Trudeau, bumping along in the saddle
Remember when Trudeau tried to imitate Putin by holding forth in a "Town Hall Meeting"? Canadians peppered him with embarrassing questions which he dodged, weaved and eventually looked like a dope when he made his famous "personhood" comment.
Now, he's trying to imitate Putin's penchant for horseback riding. At least he didn't try to do it bare chested. My opinion is that his private public opinion polls tell him that Canadians admire Putin. But instead of trying to forge a respectful and mutually beneficial diplomatic relationship with Russia, Trudeau is trying to steal Putin's thunder.
I don't think it will work, especially when Trudeau combines his Putinesque optics with his obsession to apologize [on behalf of all Canadians] for every perceived historical wrong committed on Canadian soil.
Please read the report copied in its entirety from today's "National Post" and I will have more comments to follow:
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CHILKO LAKE, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to the Tsilhqot’in community for the hanging of six chiefs more than 150 years ago in an emotional ceremony Friday that one chief says brought an end to a “difficult journey.”
Speaking to hundreds of the First Nation’s members in British Columbia’s central Interior, Trudeau said the colonial officials of the day erred in inviting the chiefs for peacekeeping talks where they were instead arrested, tried and hanged. He said the chiefs are fully exonerated without any wrongdoing because they were acting as one independent nation engaged in war with another when they attacked a road crew that intruded on their territory.
“Those are mistakes that our government profoundly regrets and is determined to set right. The treatment of the Tsilhqot’in chiefs represents a betrayal of trust, an injustice that you have carried for more than 150 years,” Trudeau said of the incident during the so-called Chilcotin War.
Trudeau said the federal government continues to work with the tribal council to develop a governance agreement by spring 2019.
Chief Joe Alphonse, tribal chairman of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, said the apology was significant not only because it was the first time that a prime minister visited title lands, but because it was made directly to community members.
Trudeau made a “statement of exoneration” in the House of Commons in March and agreed to visit the title lands then.
“For me as chief last March it was a very emotional journey, a spiritual one. It took its toll physically, mentally. So I’ve been through that, I’ve gone through that,” Alphonse said.
“Today it’s about our membership, and our membership all these years not believing that a prime minister would acknowledge that. So it’s a powerful day.”
Trudeau rode into the valley on a black horse, symbolizing the one the historic chiefs rode into what they believed were peace talks. The day also included a smudging ceremony and Trudeau was given a buckskin jacket matching the iconic one his father Pierre Trudeau wore.
The Tsilhqot’in have long disputed the government’s authority to execute the six chiefs as criminals, describing the confrontation as an altercation between warring nations.
When Trudeau read the statement in the Commons, members of Parliament broke into applause, prompting the Tsilhqot’in chiefs to hold up eagle feathers in salute. Trudeau told MPs the chiefs acted in accordance with their laws and traditions and that they are well regarded as heroes of their people.
The deadly confrontation began when a white road-building crew entered Tsilhqot’in territory without permission in 1864.
Five chiefs were hanged when they travelled to the supposed peace talks at the invitation of government representatives. A sixth chief was executed the following year in New Westminster.
The British Columbia government apologized for the executions in 1993 and installed a commemorative plaque at the site of the hangings."
Greencrow Says: Quite a pivotal moment in Canadian history, that Kangaroo Court and criminal hangings of Indigenous Leaders by the Canadian Government. Too bad I never learned about it in all the years I studied Canadian History in school and university. Doubt whether many other Canadians have heard about it either. It's, no doubt, just one of dozens of similar cases that were covered up and buried [literally] shortly after they occurred. It's just like they're now trying to do with 9/11 and other false flag atrocities these days. Anyone know why Canada and other countries are supporting Saudi Arabia's attack on the indigenous Yemenis? What future Prime Minister will apologize for that down the road? Or, who will apologize to the Afghanis for NATO's 17-year war against them? For...what? For being falsely accused of harbouring CIA asset, the already deceased Osama bin Laden?! Who's going to apologize to the people of Rossiya for the Canadian government sending armaments to the Kiev Junta--that are now being used to bomb citizens of Lugansk and Donetsk in their beds?
Instead of apologizing on behalf of all Canadians [when no one is to blame we're all to blame] for these ancient political decisions....why doesn't Trudeau name some names? What individuals in the Canadian government of the day and/or elite/corporate class and/or British banksters were responsible for making the order to arrest, try and hang the Chiefs? I would like to know what individual steps were taken, by who and why. I would like to know, in particular, who was paying the road workers who trespassed onto indigenous property. Is that too much to ask?
And, finally, as my mother used to say...talk is cheap...especially apologies...when you're still doing the same thing, over and over even to the present day!
Trudeau, quit apologizing...and thereby laying the blame for the actions of past colonialists on all ordinary Canadians...in the end, it's not going to save your sorry @$$.
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