to rediscover Joe Clark's moment in the spotlight. That's when he was briefly the Progressive Conservative Prime Minister of Canada. He was widely seen as a well-meaning doofus not cut out for the rough and tumble of federal politics.

He was also widely seen as being done in by the much more politically savvy Brian Mulroney.

Clark went on to serve in Mulroney's cabinet for a few years before fading into a gentle twilight of university teaching posts.

But now he's back!

Former PM Clark has dared to go where the current PM fears to tread; all the way to the Ottawa River to meet with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence.

Chief Spence is in the third week of a hunger strike to draw attention to First Nations grievances with the Harper gang. Clark came away praising Spence's vision as "humble and achievable."

Good for you, Mr. Clark! What a refreshing change from the macho posturing of the current administration.

Is it too late for a political comeback?

Canada's no.1 hang-around-the-fort Indian slams Chief Spence hunger strike

The winds of fate have been gentle with Patrick Brazeau. Surviving one unseemly scandal after another during his tenure as National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, those benign breezes wafted him right into the Senate at the behest of none other than Big Chief Harper.

Now Senator Brazeau has some words of wisdom for Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. Spence is in the third week of a hunger strike demanding a meeting with Harper and Governor General David Johnston.

Senator Brazeau's advice? Cut out the foolishness and have some respect for "proper parliamentary process."

Well Senator, I know that while your respect for proper parliamentary process has made you a favorite token Indian with the Harper gang, that process hasn't worked out so well for the vast majority of your people.

Maybe when you look around you in the upper chamber all you see is a bunch of smug upper middle class white dudes. That might be your world now, but it's not the world of Chief Spence.

Wake up Senator Brazeau!