Death of Freedoms?

Canada's posturing to try and get in step with the United States on its war on freedoms can only mean that even business will end up losing. While the rest of the world enjoys relative freedom, at least freedom from the insidious erosion of civil liberties in the United States and soon Canada, their economies are booming while ours is suffering.

The future however looks bright for those who really believe in things like justice, as for sure the police will arrest someone somewhere who is only looking out to eat the next meal by stealing or selling stolen goods, it seems this is the only life left for many in the "free world".

The future also looks bright for those with white skin who hate people with brown skin and who do not worship the same invisible friend called God. Only on this world do people blow each other up for imaginary friends who's voices no one can hear, and for a belief that is not of this world. Only human beings it seems are stupid enough to literally condemn themselves and the physical world to what they perceive as "hell" or "heaven".

Recently the well off nations forgave the poorer nations their debts, I guess the poorer nations it seems were not buying enough off the shelf modern weapons, heck some were actually using their "world bank loans" to actually help poor people. However the process of forgiveness of loans however seems to rely on the debtor nations in accounting for how they spent their money. I guess when the fingers started to point to the Bush family's consortium of weapons manufacturers I guess the audit was stopped and forgiveness granted so as to not shame the Saudi Ambassador to the US too much.

I guess all those weapons those 3rd world countries bought have become obsolete and they were so much in debt they could not afford to buy new ones except to create new markets and new sources of weapons. I guess the Chinese and the Koreans were selling too many weapons in return for bartered goods.

This is the danger of today's world. We see the erosion of civil liberties, the creation of new economies at the expense of our own because of the encroachment of laws on economy. Even the NAFTA crowd is warning the USA that it's war on common sense is beginning to eat away at the bottom line.

However when those who dictate the bottom line in Canada's and the USA's economy is not the ones who suffer, what do they care eh?

Free At Last!!

Free At Last! Martin Luther King Jr's words ran true and strong as the killer of the 3 civil rights workers was found guilty of manslaughter. It is always sad when a wrong is judged on earth, it is sadder that after fourty one years that the killer would finally be charged with man's rules. Ideally there should be no murder amongst men, and judgement should be saved for God in some christian virtues. However it is time when those who would use laws to enslave others would themselves find themselves enslaved to the same law.

Free At Last! I am sure many in the civil rights movement of old and new are rejoicing if only to see judgement fulfilled in this time when many of our civil rights are being trampled on. When many of the rights of black people in the United States are being withheld unconstitutionally but to use state legislation to take voting rights away from blacks yet again.

An old piece of legislation that was enacted to stomp on civil rights has been brought back thanks to George W Bush's Republican Party and their appointed judges who have decided that state legislation reigns supreme over the constitution. What a travesty, that means in some of the states that have never revoked slavery today can reinstate slavery if they so wish.

Free at Last. Well free before the cameras but enslaved to the system perhaps.

The Propoganda War?

The recent news releases about the latest Terror War talks about how cars are used to subsidize this terrotist infrastructure. This is like the recent historical accounts about how the CIA funded the Iran Contra affair, or the CIA sponsoring the opium war in Afghanistan against the Soviets of the 80's. The real story often gets forgotten, that is there is a reason why the terrorist are fighting a war of terror, oddly enough against states that oddly too sponsor their own brand of terror. The CIA is probably the world's most consistent terrorist organization, after all it was CIA operatives that trained Osama Bin Laden and Al Zarqarwi, and helped fine tune Saddam's genocidal army.

So really, perhaps all the USA has done is formalize it's own Terrorist War. Like W Bush's statements, "if you are not with us, then you are against us". That echoes the paranoid rantings of Stalin and his communist war on the west, oddly enough run in the same manner, where Soviet Bloc countries had their own no fly lists, their own propoganda radio broadcasts, that was one of the neat things of the cold war, the unique short wave radio shows which oddly enough illustrated real time events, each country telling the world about how it was breaking all the rules. Like the real time news casts of the Vietnam war and the atrocities, and concurrently the atrocities commited in soviet bloc satelites like in Africa or South America.

Now it seems neither country is too proud to be accusing each other of real crimes. Now we have the United States accusing muslims of being terrorist in a politically polite manner, or the Russians contemplating a rush back to communism.

A good example of the propoganda war was the hubbub over athritis medicine, out of the FDA's own admission that Pfizer had put out some pretty dangerous medication, that is if you don't want to die of heart attack, then after the USA election and the Republicans got back in Bush and his sponsors forced the FDA to recant about how dangerous Pfizer medication is not. What was all that about? Yet in countries throughout the world pharmicist were forced by the state to pull Pfizer medication off the shelves.

It seems the conglomerate of George W Bush Familia extends far and wide, after all according to Michael Moore the Bush's are all but Saudi puppets. Isn't it odd that the Saudi's would push the states to conduct a war of terror not on just muslims, but muslims who are not of the same faction of muslim or mohamadean philosophy, that predominately moderate or Sunni muslims are the target?

This is like the modern Spanish Inquisition, except the world is being held at ransom, at least when you have to travel internationally, or when you want to cash a cheque, or apply for medical health benefits, or heck even just breathing, it seems that the state is pondering putting CCTV monitors on all of the public streets.

So when will this encroachment on our civil liberties end?

Forgotten History?

Too often we think because some politician has made a wonderful speech or held a press conference attached with a lot of funding that we no longer have to worry about certain issues.

However, this could be no further from the truth, take for instance the erosion of civil liberties in the United States and Canada after the 9/11 tragedy. The terrorist got what they wanted, they wanted us to trample on our own rights, they fought us with our own weapon of democracy.

By protecting democracy we have destroyed democracy. We have installed and instilled new values, of detention without trial, and created concentration camps to send the most undesireable, usually people of color.

However what is also forgotten is that in the war on terror that we have created a new military technology, new computer programs and viruses that have destroyed people's laptops, banks have changed how they conduct business, even our social programs have stopped helping people.

In a way we think because we all believed Martin Luther King Jr. or that John F Kennedy was assasinated for protecting civil liberties, that the world is a better place. However even though the Berlin Wall came down, with Reagan's famous words, the new world order did not however include the freedom that we said we gave the communist.

Instead we took away our own freedom. You could almost say even though the cold war may have warmed up, we have created a new luke warm war on ourselves as people. So really have we forgotten our past, have we succombed to the problems that plagued our forefathers, that by forgetting history we forget who we are and instead commit the same mistakes?

Absurd?

Isn't it absurd how George W Bush comments on the Amnesty International Report of Guantanimo Bay being a concentration camp? Well if you look at what a concentration camp is, perhaps where is the absurdity? Guantimo Bay has the fences, the guards are the clock and enforced solitary confinement, and prisoners who disappear to 3rd countries to be tortured to death in places like Syria or Saudi Arabia.

It is sad what is happening, obviously the United Nations must step forward and condemn this war on humanity, this war on human rights, the war on common sense.

Land Reform needed

Canada is a horrible country when it comes to the issue of land. If you are business you are made to jump through a myriad of red tape and pay legal fees and you end up being a hostage of the system. It is no different if you are private homeowner who wants to build in municipalities or towns. It is a wonder that anyone anywhere can get land to build houses or businesses on.

Then the government wonders why only the richest get homes, or why there are so few businesses that strike out on new land.

I think the entire fee simple system needs to be looked at. It is legalized loansharking if you ask me, you literally have to buy the lease on the land, you don't really own the land, you lease it. So really no one in Canada really owns land. Even the natives are forced to sign land claims that accept this principle of leased land.

There are no land owners in Canada, except Government.

It is time that people were given the chance to own land and not be beholding for ninety years or whatever the lease says, to some local government that could at a whim decide to build and overpass or railway or decide your home is slated to house the next sewage lagoon or that they have sold it to Walmart. Honestly.

Generations of people who lived on the land before like farmers, who knew the system well enough and it was fair to some degree could rely on solid issues like a reliable bank that would not raise its rates, or have some megacity encroach and raise land taxes.

Then in Canada we wonder why are there so few farmers? Owning land is really a myth, cause you never really own it, you own the deed which is basically a lease, cause you pay land taxes and when you die sometimes the lease does not transfer and your children don't inherit the credit you've built up so they are forced in some parts of the country with starting all over again.

Land ownership though seems to favour large corporations that can access tax relief and government handouts in some cases allowing them to remain on the land as long as the right politician is in power.

It is no wonder in some parts of the world revolutions are fought and strange political ideals imposed around land, collectivism basically benefitted those who could afford to pay off the bureacrats, and republicans lost their newly acquired land to the bank if they had a bad year and couldn't pay the taxes or the interest rates.

That is why the world should look at a better system of providing land.

In those parts of the world that are lucky enough to provide social housing, like Canada, often the projects fall into dispair because the societies or boards set up go bankrupt paying the land taxes, so you get what we call the "projects", ghettos.

Or you get provincially funded social housing that goes bankrupt paying to both the municipal and provincial bodies, which seems a bit of a paradox.

Without land people cannot build housing, without adequate housing people cannot live prosperous meaningful lives. Society cannot benefit. only the rich could do that. Why can't we as a people change it so we as a people benefit? Why do only a few handful of rich people benefit at the expense of all?

We Shall Overcome

I remember hearing the static of the CBC Northern Quebec Shortwave radio those few words which opened my mind, a breath of fresh air, a notion of peace swept over me, validating what I felt the winter before having suffered bruises and a black eye and chipped tooth for defending Apex Hill's first black children, the Boatswains, Sheila and her younger sister. "We Shall Overcome" like the church hymn it all seemed to make sense and I understood what it meant to stand up for the rights of others and most of all for what you believe.

A lot of the children in Apex Hill were led by the white kids of school teachers and a lot of them knew from watching movies that black people were not equal. However up until that time all they had seen was Lionel the janitor, never had they had black children.

It was like electricity in the air, the first recess after the Boatswains first came to the school, you could see the gang of Inuk kids and their little white bully leader. First it began with rocks being thrown close to the girls, then like some old KKK movie, the children started running around and knocking the Boatswain girls down.

In the afternoon recess it continued and I couldn't help but think something was deeply wrong with this. After all the Boatswains hadn't done anything wrong, they were too new to school to have done anything.

The night I pondered over this and thought, I have to do something, someone needs to say something. I approached my second grade teacher but all she said was this is how black people are usually treated down south and to mind my own business it'll settle down of its own accord.

By this time a lot of kids had assembled at morning recess to watch and see if the Boatswains had returned, and they were literally thrown out by their teachers into the lions den. A lot of more Inuit kids started to join in the cat calls, "nigger go home" or "nigger go back to where you came from" or "you don't belong here".

In the afternoon the violent attacks on the Boatswains returned, I guess the kids had run out of insults to yell and I walked over and asked the other kids to stop. What have they done to you? I asked. Who are you to beat them up for no good reason?

Instead all I got in return was a beating. I got a bloody nose and the wind knocked out of me and they turned on the Boatswains. I could not stand for that in my heart and even though I knew it would hurt more I stood in front and stopped the boys from beating up the Boatswains. By this time it had caused a commotion and the principal came out and forced everyone apart and the Boatswain's dad was called down and he took the girls home.

I ended up getting fifteen straps with the horrible rubber ruler for intervening.

"We Shall Overcome" always makes me shudder sometimes, a pang in the pit of my stomach remembering the horrible racism in Apex Hill, Iqaluit's little suburb.

It is interesting that at that time in 1968, Frobisher Bay was partitioned, white people lived on one side of the fence and Inuit on the other. Inuit were not allowed on the white side which had restaurants, the army barracks and airport unless they had a pass or were a guest of white people.

There was a rickety International Harvestor red bus that served as rudimentary public transport and when whites rode on it Inuit had to ride in the back.

The next day at school I reminded those kids who beat me that we were no different than the blacks and that we were treated just like blacks by the white and if anything we should welcome the Boatswains.

After this the girls were no longer targeted by the gang of kids, except for the odd time when the white bully would try and beat up Sharon but she started to hit back knowing I was there to help if things got bad.

It was that summer when with a couple of other kids in blatant violation of the rules that I walked past the fence with my friends and we sang "we shall overcome" as we walked amongst the Butler type buildings where only whites lived. You should have seen the white ladies come out and yell "you shouldn't sing that" or "you should know your place" or "only whites allowed here you know that"....

We had the Canadian Forces jeep come to screaming halt in front of us to stop us from walking and we just walked around it and kept singing, it seems we had caught the white people off guard.

Word got around that these few Inuit were singing this song, and the fence came down as people on the base started to question whether the rules were really fair and all. I think that many whites in Frobisher Bay heard the rickety sound of the crackling short wave radio later when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream".

It is sad though that the west has not gone that far ahead, sure we got rid of segregation, but the artificial segregation, the polite attempt to sound politically correct, however does not hide the tremendous akwardness some white people display when people of any color behave as if they too were equal. I have seen it many a time.

I think though that the west has come a long way since 1968, and to this day I can still feel the bump on my head from when I stood up against the racism, the same racism that killed my hero Martin Luther King Jr. Do you have a dream, have you overcome?

Darfur Trial

It is interesting that the Darfur has finally received some deal of recognition, however today the murders are still going on. Interestingly the west has decided it is up to the Africans to resolve this. This sounds good, that is until the Africans cannot send troops to the areas affected because of lack of fuel, or supplies. Then when troops arrive you get stories of rape by the peacekeepers arising in some areas. Perhaps the west should instead that it demand to send troops if only to police the peace keepers and protect the most disadvantaged.

It is sad when those who are sent to help instead end up abusing those they are sent to save. Sadly no corner of the world is immune to this type of abuse, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity. That is why it is important that an outside organization such as the western countries at least try to send in policemen with peacekeepers much like Canada did for Haiti.

How can we catch all of the people who did the killings, perhaps all the west can do is arrest the military rulers who overlooked this debacle. However, the people that pulled the trigger and shot and raped all those people get to do it over and over again.

Isn't this a bit of a hypocrisy, much like the ruthless murders that went on with the Serbs demanding that they police their own, yet they went and still committed atrocities. I fear in Africa those who have the power and money to buy off the peacekeepers will do what they wish and continue to force people out of Darfur who are not considered as worthwhile.

The Almighty Canadian Tax Payer?

I am tired of encountering Canadians who think because they pay taxes that this gives them some inalienable right to think that they own my soul just because I am a native person. I don't know, did I miss something here? Did Canada pass a law which legalizes blatant racist comments and actions based on a stereotypical notion of because people pay taxes that they have bought other people who rely on handouts from these taxes? Did Canada legalize some sort of slavery? Are Canada's native people the new slaves of the twentieth century?

Or because supposedly that Canadians have the mistaken belief that Inuit get the same handouts as Indians that this means Inuit are not afforded the same rights as any Canadian?

Or the other belief that since Canadians paid for Nunavut that Inuit are the new slaves of Canada? When in fact, the only people to benefit from all that money that was supposed to go to Nunavut is the Indian Affairs Dept. that keeps most of it, and then in recent embarrasing reports neglects to hire any Inuit in Nunavut to any degree.

Or the other mistaken notion that since the Nunavut Government was created and that Inuit got jobs that Inuit are beholding to Canada?

The actual truth is in a recent report released by the Government of Nunavut very few Inuit work in the government. Furthermore most of the hires into the Government were largely from Newfoundland, because most of the Human Resources Dept heads in the various departments are from guess where?

Even if Inuit benefited from the Great Canadian Tax Payer, actually it is the Great Canadian Tax Payer who will reap 100 per cent of the revenues derived from mineral and gold and silver and diamond development, reaping many times over the money it pumps into Nunavut. In fact the amount of money Canada benefits from, means really that it is Canada that should be beholding to the Inuit.

The other myth is that Inuit get what the Indians get, so again Inuit should be beholding. In actual fact Inuit get none of the benefits that status and non-status Indians receive except for non-insured health benefits, which do not cover very much in the way of medical needs.

So what the hell is the average Canadian Tax Payer thinking, have they become the new Americans, ignorant as hell? Does that mean Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Quebec and the maritimes have their rights reduced as Canadians?

No they don't, in fact the recent agreement between Newfoundland and Ottawa only gives Newfoundland a guaranteed billion dollar handout, on top of Newfoundland keeping resource revenue from its offshore.

When you consider that Indians have received over the years in comparision to the resources and the revenue derived by Canadians from Indian lands it is but a small drop in the bucket. It is way smaller than the handouts Canadians give to themselves. For every dollar that goes to an Indian either on a reserve or off reserve, some ten Canadians receive ten dollars each. So really in a way, the handout to Indians really means a handout to Canadians. ISN"T that hypocritical?

What have Indians done to deserve this? Have they committed some atrocity to Canadians? Do they harbour such a horrible secret one that is so embarrasing that Canada or no one speaks about it, to deserve some five hundred years of persecution for this?

No. In fact Indians have helped Canadians with developing Canada. Indians have fought alongside Canadians to preserve peace and nationhood in all of Canada's wars, both on Canadian soil and overseas.

Inuit have never fought a war with Canadians. In fact Inuit have helped the new first Canadians to the north with surviving the harsh winters.

Have the Inuit done some horrible deed too to deserve such persecution? None that I know of.

How much money has Canada spent on developing the north? In comparision to say the development of Southern Quebec and Ontario, Canada has spent trillions of dollars over the years. In comparison the average money spent on northerners that actually is spent on the north and arrives up here by percentage is smaller.

By the way, there is a small thing called the Charter of Rights, and the United Nations Charter regarding the freedoms endeared to all citizens that Canada helped to write. In those documents they speak to inalienable rights granted to all people and special provisions to Indians and Inuit, to be free from persecution.

Yet every day across this land, somewhere you have some university youth asking the Indian why should they deserve and continue to get handouts? Isn't that an acknowledgement of "you don't have any rights". Honestly. The point I am trying to say is, sure there is the decades of injustice and the continuing injustice in things like the Indian Act which takes rights away from divorced Indian women, or the rights away from elected chiefs when it comes to accepting funds on behalf of the tribe.

But honestly, we don't do the same thing to premiers when we give them block funding for various programs or funding for equalization to poor provinces, we don't do that to the mayors of hamlets or cities when they receive funding, we don't do that to the Members of Parliaments or the Members of Legislative Assembly's or the Members of the national assembly, or the reeves of various county governments. Why is that?

So in a way, Canada has never abolished slavery when it comes to the rights of native people. Most of all it has placed Inuit with a status of practically being persona non grata. Only countries that practice genocide did that, but in modern day Canada Inuit are the invisible people.

Mind you, Governor General Clarkson and Prime Minister Martin will only gladly take credit for showing off an Inukshuk or have some CBC radio announcer come and do the throat singing thing, you know the Hollywood Eskimo stereotype.

In a way it is sad, that in this day and age, little white kids think it is perfectly okay to think that natives are nobodies cause hey "they don't pay taxes"....

Nothing could be further from the truth. Inuit have always paid taxes like anyone. We pay the GST, we don't get any tax breaks just because we are Inuit. If anything Canadians take advantage of us. They boost the price of gas, of air fares, of food, of everything, just because we live in the "north".

If there is any "almighty tax payer" it is the Inuk who has to live with artificially induced inflation, paying two times the price of what someone pays for down south for goods and services and then pays the GST on top of that double price markup. What costs a Canadian Tax Payer 30 cents with 7% GST on top, the same goods in the north costs the Inuk 90 cents with 7% GST, that's a 14% GST markup if you do the math correctly.

So really, who is the almighty Canadian Tax Payer then eh?

The Lies of Justice and Human Rights

Nunavut recently passed human rights legislation that was supposed to protect the rights of workers, the minority, the gay, religious freedom. However it is lame duck legislation, with no enforcement attached to it. All it has done is create a vacuum of disparity, an excuse for the government to abuse the very piece of legislation it stated was supposed to help.

In the same way the west passes treaties, signs declarations and joins the United Nations committees pretending to protect the rights of all. Canada is one of the worst offenders of human rights when it comes to ethnic minorities, specifically the Maher Arar case brings to light the willingness that the white people of Canada are willing to go to stomp on civil rights.

For the past few decades now since the United Nations was formed Canada has routinely come under attack from dictatorships, from the old Soviet Bloc, for its mistreatment of Indians and Inuit. What a shock to have countries that practice genocide and gross violations of human rights to paint Canada in this picture.

Oddly enough year after year the Canadian Government has acknowledged that the civil and human and legal rights of Canada's native people have been abused in all of the provinces and territories of Canada. It seems no corner of Canada is immune.

For a long time now Canada's native people have demanded equality, only to have political parties like the old Reform Party calling these requests as unreasonable and that Canada should stop recognizing aboriginal rights and to assimilate the native people into society. Basically stating the old Serbian value of if you take away their culture they don't exist.

These are the tricks of white people to paint what they don't like and white wash the lies. The lies of equality, of justice, of Christian Compassionate Conservative Values. How can these people eat their breakfast knowing that what they say are lies?

Yet even today there is atrocities being committed against people of different colors. It is shocking that the United States has painted Darfur as genocide but yet turns a blind eye to bombing Sunni Muslims. The United States has begun a selective assasination of innocent Sunni and labeling them as insurgents.

It did the same thing to Panamanians when they ousted Noriege, an entire Panama City suburb that had nothing to do with drug trafficking or was not even connect, some 14,000 Panamanian Indians were massacred with Apache Helicopters, and bombs.

In the west we routinely think that white people have finally acknowledge minority rights. But that is not the case. Far from it.

A good example is the unwillingness to acknowledge the crimes of white Serbians against dark skinned muslims. It seems if white people do the killing and they don't kill other white people it is done in the name of the Great White Way.

There is no secret to this, racial profiling does not only exist in the USA, or Canada. No matter where white people are in the world there are clear cut cases of racial profiling. The benefit of which goes towards the white.

Perhaps the Hague should start turning their eyes to national governments and arresting Prime Minister Blair, Prime Minister Martin, President Bush, President Chirac, basically it seems anyone with blue eyes and white skin think it is perfectly okay to stomp on others who are not of the same color.

Are Inuit Not Canadian Citizens- the Disenfranchised?

There is a horrible atrocity happening in Canada. While the world views Canada as a leader in human rights and treatment of disadvantaged people everywhere, at home it is leading a campaign of disenfranchising an entire race of people. When Sadam Hussein led his war on the Kurds the Americans provided the guidance system for the ammunition that was used to gas the Kurds. The CIA it seemed had the same view of the Kurds as Saddam had. Now it seems the wrong person is in jail, perhaps they should have thrown the CIA director and his operatives in jail instead of Sadam, after all it was American funding and American know-how and technology and military advisors that helped to gas those innocent Kurds. It is interesting how we selectively view history.

Back to issue, some years ago Inuit used to be considered as Indians. That is until 1952 when they were no longer considered as Indians but still considered as natives. In fact today Inuit are legally in limbo. The Canadian Government has a classification of other for Inuit much like they have for foreign nationals.

Today if you are an Inuit person who is sick, and you happen to lose your residency status in any of the provinces or territories, and are stuck in some province, no health care system in the world will cover you.

The same with any federal programs that are ear marked for rural Canada it is a virtual Catch-22. They won't fund Nunavut cause hey Indian Affairs has programs for native people and Inuit are native people, but none of the Indian Affairs funding funds any Inuit programs for rural areas, cause hey the Nunavut Government is supposed to do that. Only they won't give the Nunavut Government money cause Inuit are not Indians. Interesting.

This day there are less than one thousand Inuit in the five thousand strong Nunavut Government. So again Inuit are being given the back door.

Talk about disenfranchisement eh?

Thank You Canada!

I want to repeat what my father always taught me to say, "thank you Canada!" He echoed the sentiments of many Inuit who felt a great deal of gratitude for being saved from a life of nomads, a life of starvation and disease, a life of beholding to evil and good shamans. A magical life that was like no other in the world.

I was the first one in my family born in a house, my father was eternally grateful and he forecast that I would reap the benefits of all the modern life would bring in the future. It was like he was looking in a crystal ball when he said that.

It is interesting cause he lived a very traditional life as a youth, almost starving to death many times and almost dying of tuberculosis and polio.

Even though the police shot my father's dog team and he could no longer hunt in the winter, he was still grateful. When the house he built with his own hands was taken away by the federal government because they wanted to get the land, my father was still grateful to Canada.

However he always said never trust the government when they make promises. He said trust the Canadians to do the right thing in the end in spite of the government.

Many old people still echo the sentiments, they knew the hardships of living a traditional life of hardship and fighting death at almost every corner. I think in a way the white man coming to the north was like a lifting of the darkness, a light was introduced for many Inuit in more ways than one.

One of them was spirituality, for some they had suffered in some regions under shamans who were tremendously cruel in enforcing Inuit culture and tradition much like any other religeous zealots elsewhere. For Inuit the introduction of chrisitianity meant no more shaman supported murders, no more enforced marriages, that Inuit could marry for love instead of being forced to.

Also it also meant that with the introduction of medication that many Inuit lived, however a lot died from new diseases like TB, or polio, and the dogs suffered new diseases too as the white people brought their pets and strange new meats.

I think the dogs knew something was wrong with what was happening. The dogs always knew, so it is sad that white people who loved dogs as pets more than they value Inuit in some ways, would in the end shoot the very thing that Inuit loved, dogs for the sake of dogs.

The introduction of law also helped to create some new balance, however it was abused by some Inuit in more ways than one to get even with those they did not like. What else is new eh in Humanity? The new order always purges the old.

Thank you Canada for the broken promises of guaranteed housing. My father was the first victim of that promise. Our family was forced into social housing that we could not afford to pay the rent. In a way, it is sad, however my father had belief in the system of the white man.

The new clothes are not as warm as the old stinky caribou and seal skin. The skidoos break down and won't take you home when you are ill. The water is no longer fit to drink in some places, the animals have all manner of disease. Thank you Canada for you big hand outs that you always remind us of. Thank you for a health system that is more likely now to kill you than cure you in some cases if you are the one chosen to die. Do I sound bitter, my aunt passed away after being misdiagnosed by no more than 7 doctors who rotated and changed medication and basically tortured her to death.

Thank you Canada for the passive aggressive Canadians who hate you but smile and kill you with kindness. Thank you Canada.