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An interesting story in the Post today in that it encapsulates all that most of us despise about so-called progressives. A Quebec environmental bureaucrat wrote a letter to his federal counterpart on upcoming legislation. The letter, sent last month from a Quebec environment official to one of his federal counterparts, does not seem all that inflammatory. The Quebec official notes that proposed federal legislation requiring that traditional Indigenous knowledge be taken into account when assessing environmental impacts permits a “very broad” definition of such knowledge. And, he adds, the bill should be clearer about how traditional knowledge is to be weighed against scientific data when deciding whether a project should proceed. How could anyone be upset about this? Clearly it's simply warning that science, and not the undefined term 'indigenous knowledge' should guide environmental assessment. Yet two cabinet ministers had to apologize amid the 'outrage' over the disrespect to natives. I think this just goes to show how lost to reality progressives are in their fanaticism at appeasing and pandering to every single minority identity group. You can't question the 'wisdom' of indigenous people, despite the fact they had zero knowledge of science and were basically a bunch of tribal hunters restricted to small geographic areas. Even suggesting we should promote science instead an endanger your career as the hysterical progressives start calling you names. And yes, of course, the progressives have already started crying racism. It's what they do, after all. http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/quebec-deputy-minister-gets-pushback-after-questioning-place-of-indigenous-traditional-knowledge#comments-area

First off, you used the term "racism" - not me. As the original topic mentioned - it seems that any negativity introduced into an indiginous conversation is often shouted down as "racism". Many Canadians are simply frustrated with a system - both government and aboriginal - that allows poverty and hopelessness to perpetuate within too many of the 600-plus indiginous "nations". This current Liberal government has revised and legitimized the term "colonialism. That has been grasped by the Indiginous Industry to make it seem like if the White Man never came, all would be well. As I indicated with pre-colonial warring tribes - that's just a fairy tale. Indiginous "leaders" often use the term White Man - sounds rather racist to me. I doubt there are many Canadians with outright racist attitudes towards Indiginous people - but a lot are fed up with the self-imposed apartheid of too many reservations that have allowed their own people to descend into the poverty and hopelessness that is so evident. Years ago, I had hope that the Assembly of First Nations would work for the betterment of those 600-plus nations - drawing up a blueprint that would, over time - possibly even decades - amalgamate and regionalize indiginous communities and bring them into the 20th, if not the 21st century. Imagine the political force of a million engaged Indiginous people. Education, jobs and property rights. Create hope for the next generation. It takes time - but it's barely even started. Not racism. Frustration.

You DO know that prior to the arrival of Europeans, tribes all over North America were battling each other. Of particular note in the Ontario/Quebec area were the Hurons and Iroquois - each trying to wipe each other out and broaden their territory. That's why they so easily went to opposite sides of the French/British conflict. The Indian Wars had three outcomes for the defeated - assimilation, slavery, or death - perhaps with a bit of torture thrown in. The image of indiginous Kumbaya prior to "colonialism" is mostly a fairy tale. They stole from each other.

Since my wife is a direct decendent of Selkirk settlers, and is also eligible for first nations status, I guess you are right. Would you please call up Jame Richardson and tell him to get his ass out of my building. BTW: using your logic, how many aboriginals today are 300 years old? Of course I was being fecetious about land registration. A society with no sophistication and no written language was really not going to do that. As others have pointed out, their respect for property rights and human life was that when they wanted to go someplace, but someone else was already there, they simply killed them. To that standard, they should be in everlasting state of gratitude we did not do what the yanks tried to do and simply wipe them out. The land DOES belong to them - as Canadian citizens they should share in all crown land and the benefits from same. The concept of having hundreds of "sovereign nations" within our country is ludicrous and unworkable.

Fairer than how they handled it before the Europeans. When one native tribe decided to attack another it killed everyone on the land and then it was THEIR land.

Humboldt Broncos. My heart is broken.

I think Trudeau killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline project because he believed it would offend the Spirit Bear in the Great Bear Rainforest. The pipeline would have gone through a small part of the so-called Great Bear Rainforest to reach Kitimat. But he killed it and said the Great Bear Rainforest was no place for a pipeline. Don't offend the Kermode Bear.

"Theft" is only theft if you "own" something. Can you show me the registered title deed for what was "stolen"? If merely being somewhere is what it takes to own something, I was once standing at the corner of Portage and Main in Winnipeg, so I guess it's mine?

It's not clear what you mean. Would you mind elaborating please? In the meantime perhaps you can hum a line or two of "Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya, oh lord kumbaya" A mind at peace is a mind at focus!

Jordan Petersen is one of those people who are pushing back. The leftist social justice warrior progressive liberals despise this guy because Petersen makes them all look stupid. They deserve to be noted as stupid. My opinion.

Around 2015. That's when the latest wave of increased... "sensitivity"... started. That's when everyone started to be worried about "cultural appropriation", "microaggressions", "being an ally", "intersectional disadvantage", "cisgender privilege", etc. But, this is the first wave of this bs that is having some real pushback from reasonable middle-ground people (i.e. the increasing number of university professors who are starting to speak out against the atmosphere now found at many universities), who previously just kind of took the increasingly stifling anti-free-speech inclinations of the modern left as an annoyance to be ignored. Haha, I wouldn't question the wisdom of "ingenious" people either.

Climate Barbie and the wonderful sunny days team want to codify "indigenous knowledge:?????????????? Yeah, when the Vikings, then French and finally English got here, they found all of these universities, libraries, technological centers, etc. - this vast store of "indigenous knowledge". The aboriginal population has given so much knowledge to the world. Next thing you know Ralph Goodale will be proposing a bill to recognize that Plato, Euclid, Pythagoras, Davinci, Tessla, Einstein and Hawking will be officially declared Swamp Cree.

I've heard that from Indigenous people. Traditionally, they conducted controlled burns to rejuvenate mixed forests and to protect their communities. I also think there's another factor: replanting with monoculture - 'industrial forests'. I remember when there was no replanting and environmentalists protested and demanded replanting. We got it ... but forestry companies replanted only one species that they could harvest in ~20 years. I think that's what's burning out of control with no diversity among the trees to slow it down ... the monoculture ... industrial 'forests' that aren't real forests at all, but 'tree farms'.

Whatever they are they'll probably only add more fuel to the fire.

What's going on there is not funny at all. Neither is attacking someone who's been there and understands. While it's a sad situation, many of my freinds who were also affected in Fort Mac are happy to make donations to the Red Cross for BC, the entire country supported us and it's nice to be able to give back to the same ones who helped us.

It's called empathy.

How did you get there? God give it you, did He? Theft is theft is theft is theft is theft.