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Cuba's doing fine. We can take a lesson. It's not about toadying to the billionaires. It's about serving the needs of the people.

Show a little more respect for the people who pay your salary to conduct yourselves impartially and do what Constitutional Law says. We're the boss of you.

Do you know him? Why wouldn't he identify himself?

Absolute disgusting conduct. Take a long walk, soldier.

Do you like having a Health card?

Hmmm ... but Tommy Douglas won the contest for Greatest Canadian.

Fortunately, "the occupiers" (ie, elected politicians of the governments of Canada and the provinces) do not make all the rules: No legislation can override Constitutional rights, which include Aboriginal and Treaty rights. The Supreme Court can strike such legislation down, and has done so, including elements of the 'Indian' Act.

The Mohawks and other Indigenous Nations do not act outside of law. Canada does. 14 year old Waneek Horn was only leaving the OKA site as ordered by the military, walking past soldiers as ordered. You are not only "cold blooded", but failing to verify facts before commenting outrageously, failing to verify the lawfulness of orders or actions. "Meh I got other shit to do" is not good enough. Your uninformed and violent rantings are disgusting. The behaviour of that murderous Canadian soldier was disgusting. The criminal silence of other soldiers present was disgusting. Clearly, there is no honour or respect for the law among members of the Canadian Armed Forces who would brutalize children of the Queen's Mohawk allies, and then cover it up.

It isn't just about loyalism. It's about law. Disentangling from 'the Crown' would be a very long and very expensive process, and would require a complete revamp of our governance to provide new protections for democracy - checks and balances on the powers of government, to deter them from corruption. I'm not a loyalist, but I'm ok with current status for those reasons. The Queen still involves herself directly in some matters of legal significance - esp. the Queen's Treaties and Royal Proclamations with Indigenous Nations: They have a direct line of communication with her via GG, and without going through the PM or parliament, because Indigenous Nations are not 'Subjects' of the Crown (like we are), but (equal) Allies of the Crown. For example, the silver Covenant Chain is a complex peace and friendship treaty first established between the Mohawks (Haudenosaunee Confederacy) and the monarchy in 1710, as allies and equals. It is periodically renewed or "polished", typically by a royal visit and a gift of silver. In 2010, the Queen requested a visit with the Mohawks at the Royal Chapel of the Mohawks (near Belleville) and "polished" the Covenant Chain agreement with a gift of silver bells engraved "Covenant Chain 1710-2010". Some MP's attended this celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Covenant Chain, but PM Harper chose not to attend. LOL Major media did not report on this event in the Royal Visit, only the Belleville Intelligencer did and it's no longer online. The Queen is more than just a figurehead. She takes responsibility for her legal agreements, and asserts her influence as needed ... did an 'end run' on Harper at the request of the Haudenosaunee. LOL

NATIONAL POST https://nationalpost.com/sports/warrior-spirit-powers-cheerleader-in-chief Horn-Miller is Kahnawake Mohawk, and an Oka veteran. She was 14 when the crisis erupted, and she ended it in a blood-drenched shirt — after being bayonetted in the chest by a Canadian soldier during a chaotic melee that concluded the 78-day standoff. “You want to see the scar?” Horn-Miller says, pulling down her shirt, revealing a jagged line above her left breast. ‘The doctor said if the bayonet had hit a centimetre to the left, or right, I would have been dead.”

We don't use the word "tribes" in Canada. 'Band' for Canada's First Nations. 'Nation' for traditional groups - eg, Mohawk Nation. By this error, and your other comments, I surmise that we have two 'USAmericans' - Zeitgeist and BC_2004 - here in this thread, telling Canadians what to do, shilling for the oil boys. MYOB. It's case by case only until criteria for evidence are established by the Supreme Court that can then be applied by governments. Your comments are uninformed and malicious, Zeitgeist. People of your ultraconservative and uninformed opinions - Indigenous people 'should' pull themselves up by their bootstraps - ie by taxation and fossil fuel development - fail to inform themselves of the Canadian truths, and are usually paid trolls here shilling for the oil boys. FACT 1: If Canada paid its historic and still outstanding Treaty and Rights debts for land taken illegally ('land claims'), resources extracted but not paid for, Indigenous Nations would not be impoverished. FACT 2: Canada made treaties in bad faith, not intending to honour them but instead, trying to destroy Indigenous Nations via genocidal tactics to avoid paying those debts. FACT 3: The Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled that the treaty and Aboriginal rights must be honoured (the debts must be paid, the land returned or compensated, etc.). FACT 4: Canada is still dealing in bad faith, attempting to extort 'extinguishment' of Aboriginal and treaty rights for $$$. Still illegal, still obvious genocidal tactics. FACT 5: USAmericans can butt the f out of our business. The fossil fuel industries can butt the f out of government business: Government belongs to the people, not to the oil boys!

Dumb as a post.

Irish. You're on. Wait for it ... /grins

Just make sure I get to be there when you're 'taking no sass' from Lakota warrior women.

Next time, make sure you tell Lakota warriors that a 14 year old Mohawk girl carrying a younger child "getting a little bit poked by a bayonet, but otherwise going on with their life" is not important. And I want to be there to see it! btw .. it wasn't "a little bit". She almost died. Bet that soldier was shitting bricks!

Lol One would think ... and true: Tsilqotin 2017 established Aboriginal Title for the first time in Canada, in BC, where there was no treaty. but ... Court challenges are often too expensive for Indigenous peoples, so governments just go ahead and approve anything, and risk court challenges after the deed is done ... or blockades. (Just like DAPL) Courts are reluctant to stop projects already in motion.

Now you are just being ignorant, likely racist and absolutely a disgusting human being. You have obviously failed to look up or learn anything. You are just derailing the thread with your ignorant denial. Give it up, soldier. You know nothing, refuse to learn, and you don't represent the CAF well. She was a 14 year old Mohawk girl carrying her 4 year old sister, leaving the site at the end of OKA. Smart, sassy, a future Olympian. A Canadian soldier didn't like what she said, and plunged a bayonet into her chest less than an inch from her heart. Sounds like attempted murder to me. Obviously you don't want to know, so shut your ignorant mouth, Dougie.

Those criteria are already established by the SCoC, Delgamuuk 1997, and applied in Tsilqotin 2017. You could look them up to clarify your understanding of the law.

So gather the facts, soldier! And if you don't bother looking, you won't see any evidence, won't know the circumstances, motives, facts ... you 'know nutting'! Nice work, soldier! TURN THAT BLIND EYE TO THE TRUTH LIKE THEY TAUGHT YOU! Did you even read the article in the Toronto Star? See the picture?! The Star didn't even say "alleged", so it appears that the facts have already been established, likely through her human rights complaint. Only the soldier's identity remains a mystery, because other SOLDIERS WON'T TELL THE TRUTH. You can find the truth if you look.

Of course a victims' report doesn't matter to you. No investigation, no official report, no investigation, no inquest ... lies lies lies. Check the hospital records, etc. Lots of ways to learn the truth ... IF the CAF wanted to find the truth, but they don't. Waneek is a public figure, as a former Olympian and an activist. She speaks about it openly. The CAF has never called her a liar, sued her for defamation, conducted an investigation, etc. Just silence. You're an idiot if you believe what you wrote. Go look for the evidence yourself. Get the CAF to investigate the truth of her accounts. At this point, it appears that they don't have the balls, or the morals. And you obviously are not interesred in the truth, can't even be bothered googling! See report and photo here: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/07/10/pan-ams-waneek-horn-miller-an-oka-crisis-survivor.html

You lucked out. LOL Where is it written that a CAF soldier must decline unlawful orders?