Canada’s Toxic Spill Of Anti-Native Racism - OpEd Eurasia Review

20.10.12

Canada’s Toxic Spill Of Anti-Native Racism - OpEd Eurasia Review: By Eric Walberg

News that should warm the heart of any supporter of native rights and critic of Stephen Harper — that native activists will finally get a voice at OPEC (however weak) — has been greeted by the silence of the liberal lambs. Where are voices of reason? Where is the opposition in Canada’s so-called democracy?

The only public response to former Roseau River chief Terrance Nelson’s efforts to help his people — Canada’s First Nation (as opposed to the settlers who stole the land and who export and destroy our resources) — is to accuse him of treason, of consorting with the enemy, the enemy being a nation which has never threatened Canada, the US or any other nation with aggression. A nation which is instead the victim of harsh sanctions and unrelenting subversion by Canada and its ‘friends’.