Hymie Rubenstein writes, "Mark Carney’s widely reported January 21 speech to global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was full of irony."
Excellent column. This is how it needs to be said, directly. Natives were uncivilized brutes. They didn't have a wheel, metal, or written language. They treated women terribly (still do). Colonialization improved their lives. Residential schools were better than anything they had (have?). And Canada would have developed fine if they hadn't existed.
Everything about him, especially when he opens up his yap is FULL OF IRONY.
There is nothing real about this guy's persona when it comes to what he is saying to the Elbowzoe crowd who, sadly, eats his garbage up.
The Indigenous types are full of stories, legends, nothing written down and little to nothing that can be shown to be accurate or provable or resembling reality or verifiable.
All taken by the woke joke so-called Progressives as truth, and historically accurate.
Some may indeed have some semblance to history.. Perhaps.. Maybe..
Perhaps though some wizards in Ottawa might like to put their BS support where they mouth is.
SHOVELS IN THE GROUND might be a good start as opposed to shovelling that which one picks up after one's dog.
Colonization gave Indians much more than it took from them. Those who have taken advantage of its gifts - education, economic opportunity - have done just fine. Those who have heeded the advice of charlatans, like Nigaan, and remained dependent and poor on uneconomic reserves - pretending they are special - have not.
My history book tells me that even before creation existed, before even time existed, God created the qualities of honesty, respect, trust, unity, patience, gratitude, kindness, generosity, piety and hope. Oh and patience is also good. Wisdom is needed to discriminate between them. Love rules over them all.
Democracy was born in the multi theistic society of ancient Greece. They had decided that honesty, respect and fairness were good.
Centuries later, the barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, obliging him to be humble and respectful of the Law.
To test Professor Sinclair’s honesty, ask him if “Turtle Island” sits on the back of a turtle.
The ancient Greeks would be surprised to read that they "knew next to nothing about democracy until they encountered civilizations who sat in circles and shared ideas and stories in order to compromise and make decisions collectively." I think that through necessity, this type of decision-making was common in most iron age tribes in Europe.
Nigaan Sinclair is a guy who was born on third base and believes that he got there by hitting a triple. If he wasn't the son of former senator Murray Sinclair, no-one ever would have heard of his ravings. I think Rubenstein is too dismissive of the impact of the Iroquois Confederacy on the Founding Fathers in the United States. Brought up in the English common law tradition, it was natural for them to look for precedents for the kind of federation they were creating and the Iroquois Confederacy was one that had been created in North America. It is also noteworthy that the American Constitution has no right to secede built into it, unlike some later constitutions, like the one that established the Soviet Union. This may also have been influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy, which actually went beyond that to stipulate that any move to break up the Confederacy by one or more of the members would be resisted with force.
Sinclair is clearly a whackjob on steroids. Best to let him wander off into the hinterland - tell him a poor indian is wandering out there all alone in a 'herd' of polar bears, then send him out in a cow costume made of raw weiners.....
Thanks Hymie for clear-headed rebuttal of stupid arguments based on fantasy. The "noble" savage was never "noble" just as the rest of us are sinners in need of a saviour - Jesus, the Christ (John 3:16).
When it comes right down to it, people are still people no matter where you go or what their background may be. You don't really know who or what you are until your back is to the wall.
Excellent column. This is how it needs to be said, directly. Natives were uncivilized brutes. They didn't have a wheel, metal, or written language. They treated women terribly (still do). Colonialization improved their lives. Residential schools were better than anything they had (have?). And Canada would have developed fine if they hadn't existed.
Carney is a fraud.
Everything about him, especially when he opens up his yap is FULL OF IRONY.
There is nothing real about this guy's persona when it comes to what he is saying to the Elbowzoe crowd who, sadly, eats his garbage up.
The Indigenous types are full of stories, legends, nothing written down and little to nothing that can be shown to be accurate or provable or resembling reality or verifiable.
All taken by the woke joke so-called Progressives as truth, and historically accurate.
Some may indeed have some semblance to history.. Perhaps.. Maybe..
Perhaps though some wizards in Ottawa might like to put their BS support where they mouth is.
SHOVELS IN THE GROUND might be a good start as opposed to shovelling that which one picks up after one's dog.
Colonization gave Indians much more than it took from them. Those who have taken advantage of its gifts - education, economic opportunity - have done just fine. Those who have heeded the advice of charlatans, like Nigaan, and remained dependent and poor on uneconomic reserves - pretending they are special - have not.
Anything written by a Sinclair is suspect. His father lied in the T&R commission report, he continues it today.
My history book tells me that even before creation existed, before even time existed, God created the qualities of honesty, respect, trust, unity, patience, gratitude, kindness, generosity, piety and hope. Oh and patience is also good. Wisdom is needed to discriminate between them. Love rules over them all.
Democracy was born in the multi theistic society of ancient Greece. They had decided that honesty, respect and fairness were good.
Centuries later, the barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, obliging him to be humble and respectful of the Law.
To test Professor Sinclair’s honesty, ask him if “Turtle Island” sits on the back of a turtle.
The ancient Greeks would be surprised to read that they "knew next to nothing about democracy until they encountered civilizations who sat in circles and shared ideas and stories in order to compromise and make decisions collectively." I think that through necessity, this type of decision-making was common in most iron age tribes in Europe.
Nigaan Sinclair is a guy who was born on third base and believes that he got there by hitting a triple. If he wasn't the son of former senator Murray Sinclair, no-one ever would have heard of his ravings. I think Rubenstein is too dismissive of the impact of the Iroquois Confederacy on the Founding Fathers in the United States. Brought up in the English common law tradition, it was natural for them to look for precedents for the kind of federation they were creating and the Iroquois Confederacy was one that had been created in North America. It is also noteworthy that the American Constitution has no right to secede built into it, unlike some later constitutions, like the one that established the Soviet Union. This may also have been influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy, which actually went beyond that to stipulate that any move to break up the Confederacy by one or more of the members would be resisted with force.
An application of the truth will set you free, a truth that needs to be visited sooner than later for sure in Canada.
Sinclair is clearly a whackjob on steroids. Best to let him wander off into the hinterland - tell him a poor indian is wandering out there all alone in a 'herd' of polar bears, then send him out in a cow costume made of raw weiners.....
He won't wander off. He's got it too good here, getting paid by us to lie about us.
Good read. There will always be individuals who rewrite history and historical fact and advocate for that which never existed.
Thanks Hymie for clear-headed rebuttal of stupid arguments based on fantasy. The "noble" savage was never "noble" just as the rest of us are sinners in need of a saviour - Jesus, the Christ (John 3:16).
When it comes right down to it, people are still people no matter where you go or what their background may be. You don't really know who or what you are until your back is to the wall.