Canada's foremost freedom fighter up to usual race-baiting and slander

While you don't want to help Ezra Levant promote himself any more than you have to, somebody has to take issue with his latest anti-Liberal rant.

Frankly, I've been profoundly disappointed with Justin Trudeau's mealy-mouthed adoption of official Israeli propaganda.

But Ezra certainly doesn't see it that way.

No, the mere fact that Trudeau has visited some mosques makes him an anti-Semitic supporter of terrorism.

Nevermind that when Trudeau looks at Gaza, all he can talk about is Israel's right to "defend" itself.

Shame on Trudeau for that, and no number of meet and greets at mosques will remove that shameful stain from his record.

But in Levant's world view, even Trudeau's mere acknowledgement of Canada's Islamic community is evidence of anti-Semitism.

But that's Levant.

The toxic mischief of the First Nations Financial Transparency Act

The Harper government spins the First Nations Financial Transparency Act as something they just had to do to let the native street see how high on the hog their leadership have been living. The implication being that us white folks are overwhelmingly generous to you Indians, and the only reason many of you live in squalor and deprivation is because your leaders are pocketing the money.

Bullshit!

The First Nations Financial Transparency Act is intended to foment discord in the native community while at the same time inciting the racist elements in the broader Canadian society. You know the Ezra Levant crowd is going to be mining the financial reports for salacious anti-native propaganda for years, which is exactly what the Harper gang had in mind when they drafted this legislation.

I have no doubt that some troubling examples of self-dealing and fiscal abuse will emerge, but guess what?!...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/29/alison-redfords-alleged-ghost-flights-and-faked-manifests-take-scandalous-behaviour-to-a-new-level/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/17/mike-duffy-to-be-charged-by-rcmp-suspended-senators-lawyer-says/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbonneau_Commission

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2014/07/29/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_still_doesnt_understand_conflict_of_interest_editorial.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mulroney-tried-to-cover-up-cash-payments-he-received-in-hotel-rooms-schreiber-1.648379

I could go on and on and on...

Four years after Harper's landmark apology for residential schools, the White man still knows best

The Globe has a story about how the "First Nations Financial Transparency Act" is being received by the First Nations. That's a new law that will require band administrators to make public their salaries.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan makes it plain that this law is, like the residential schools, strictly for the good of the Natives. Sure it is! Everything Canada has ever done to the Indians has been for their own good!

If you read Harper's speech four years ago you would have come away with a sense that maybe things would be different. We and they would be "moving forward" together, a movement that would be marked by mutual respect.

How is dictating to Natives what's good  for them evidence of "mutual respect?"

On the face of it there's nothing wrong with public servants being required to make public their salaries. What's different in this case is that band councilors and chiefs may be public servants all right, but the public they are serving are the First Nations public, not the Canadian public.

Any move to make personal finances public needs to originate among the First Nations, not be imposed from  outside.

All this Act will do is help further poison the atmosphere in a lot of Native communities and give the Ezra Levant types lots more fodder for their racist stereotyping of Indians.