I am Groot

Perhaps these people aren't as divorced from reality as you extremists on the far left. Legal prowess has virtually nothing to do with judicial appointments. Witness our last supreme court appointment. The way illiberal judges have 'interpreted' the Charter makes it unconstitutional to do just about anything they disapprove of.

Hardner, the noble and objective arbiter of all that is good. ?

For those who at least reluctantly and initially (and with suspicion) accepted the Charter, the issue is not simply something violating the actual Charter. It is the way the judiciary has extended and built on the actual words of the Charter over the years to 'interpret' in ways never imagined by its authors, guided in most respects by their own political and social views. In short, the Charter today, replete with the precedents and interpretations of the judiciary often bears little resemblance to the Charter as written. Beverly McLachlan's view of the Charter as a living instrument which could grow included the idea of the judiciary as the gardeners deciding how it would grow. Then again, she's still contentedly working for the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, which makes her lack of interest in individual freedom and democracy rather apparent.

Abuse meaning being used for anything the Left doesn't like. I think you can drop the mask now. I doubt there's more than one or two people still on this forum who are in much doubt about your extreme partisanship, especially on social justice issues. There isn't a sliver of daylight between you and Jagmeet Singh. The only difference is Singh can, if forced, discuss issues without throwing around blanket insults. This is what, the third or fourth such post of yours recently demanding anyone who disagrees with you be put on ignore? Wouldn't you honestly be happier somewhere else where there's no one to disagree with your extremism? As an alternative, I suppose you can try to volunteer to be the moderator again and simply ban everyone who has ideas you don't approve of. I know that made you feel happy the last time.

People suggest judges must be unbiased if they were appointed under the conservatives, but it's not like there's a lot of choice available to them. The law societies, even more than the rest of the liberal arts faculties in universities, are irredeemably woke. Sometimes it seems to me they regard actual training in the law as secondary to their mission of churning out social justice warriors. We see this now in law societies trying to impose DEI views on their members and insist they sign pledges to that effect. In short, Harper had a helluva time finding conservatives to appoint. He was reduced to trying to appoint a semi-retired judge in Quebec to the Supreme Court for lack of any conservative alternatives. And the liberals on the supreme court said no.

The dishonesty of the Left is so great they even lie to themselves. Perhaps that's the only way they can justify their hatred and intolerance. They have to exaggerate or 'interpret' or simply lie about what others believe in order to properly demonize them and so ignore their opinions and wishes. It's why the Left no longer supports freedom of any kind. Freedom is anathema to their demand that everyone think, talk, speak and act like they do.

That has been the standard for the entire existence of mankind until very recently. Nor is it exactly something put to bed, as Russia so ably demonstrates. In historical terms, this country would never exist. We have no defenses and are uninterested in erecting any. We are undefended and refuse to defend ourselves. We exist on the suffrage of a more enlightened age. For now.

What a hyperbole-laden woke rant. Are you really that oblivious to history? I mean, just to start with they had no houses to burn down. Building houses was not within their means any more than the wheel. Native bands routinely attacked and slaughtered each other, stole their lands, raped their women, and tortured their men to death. Land belonged to those who could take it and hold it. So it was throughout the world through all of history. Why you weepy lefties insist on trying to portray Britain's relatively benign colonization here as something shocking and horrific with consequences that must endure for centuries is beyond me other than gross stupidity and self-dramatization. We're in today. The natives should simply be told they're lucky enough to be citizens of Canada. All reservations closed, all money sent to natives eliminated. They can move into the cities and towns and work like the rest of us.

This is the same play on words we constantly hear from the far left. Everything that denies them what they want is unkind. Every policy they advocate is good so everyone who opposes them is bad. They want to help people, and all their ideas do that so those who oppose their ideas don't want to help people. I mean, this sort of attitude is both intellectually barren and childish. It's the kind of sneering attitude you hear from know it all adolescents who actually don't know much about anything. I've come to accept there is something intrinsically missing in the lives of these people. They have nothing in their lives that makes them feel good about themselves so they take on this 'noble' undertaking of being white knights to whatever cause will give them a better sense of self-esteem and superiority over others.

Federal Indigenous spending, however, continues to grow faster than overall spending. It is projected to rise from about $25 billion in fiscal 2021-22 to about $35.5 billion in 2026-27, an increase of 42 percent in nominal dollars. Indigenous spending continues to rise as a proportion of the federal budget, from 6.1 percent in 2019-20 to 7.7 percent in 2026-27—an increase of 26 percent in seven years. Indigenous spending is increasingly driven by the negotiated settlement of class actions, such as those for Indian residential schools, Indian day schools, Indian hospitals, and boil-water advisories on Indian reserves. The biggest of these settlements is the $40 billion child welfare settlement announced in December 2021. The impact of this settlement upon Indigenous spending is difficult to observe because, under the principles of accrual accounting, much of it is backdated to earlier years. The Trudeau government has missed all its previous budgetary targets for Indigenous spending, so the increases announced in Budget 2022 will probably prove to be underestimates, especially if class actions continue to put unpredictable pressures on Indigenous funding commitments. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/indigenous-spending-in-budget-2022#:~:text=Federal Indigenous spending%2C however%2C continues,42 percent in nominal dollars. If it's useless, can we please have the money back? Money. More money. Self-government. Control over vast lands. More money. I'm reminded of a quote from Thomas Sowell who said that after studying what he called 'lagging groups' all around the world in a variety of countries he determined that the leadership of those groups never want to lead them toward goals that will bring them equality and integration with the mainstream because that would rob them of their power. So instead they advocate policies that will keep them down. We still have the Indian Act because native chiefs insist on keeping it. Everything you say is too woke and too dumb for me to comprehend.

And if I trusted the courts to decide anything based purely on evidence as opposed to their own progressive ideological beliefs I'd be more sanguine about that. But given the courts officially give credence to what a native says his grandfather told him HIS grandfather told him and HIS grandfather told him, and treat that as actual evidence, I'm not too confident.

It hasn't dawned on you that I don't believe they should get a damned thing more or less than what any other Canadian gets, has it?

So, you're saying natives will be whining and playing up the victimhood forever?

It was meant to be. Over the past eight years I've gone from having enormous sympathy for natives to being irritated and resentful every time I have to listen to another goddam whiny statement about how we're on the 'unceded land of the Algonquin' or hear myself described as a 'settler' or hear about billions and billion more going to natives to make up for this or that 'wrong' or see them blocking roads or rail lines or demanding Canada day be canceled or hearing one guilt-mongering story after another about how bad life is at this or that reserve. It's too much and I'm sick of it and sick of them. They have agency. Any one of them can stop feeling sorry for themselves, move into town and get a damn job like the rest of us.

Look at the guy who loves to portray himself as the wise, mature, neutral arbiter of intelligent discussion dismissing everyone who disagrees as morally inferior! LOL The Left loves to do this. All their policies and beliefs are noble and good and meant to HELP so anyone who disagrees is immoral and evil and cruel and wants to hurt the poor and are 'chuds' annoying 'decent people'. Those who integrated are a lot better off than those who didn't.

No, it's the tension between those who want order and those who crave disorder. You can see now because of liberal ascendency in the Anglosphere the high and growing level of disorder as liberals gleefully refuse to enforce laws and criminals and crazies roam the streets attacking anyone they want with impunity. The biggest issue for all of human society throughout history has been order and security. And right now, because of the left, that is waning. Those who own their own future and take responsibility for it are deplorable, are they?

Well gee, it's too bad there isn't some way for them to get off their reservations and come and live in the cities like the rest of us, eh? You think that happened to every kid at residential schools? It was never more than a small minority there. And there were sure a lot of pedos hanging out in ordinary schools, too. Not to mention working as coaches and boy scout leaders.

Ironically., the solution will be when the majority of Canadians are immigrants from Asia who don't care one bit about that supposed guilt and will have little patience for natives sitting out in the woods constantly holding their hands out for more. I suspect soon after they become the majority the money train will be halted.

It's called the Indian Act because the native chiefs wouldn't allow us to scrap it out of fear it would lessen their power over their people - and the money we continue to funnel through their hands.

My family came from Montreal. And they don't like Anglos in that province. Lots of stuff happened in my school that would have pissed people off. Such is life. No one made a big deal of it and life went on. "I punched this guy forty two years ago and he reminds me of it fourteen times a day. Which is why I want to punch him again."

I don't see a lot of celebrating or praise for our past rights or accomplishments these days. In fact, I never really saw many. The whole farce of Canada Day was a Liberal invention to persuade Quebec to love Canada, and it failed. We used to celebrate Dominion Day by doing essentially nothing.

Here's the truth: Nothing that happened before I was born gives me any sense of guilt whatsoever. Further, what Canada did with regard to natives is pretty minor in terms of world history and brutality/barbarity/cruelty. It wouldn't even make the first ten thousand entries on the list. Most of it was well-meaning and intended to help natives integrate rather than stay in the bushes as savages. Here's the truth: People come to this country from all over the world. They lie, cheat, steal, and for all I know, kill to get in here to have a better life. They might not speak a word of English or French, might not know much about our culture or how things work, might not have had many educational opportunities or skills that will command much remuneration here, but they know they and their children will have a better, more secure life here than where they came from. The ancestors of everyone BUT natives abandoned their homeland to risk everything to come here. Some of them needed to endure long, harsh journeys across the ocean on sailing ships. They did this in hopes of a better life. Because life was harsh where they had been living. Meanwhile, natives squat in the woods whining about how hard their lot in life is as we shower them with billions of dollars in free everything. "More! More! Give us more! Feel the shame! Feel the guilt! Buy us off! More! Still more! And yet they aren't exactly living like princes, now are they? Well, except for the chiefs and band councilors and their families, who are living the good life. I'm not interested in 'reconciliation', which always means paying them more money. If their life is hard then move. Come to the cities and towns, get a job. You already know the damn language. Stop whining about what happened to your grandmother, grow a pair and get on with life. If you want to sit out there in the bushes because your ancestors lived there then pay for it yourself. Think a lot of Canadians wouldn't like to live out in the country by a river or lake and take life easy? But they can't. They have to get a job to support themselves - and you. And those jobs are largely in the cities and towns. There's nothing so special about your 'culture' that needs to be preserved by you being a dime store Indian squatting in the bushes doing your little pow-wow dances now and then for the TV cameras. Quit holding your hand out for money and get a job.

People still insist this isn't happening. Hundreds of trans teens under 18 have had breasts removed in Canada, new data show https://ottawacitizen.com/news/canada/transgender-top-surgery-canadian-children/wcm/ceed8d49-95d4-42ff-b682-d88ddf32aec3

You some kind of foreigner?

It takes an even more special kind of fool to ignore the politics of why a guy like Trudeau would suddenly reverse course on his normal obsequious behavior towards anyone transgressing our sovereignty, and then exempt him from blame for the actions of other nations who have come to take that servile behaviour for granted.