Those who belong...

Hi Friends
Well well well, is Ottawa up to their old tricks, once again?
It would look like it to me at least, but you decide. It seems "Poppa John" Duncan, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non Status Indians, and no doubt soon, "butt-in-ski" for Unknown and Unstated Paternity (brothers and sisters left off the latest Indian Act amendment) has decided to take a closer look at what constitutes a Metis person.
read about it here!!

They (Ottawa) say no, but I have a funny feeling about this one. Like the first Minster of Indian affairs, ( Duncan Campbell Scott) this Duncan has, it would seem, the same old agenda.

"I want to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not think as a matter of fact, that the country ought to continuously protect a class of people who are able to stand alone.
Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic, and there is no Indian question, and no Indian Department, that is the whole object of this bill."
Duncan Campbell Scott (assimilationist) and coincidently head of the Department of Indian Affairs:1913-1932

So now are we to never trust any one with the name of Duncan, weather it be a first name or last? It's looking like that to me.

Maybe the Honorable John Duncan could make a new class of Indigenous citizen. The "apples" and the first so named members could be Shelly Glover, and Senator Patrick Brazeau...just a suggestion.
Being so engaged, then maybe, just maybe, he and the rest of the government bureaucrats would stop the meddling into the Indigenous peoples rights to name their own citizens.

Regards Debra