Honest Injun

Vincent J. Curtis

3 June 22

RE: Prime Minister signs historic land claims settlement.  By Bill Graveland.  The Canadian Press.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 3 June 22.

“Canada needs to stop using the word reconciliation.  You will never reconcile.  You will never make it whole,“ said Chief Ouray Crowfoot as he accepted a cheque for $1.3 billion.  “This land claim - $1,3 billion, that’s a lot of money – it will never make it whole of what it was before.”

Justin Trudeau has put Canada on an endless reconciliation treadmill.  No matter how much money and how many apologies, it will never be enough for reconciliation.  Meanwhile, Trudeau publically assuages his guilty liberal conscience with other people’s money.

It doesn’t matter that Trudeau said “We’re gathered today to right a wrong from the past.” And to refer to the agreement as a “settlement.”    To which Crowfoot replied that the settlement “doesn’t make up for past wrongs.”

So, if the ‘settlement’ settled nothing, and achieved no reconciliation, what was the $1.3 billion given for?  To give Trudeau a favorable headline on an issue he conjured to divide Canadians and to shame us of our past.

Give credit to Chief Crowfoot for his honesty.  He’ll gladly take fool’s money for as long as they can be bamboozled out of it.  And Canadians will remain fools until they figure out the game being played, at their expense, of settlements that settle nothing, of apologies that aren’t accepted, and say “enough!”

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When I was a kid, the expression "honest injun!" meant the same as "I swear it's true!"