‘When ‘White’ Men Ruled’

I thought we were ever so long past the idea of judging people by the colour of their skin.

“What’s wrong with men being men? Should they be something else? Giraffes? Coffee tables? … In a recent interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put that phrase in the past tense — a “time when men were men” — but, may I suggest, ever so mildly, that the axiom is still sound.

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‘UNDR‘I’P Unworkable’

Even for a government with a disproportionate aboriginal influence, implementing the foolish ‘United Nations Declaration on the Rights of {so-called} ‘Indigenous’ Peoples’ {UNDR‘I’P} is proving to be a political and economic impossibility: 

“Two months after ‘Indigenous’ Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett declared to the world that Canada was fully embracing the ‘UN Declaration on the Rights of ‘Indigenous’ Peoples’, the most senior official in her department told underlings the international document would not be guiding planned consultations with ‘First Nations’ {‘Siberian settler communities’}, Inuit and Metis {mixed race}, according to an internal email.

‘”Indigenous’ Affairs deputy minister Helene Laurendeau told her senior adviser that the government “may not consult specifically on UNDR‘I’P” during consultations with ‘indigenous’ groups and the provinces, according to the email obtained through the ‘Access to Information Act’ by {aboriginal Race activist} NDP MP Romeo Saganash’s office.  Continue reading “‘UNDR‘I’P Unworkable’”