Carney is not only not an original thinker, but on most subjects he doesn’t even bother to think at all. He doesn’t agree with his father’s take on residential schools. How so? Does he dispute his father’s claim that a parent of an Indigenous child had to sign an application form for the child to be admitted to a residential school? Probably not, but he doesn’t say. He really doesn’t say anything, just the minimum timid response to align him with the Liberal policy of connecting residential schools with Satanism and he'll leave it at that.
Ask him for his policy on Ukraine and he says that Ukrainian territorial integrity must b resp;ected? What does that mean exactly? That Kyiv should resume control of all the territory it controlled when the Russian invasion occurred on February 22, 2020, i.e. with most of Donetsk and Luhansk still not under its control? That all of the territory in the four oblasts formally annexed by Russia in 2022 should return to Kyiv’s control? That things should go back to how they were before mid-March 2014, i.e. before Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula? Probably the latter, but he won’t exactly say and he won’t deign to say why.
On January 30, 2018, in testimony before the Select Committee on Economic Affairs of the House of Lords, Bank of England Governor Carney was asked by Lord Livermore if he were surprised that the Office of National Statistics was unwilling to correct known errors in the Retail Prices Index. The “known errors” expression came from Chris Giles of the Financial Times and really related only to the use of the Carli formula at the elementary aggregation level in the index, a problem adequately resolved by the experimental RPIJ series calculated by the ONS. However, Carney had no problem with the question and responded: ““We would share some of those views about how the index is calculated, using the Carli method, which has an asymmetric bias, and how housing costs are implemented, as well as issues about clothing. So there are some known errors.” (Note the use of the royal we, habitual with Carney.) These three issues are really just two, since the use of the Carli formula instead of Jevons makes a bigger difference for clothing than for any other expenditure category. This, as I said, is adequately fixed in the RPIJ series, which Carney has never deigned to mention in any of his public remarks. The “how housing costs are implemented” is typical Carney vagueness. He is necessarily vague, since the RPI methodology is essentially the same accounting costs approach methodology used in the Canadian CPI which he had NEVER found any fault with in all his years working for the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance. He was just a hired gun, paid a lot of money to defend the UK CPI and CPIH and to attack the RPI, so that was what he was going to do.
Carney’s father does seem to have been a very good man, with a lot more integrity than his son.
I think Mark Carney is an empty vessel. His policies represent globalist ambitions, making him a puppet of foreign interests. But Andrew is digressing from the topic Peter Best put forth, which I agree was excellent. RM
Well said Andrew. Much of what Carney says is politically correct. In other words, it's all virtue signaling of no substance, meaningless rhetoric designed solely to keep the mainstream media and his other supporters from cancelling him. Wouldn't it be something if someone forced him to explain how and why he disagrees with his very thoughtful father. That'll NEVER happen.
Thank you for your kind words, Russ. Sadly, I don't think it's likely any journo would bother to ask him to explain how his views on residential schools differ from his father's or his other strange statements. TVO's The Agenda kept me from posting on their website regarding Carney. in 2021. Steve Paikin passed the buck and said I should ask someone or other if they wanted to publish my "important" views. The scare quotes around important were supposed to be a zinger of an insult, but it only showed just how clueless he was. The issue wasn't my views at all. It was Carney's very inconsistent views.
Great article one worth saving Wanda just wants to perpetuate the money for nothing machine. Carney has sold his soul to the devil along time ago anything for money and power
William Wuttunee was a wise man, and also very correct. But here we are trillions of dollars later, and the native are still in the same rut. Living in poverty while the chiefs are millionaires. The conman is greedy destroyer. Destruction for his own greedy self.
In Canada in 2025 William Wuttunee and Robert Carney would both be despised and called traitors and deniers. The TRC narrative, that denounces our ancestors as racists and genocidaires, has captured all of our institutions. Even law societies have succumbed.
At the time when Wuttunee was writing Jean Cretien was Indian Affairs minister. In the early 70s Cretien declared that Canada would be out of the “Indian business” in 5 years. Having lived around Indians all my life, I celebrated but am still waiting for us to defund a charity based on racist beliefs.
Excellent article. What we have to do is stop the indoctrination of our kids at school, starting with banning the land acknowledgements that are just preps for more land claims and special rights, more perpetual "us and them" thinking to keep the profitable racial divide going. Looks like the lawyers have largely sold out as have our leftist judges and our politicians are short-sighted and gutless. We need a national referendum on special race-based rights and scrapping the Indian Act as Wuttunee called for, as did Pierre Trudeau and Cretien (the last courageous acts of politicians before they caved). And bail out of UNDRIP and the provincial DRIPA. Time to make everyone equal again.
As Peter Best said in his riveting book "There is No Difference", the Indians need a Mandela figure to stop the racism on both sides and get people together again for a better future. And Mandela was all about equality for all, not race-based equity. White folks respected and trusted him.
It seems to me that Indigenous Politics promotes and fights to maintain racism for economic gain and nothing else. Playing the 'victim' of the 'evil white man's manipulations' ensures that millions/billions of dollars are regularly poured in to the coffers of the native elite without any benefit to the general population. The 'victim' story line is taught at an early age, much like the Re-education schools in China. Even when the truth is declared by such as Wanda's father and Mark Carney's father, politics, greed and selfishness fight vehemently to suppress it and to mythologize it as in the Residential School/grave site fiasco.
Brilliant. I have long-admired Peter Best for his willingness to speak with intellectual honesty about the curse of apartheid in Canada. This deserves the widest possible dissemination across Canada especially in the intellectual deserts of academe.
Yes You are correct about dispersing these comment. But academe will just shrug it off as another , how shall I say it, threat to their comfortable life style.
It seems that common sense has given way to politics to an extreme degree when it comes to relegating indigenous peoples to reservations. Mostly, it's the fault of the Aboriginals for being content with occupying land they and the early colonial powers agreed to. They couldn't see far enough into the future to realize that their lives would be changed forever, and they were no longer stewards of the land.
They agreed to segregation to preserve their culture and heritage. Cutting themselves off from the dominant English and the lesser French colonial powers, so that their way of life would not be undermined. But, over time, that's precisely what happened.
Today, many reservations are little more than ghettos. As in William Wuttunee's childhood, he and his family, along with probably others in his tribe, lived in poverty. Even with all the money and government projects provided to the indigenous peoples, it has created a cesspool of corruption mixed in with politics. Instead of being creative and innovative, most native people live in hopelessness, despair, and struggle, though there are examples of success within these native reserves.
In conclusion, as many educated immigrants who arrive in Canada to create a better life for themselves and their children, integration into our society and social structure is part of that process. The same should be available to native peoples as well. People, no matter who they are or where they're from, may need to adapt to a changing world to improve their lives. William Wuttunee was right all along. RM
I worked for over 10 yrs for an NGO that focused on community development. This is the model they found to be most effective:
1) Community must want to develop
2) Every community has resources or talents that can be developed
3) Find leaders or respected members that want to be involved
4) if there is a church, include them
5) the Community must contribute
6) Orgs role is to facilitate not lead
7) If there is no community contribution there is no project
8) the Community must help neighboring communities in the model
9) Leave the community at 10yrs.
This has improved the lives of millions of people in developing nations. How does this relate to reserves? The reserve system ensures a provider and a recipient. The Council is the arbiter of fund distribution and isn't always answerable to the Community. The residents don't have to contribute or support development projects. The Provider bears responsibility not the Leadership. The reserve system is self perpetuating and never lifts residents out of poverty. All failures are attributed to the Provider. The leaders who will not submit to an audit only lower trust from the band members. Demoralized or discouraged people do not look to improve their communities. They escape in one way or another. I suggest we, Natives and "Colonists" end the reserve system and work collaboratively to improve community life, on and off reserve.
Wuttunee and Carney have both chosen to let “popularity” and political corruption direct their lives! Certainly no one expects their children to mirror a parent’s lifestyle or vocation. However, some basic and fundamental characteristics and beliefs have contributed to the greatness of Canada. Like honesty, respect, recognition to name a few. Wuttunee and Carney have none of these. Both chose to not only by-pass the contributions and wise but seemingly unpopular beliefs of a father, but join and support ideologies we all know are devastating to both First Nations and Canadians as a whole.
Excellent commentary. I think most people would get behind Indigenous people for wanting to make their own way and be able to be part of creating their own wealth and freedom. However this would make them independent and stronger and its something the govt don't want. Again just handing out money, which the daughter appears to continue to want, makes people weak and nothing to strive for. OK for some but many would like it to come by their own efforts. A lot of parents today just give and give to their kids and it makes them weak and unable to move forward. I challenge parents to take a look at their kids Christmas day and ask if the pile of gifts under the tree makes them happy long term. Last year watched Grand children just throw things aside as they ripped each one apart. Partner and I can no longer enjoy Christmas as it seems to be an orgy of greed.
The FBI made numerous arrests this AM, members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front in America that were planning numerous bombings of New Year's Eve celebrations in US. A quick google search indicates there is an active presence of TILF in Canada backed fully by Canadian taxpayer $$$$$. TILF as also been tied to ANTIFA & Palestinian protestors.
Great op-ed by Peter Best.
Carney is not only not an original thinker, but on most subjects he doesn’t even bother to think at all. He doesn’t agree with his father’s take on residential schools. How so? Does he dispute his father’s claim that a parent of an Indigenous child had to sign an application form for the child to be admitted to a residential school? Probably not, but he doesn’t say. He really doesn’t say anything, just the minimum timid response to align him with the Liberal policy of connecting residential schools with Satanism and he'll leave it at that.
Ask him for his policy on Ukraine and he says that Ukrainian territorial integrity must b resp;ected? What does that mean exactly? That Kyiv should resume control of all the territory it controlled when the Russian invasion occurred on February 22, 2020, i.e. with most of Donetsk and Luhansk still not under its control? That all of the territory in the four oblasts formally annexed by Russia in 2022 should return to Kyiv’s control? That things should go back to how they were before mid-March 2014, i.e. before Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula? Probably the latter, but he won’t exactly say and he won’t deign to say why.
On January 30, 2018, in testimony before the Select Committee on Economic Affairs of the House of Lords, Bank of England Governor Carney was asked by Lord Livermore if he were surprised that the Office of National Statistics was unwilling to correct known errors in the Retail Prices Index. The “known errors” expression came from Chris Giles of the Financial Times and really related only to the use of the Carli formula at the elementary aggregation level in the index, a problem adequately resolved by the experimental RPIJ series calculated by the ONS. However, Carney had no problem with the question and responded: ““We would share some of those views about how the index is calculated, using the Carli method, which has an asymmetric bias, and how housing costs are implemented, as well as issues about clothing. So there are some known errors.” (Note the use of the royal we, habitual with Carney.) These three issues are really just two, since the use of the Carli formula instead of Jevons makes a bigger difference for clothing than for any other expenditure category. This, as I said, is adequately fixed in the RPIJ series, which Carney has never deigned to mention in any of his public remarks. The “how housing costs are implemented” is typical Carney vagueness. He is necessarily vague, since the RPI methodology is essentially the same accounting costs approach methodology used in the Canadian CPI which he had NEVER found any fault with in all his years working for the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance. He was just a hired gun, paid a lot of money to defend the UK CPI and CPIH and to attack the RPI, so that was what he was going to do.
Carney’s father does seem to have been a very good man, with a lot more integrity than his son.
I think Mark Carney is an empty vessel. His policies represent globalist ambitions, making him a puppet of foreign interests. But Andrew is digressing from the topic Peter Best put forth, which I agree was excellent. RM
Carny only says as did his predessesor say what he was told to say.
Well said Andrew. Much of what Carney says is politically correct. In other words, it's all virtue signaling of no substance, meaningless rhetoric designed solely to keep the mainstream media and his other supporters from cancelling him. Wouldn't it be something if someone forced him to explain how and why he disagrees with his very thoughtful father. That'll NEVER happen.
Thank you for your kind words, Russ. Sadly, I don't think it's likely any journo would bother to ask him to explain how his views on residential schools differ from his father's or his other strange statements. TVO's The Agenda kept me from posting on their website regarding Carney. in 2021. Steve Paikin passed the buck and said I should ask someone or other if they wanted to publish my "important" views. The scare quotes around important were supposed to be a zinger of an insult, but it only showed just how clueless he was. The issue wasn't my views at all. It was Carney's very inconsistent views.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and observations. They confirm exactly what I have believed all along. Mark Carney is an opportunistic fraud.
Thank you for your kind words, Kim. "Opportunistic fraud" is an excellent description of him. Well said!
Great article one worth saving Wanda just wants to perpetuate the money for nothing machine. Carney has sold his soul to the devil along time ago anything for money and power
I do think You are correct in Your assessment of carnage. Sad to say but true in My opinion.
William Wuttunee was a wise man, and also very correct. But here we are trillions of dollars later, and the native are still in the same rut. Living in poverty while the chiefs are millionaires. The conman is greedy destroyer. Destruction for his own greedy self.
In Canada in 2025 William Wuttunee and Robert Carney would both be despised and called traitors and deniers. The TRC narrative, that denounces our ancestors as racists and genocidaires, has captured all of our institutions. Even law societies have succumbed.
It sounds like William and Robert were indeed both despised and called traitors by their own kids! Very sad for them both.
At the time when Wuttunee was writing Jean Cretien was Indian Affairs minister. In the early 70s Cretien declared that Canada would be out of the “Indian business” in 5 years. Having lived around Indians all my life, I celebrated but am still waiting for us to defund a charity based on racist beliefs.
IMO, YOUR COMMENT IS WORTH A MILLION WORDS.. THANK YOU !!
Excellent article. What we have to do is stop the indoctrination of our kids at school, starting with banning the land acknowledgements that are just preps for more land claims and special rights, more perpetual "us and them" thinking to keep the profitable racial divide going. Looks like the lawyers have largely sold out as have our leftist judges and our politicians are short-sighted and gutless. We need a national referendum on special race-based rights and scrapping the Indian Act as Wuttunee called for, as did Pierre Trudeau and Cretien (the last courageous acts of politicians before they caved). And bail out of UNDRIP and the provincial DRIPA. Time to make everyone equal again.
As Peter Best said in his riveting book "There is No Difference", the Indians need a Mandela figure to stop the racism on both sides and get people together again for a better future. And Mandela was all about equality for all, not race-based equity. White folks respected and trusted him.
It seems to me that Indigenous Politics promotes and fights to maintain racism for economic gain and nothing else. Playing the 'victim' of the 'evil white man's manipulations' ensures that millions/billions of dollars are regularly poured in to the coffers of the native elite without any benefit to the general population. The 'victim' story line is taught at an early age, much like the Re-education schools in China. Even when the truth is declared by such as Wanda's father and Mark Carney's father, politics, greed and selfishness fight vehemently to suppress it and to mythologize it as in the Residential School/grave site fiasco.
outstanding!
Brilliant. I have long-admired Peter Best for his willingness to speak with intellectual honesty about the curse of apartheid in Canada. This deserves the widest possible dissemination across Canada especially in the intellectual deserts of academe.
Yes You are correct about dispersing these comment. But academe will just shrug it off as another , how shall I say it, threat to their comfortable life style.
It seems that common sense has given way to politics to an extreme degree when it comes to relegating indigenous peoples to reservations. Mostly, it's the fault of the Aboriginals for being content with occupying land they and the early colonial powers agreed to. They couldn't see far enough into the future to realize that their lives would be changed forever, and they were no longer stewards of the land.
They agreed to segregation to preserve their culture and heritage. Cutting themselves off from the dominant English and the lesser French colonial powers, so that their way of life would not be undermined. But, over time, that's precisely what happened.
Today, many reservations are little more than ghettos. As in William Wuttunee's childhood, he and his family, along with probably others in his tribe, lived in poverty. Even with all the money and government projects provided to the indigenous peoples, it has created a cesspool of corruption mixed in with politics. Instead of being creative and innovative, most native people live in hopelessness, despair, and struggle, though there are examples of success within these native reserves.
In conclusion, as many educated immigrants who arrive in Canada to create a better life for themselves and their children, integration into our society and social structure is part of that process. The same should be available to native peoples as well. People, no matter who they are or where they're from, may need to adapt to a changing world to improve their lives. William Wuttunee was right all along. RM
I worked for over 10 yrs for an NGO that focused on community development. This is the model they found to be most effective:
1) Community must want to develop
2) Every community has resources or talents that can be developed
3) Find leaders or respected members that want to be involved
4) if there is a church, include them
5) the Community must contribute
6) Orgs role is to facilitate not lead
7) If there is no community contribution there is no project
8) the Community must help neighboring communities in the model
9) Leave the community at 10yrs.
This has improved the lives of millions of people in developing nations. How does this relate to reserves? The reserve system ensures a provider and a recipient. The Council is the arbiter of fund distribution and isn't always answerable to the Community. The residents don't have to contribute or support development projects. The Provider bears responsibility not the Leadership. The reserve system is self perpetuating and never lifts residents out of poverty. All failures are attributed to the Provider. The leaders who will not submit to an audit only lower trust from the band members. Demoralized or discouraged people do not look to improve their communities. They escape in one way or another. I suggest we, Natives and "Colonists" end the reserve system and work collaboratively to improve community life, on and off reserve.
Wuttunee and Carney have both chosen to let “popularity” and political corruption direct their lives! Certainly no one expects their children to mirror a parent’s lifestyle or vocation. However, some basic and fundamental characteristics and beliefs have contributed to the greatness of Canada. Like honesty, respect, recognition to name a few. Wuttunee and Carney have none of these. Both chose to not only by-pass the contributions and wise but seemingly unpopular beliefs of a father, but join and support ideologies we all know are devastating to both First Nations and Canadians as a whole.
Also admitting a mistake, taking responsibility, and correcting it. Thanks Marilyn.
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What!?! A liberal politician throwing someone under the bus to further their career? Oh no. I can't believe it. It must be a smear job.
Gotta be Trump's fault.
Excellent commentary. I think most people would get behind Indigenous people for wanting to make their own way and be able to be part of creating their own wealth and freedom. However this would make them independent and stronger and its something the govt don't want. Again just handing out money, which the daughter appears to continue to want, makes people weak and nothing to strive for. OK for some but many would like it to come by their own efforts. A lot of parents today just give and give to their kids and it makes them weak and unable to move forward. I challenge parents to take a look at their kids Christmas day and ask if the pile of gifts under the tree makes them happy long term. Last year watched Grand children just throw things aside as they ripped each one apart. Partner and I can no longer enjoy Christmas as it seems to be an orgy of greed.
The FBI made numerous arrests this AM, members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front in America that were planning numerous bombings of New Year's Eve celebrations in US. A quick google search indicates there is an active presence of TILF in Canada backed fully by Canadian taxpayer $$$$$. TILF as also been tied to ANTIFA & Palestinian protestors.
The thing that really gets my goat is that csis, the rcmp know this but can not do anything about as the "controllers" will not let them.
I say let Indians pay for excavation. If human bodies found Canada reimburse. If not no more talk
For the activists no excavations is an ATM machine money keeps flowing.