Trudeau Makes Farce of Reconciliation Policy

Vincent J. Curtis

25 Feb 2020


The blockades were an example of what happens when Marxism-Anarchism-Nihilism takes hold of a cause.  The cause is “reconciliation” but that is just a particularized form of the general cause of progressivism.  The protest leaders knew their mark, and exploited the Prime Minister’s vanity and other weaknesses brilliantly.  Justin will never recover from the humiliation he suffered at the hands of his favorite identity group.

The media did the country no favors by acting as stenographers and rapt audiences for the protesters, challenging none of their pretentions.

Hereditary Indian chiefs have no legal authority.  Indian lands are not their private property, nor do they hold an underlying sovereignty on them.  The land belongs to the people of the band, and their will is expressed through the elected band council.  What went practically unreported was that the Wetsuwet’en band council supported the pipeline, and eight of thirteen hereditary chiefs also supported it.  A disgruntled five did not, and were the ones who sparked the blockades.

So, where does reconciliation come in?  By law and by democracy, the Wetsuwet’en people were “reconciled” to the pipeline.  Reconciliation and agreement does not, and as a practical matter cannot, involve unanimity.  A faction of a minority drum up a few dozen protesters and suddenly the whole policy of reconciliation is at stake. The Canadian National rail network is closed down – by the company not wanting bad publicity.

Ignorance is power.  Practically no one in the media reported how thinly manned the blockades were, and that a fair number of out of town white people were involved in some of them, such as the one west of Edmonton that was cleared by polite Alberta oil field workers.

By showing weakness in the face of a challenge to the rule of law, Trudeau put the policy of reconciliation at risk.  What is the point of offering reconciliation when nothing is ever good enough?  Aboriginals everywhere are looked upon differently today.  The disappointment of some was an internal matter for aboriginals to solve among themselves, but they stood back and did nothing, not even condemn the protesters.

The greatest failing of all in this episode was the collapse of order.  Before peace, and before good government, there must be order, and Trudeau failed to enforce order, that is, the rule of law.  National commerce was disrupted because five guys, who refused reconciliation, took advantage of the MAN undercurrent in Canada, exploited the fear of political correctness, and with a few dozen people established cobwebs of blockades at maybe three places at one time across all of Canada.

A sorry tale of weakness and folly that can only be cured at the next election.
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