Law&Order

Using "make believe" distracts from the real issue. What I find odd is that Harper asks "is this going to be published?" and then goes on to say the the two guys that visited Cadman were making a financial offer to cover his expenses of another election. Yet we all know Cadman didn't have much time left, and likely would have never made it through another election. What does Harper know and will he be willing to tell the truth during an investigation? My bet is he will fail the test.

As I was watching the news last night, I too wondered about the "insurance". And what I heard his wife and his daughter say was that they would receive a "death benefit" of $1 million after Chuck's death directly from the CPC. The CPC knows that offering an inducement is illegal. However, offering it to a widow after a death would hardly make the news. I think the RCMP do need to investigate this since we all know that the CPC were desperate to take the government down over this issue and that Cadman's vote was pivotal. ANY OFFER seems to be controversial and the RCMP need to tell us if this was just a stupid mistake, or an attempt to bribe an MP to vote a certain way. I also agree that this doesn't look good on Harper. He knew about the meetings and the calls and even the attempts to get Cadman's vote. If his two party members added a financial offer he didn't know about, then he needs to reveal who those two people are and let the RCMP investigate them too.

Of course! That was a slip.

The Indian Act was enacted under Alexander MacKenzie Canada's second Prime Minister. He was a Conservative. However, the concept came from Sir John A MacDonald Canada's 1st and 3rd Prime Minister.

The Indian Act further limits anyone from seizing property belonging to an Indian on reserve, so even chattels are off limits. In some areas of Ontario banks have struck a deal with the First Nation's Band to have them underwrite mortgages and in the event of non-payment the band pays the bank. However, funds are limited and that is why there is no housing market economy available on reserves. That is a serious limitation to economic development and the government can be blamed for the poor economic conditions on First Nations.

Actually the title of this thread should be John Tory's lawless Ontario since he made it all up and it is a figment of his imagination just like his job as an MPP. He wasn't elected in Ontario (in fact his riding REJECTED him). The law is being enforced in Ontario, just like it is in the rest of Canada.

Check out this map: John Mitchell 1757 http://www.davidrumsey.com/detail?id=1-1-2...+North+America+ You have to disable you pop-up blocker for this site. Then zoom in about 3 or 4 times. There is a dotted line there that follows the Ottawa River north of Lake Nippissing, down the west side of Lake Huron and under Lake Ontario and all the way up to Montreal. All of this Territory belongs to the Six Nations in 1757 (which by the way is now the 8 Nations). The Canadian Government has a huge task on their hands in trying to prove that these lands were ceded to them by the Iroquois Confederacy (and forget about the Quebec Act since it only deals with colonies within the boundaries stated and was not (and could not be) a general claim to all these lands since it was prohibited under the Royal Proclamation).

The use of mitrochondrial dna haplogroups to determine migration and origin is a huge debatable theory. It can't pinpoint any timelines, or path of migration. It only links huge groups of similar DNA (we're talking about billions of people in one group) together and suggests that because one part of the group is located in one region, then all other parts of the group must be descended from them. The presence of mtDNA markers only suggest a connection to the group in theory, not necessarily as belonging entirely to that group. Archaeologically speaking the Europeans are relative late-comers to Europe compared with the archaeological findings in the Americas since the earliest archaeological discoveries here predate Europes by almost 10,000 years. So the idea that Europeans could have been here before aboriginal people is somewhat absurd.