One People... One Nation... One Leader

Hi Friends
Well the new parliament is about to resume, and the re-elected Prime Minister has re-Christened Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Canada..
Many in the Indigenous communities are wondering just what this may mean. The government's official response is: the new name makes the department more inclusive of the Innu and Metis as well as the Indians.( One major problem with this thinking is, the other two groups of Indigenous people do not have treaties with the crown, and thus do not have the same relationship that the Indians have.)

I too have my own misgivings over this latest turn by the Harper Conservative government.
Mr. Harper is a former reform party member, who had as it's stated agenda; "One Canada for all." The Reform were always anti-Indian, and the special relationship the First Nations have with the crown. They had actively campaigned on assimilation of all Indians, and an end to the treaties.
We are to become all equal, under his leadership, as to him the Indigenous people having a recognized and unique status here has never sat well. First Nations have been called everything from a drain on the public purse, to communists by the Reform. His right hand man, Tom Flanagan and the Calgary school, were and still are a great influences on him, and his policies.

Prime Minister Harper has never had the luxury of a majority rule before, and this has been a good thing. This is not the case now.
This election has been a game changer in a very frightening way. We here in Canada have lost our three party system, and have been reduced to a two party governance model. The media/corporate Canada has handed a majority to the Harpercons and as the dust settles we are all left to see just how this will change Canada. (Nor am I the only one in my community seeing dark days ahead for the First Nations people.)

I am not a conservative supporter, nor am I a fan of Mr. Harper, and his ideologies. Even with the steading hand of the opposition he was very much one to push his own agenda, and I see no chance of him ever becoming a moderate in his leadership style. That the press would not present an unbiased accounting, has made the entire process of an election laughable at best and has cast them as co-conspirators at worst. I condemn them for the huge dis-service they have done to the voters, and the country as a whole. This is what happens when the robber barons take charge of the press and they lose their freedoms.

As a well known German once said. Ein volk. Ein reich. Ein fuhrer!
At least that is how some of us in the Indigenous community are seeing things. Lets hope we are wrong!

Regards Debra