Jane Taber is a gossip columnist masquerading as a reporter, as you can see in this clip. She has to read her questions and even calls Brazeau a deadbeat Dad without knowing the real facts. Pay attention to her smug attitude. Who fed her the questions she was reading? Who gave her what she obviously thought was the "dirt" on the new Senator Brazeau?
Full interview here!
Typical CTV, attack any Conservative, for any reason. In this case Jane pretends to not know who might be spreading all those nasty rumours about Senator Brazeau. Well, Senator Brazeau was very careful not to say who it might be, so let me enlighten Jane. How about Phil Fontaine and the AFN? Why would Fontaine be against an aboriginal in the Senate? Maybe he thought it should have been him that was appointed to the Senate, but he hitched himself to the Liberals a long time ago and if you read the report I linked to, you can see it's all about getting more money from taxpayers than it is about helping his own people.
This article might have ticked him off as well.
The problem is that the AFN retains a view of righteous entitlement to interfere and intervene. Government after government, both Conservative and Liberal, have made repeated and earnest attempts to bring about redress for various past wrongs to First Nations peoples. But every time, it seems, the AFN finds flaws, fault and fuel for dismissal of such efforts.
This time, the blame that the AFN seems so ready to frequently lay at the feet of government rests with itself. The AFN has much to explain -- to its citizens, to its families and to Canadians who fund it.
At the heart of the matter, it must ask itself one fundamental question: How long can it, in good conscience, carry on the charade that it actually cares about grassroots First Nations peoples?
Then we have this report:
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples was originally known as the Native Council of Canada before reorganizing in recent years. Its leadership says the group represents Metis and off-reserve status and non-status Indians.
Therein lies the controversy, as many groups say the Congress doesn't represent them.
"The allegations are still hanging in the air that the Congress declared itself to represent people that don't feel they are being represented by the Congress," said Paul Barnsley, a journalist who has covered aboriginal politics for years.
Barnsley said those he spoke to following the appointment viewed it as a double-barrelled move.
"People are wondering how much this is a recognition that the Congress supported Stephen Harper's party when they first became government and how much of it is a snub at the other national chief," said Barnsley, referring to Assembly Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.
"There is some rivalry there and it is a very interesting political scenario.
And this article is interesting.
“Canada’s Aboriginal community should be celebrating the appointment of one of their own to the Senate of Canada. It’s very sad that certain individuals choose instead to let petty jealousies overtake reality. It is time to put all this behind us and move on to the important business of helping our peoples.
For really biased reporting, you need to go to a free lance reporter by the name of Cuthand. It shows the great divide in the First Nation's nation.
Brazeau has a history of speaking out against the elected chiefs and calling for more accountability. His solution to the "Indian problem" is to throw out the baby with the bathwater. He wants to see an end to the Indian Act and the reserve system and he wants to set up about 60 Indian communities across Canada. This is just not in the cards and has not been seriously supported by any other First Nations leaders.
So, if some First Nation people are against Brazeau, it must now be okay for CTV to be against his appointment as well. Or might it be that both Duffy and Brazeau were okay until they revealed themselves as conservatives.
Look how the lefties slammed Emerson a Liberal turned semi-conservative (mainly because he cared about the softwood lumber issue), but loved Belinda, a fake conservative turned Liberal Cabinet Minister by betrayal. These lefties can suck and blow at the same time leaving their voters unfulfilled and wondering why they don't feel better about themselves.
