Video - Ezra Levant " The truth about Aboriginal sovereignty."

Barry Cooper, political science professor at the University of Calgary, busts myths on the nation to nation rhetoric heard from Idle No More leaders.HT: SunNewsNetwork.

Video - When you have a man's job to do......GET A WOMAN! Edmonton woman drives through Idle No More blockade.

Video - "Politicization of police" - Michael Coren and Lorrie Goldstein discuss the politicization of policing during Idle No More protests.

Video - "To Serve and Protect?" - Police chiefs ask government for advice about Idle No More blockades.

HT: SunNews. TORONTO - Under fire from the judiciary and media, Ontario's police chiefs are turning to the provincial government for advice on how to proceed with enforcement of court orders to break up Idle No More protests.
In a letter dated Jan. 9, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police president Steve Tanner asks Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur for advice.
Some First Nations chiefs have declared Wednesday a national day of action with blockades planned in several locations across Ontario, including the Ambassador Bridge, North America's busiest border crossing.

"I am writing to ask you, as the minister responsible for community safety in the province of Ontario, to advise what the ministry's expectations and position is with respect to the appropriate police response in these types of protests," Tanner writes.

In the letter, Tanner says the priority of police at Idle No More protests is to "keep the peace."
"Our police leaders and the men and women on the front lines have been working hard at doing just that, despite what one might perceive from media reports."

Tanner also said previous court rulings and oversight recommendations place the priority on "peacekeeping" and give chiefs of police "discretionary powers" when it comes to enforcing court orders concerning public safety.
The same day Tanner penned the letter to Meilleur, Premier Dalton McGuinty told media the province wouldn't give direction to police on how to handle Idle No More protests. "In our democracy, we do not direct the police, that would be inappropriate," he said. "They make their own operational decisions on the ground. We'll leave that in their capable hands."

Video - Ezra Levant: "Leading the Call for Lawlessness."

Video - IDLE NO MORE DIVIDE - Ernie Crey, advisor to the Sto:lo Tribal Council in BC.

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Video - Ezra Levant: "Natives as frontmen: Unscrupulous US groups are using Aboriginals for their environmental attacks."

EzraLevant - HT: Sun News Last week was the busiest of Theresa Spence's life. She's the chief of the Attawapiskat Indian reserve who has been on a "hunger strike."

Her week started with the release of a damning financial audit by Deloitte, which found that millions of dollars spent from her band finances had no paper trail. That kind of bombshell keeps you busy.
And then there was the big meeting of all the Indian chiefs in town, where she was a big topic of discussion.
And of course the week ended on a high note. Although she refused to meet with the prime minister, she did permit the governor general to meet with her.
All in all, a pretty exciting week for a woman who usually putters around a remote town of 1,500 people.
Which makes a press release that she sent out in the middle of last week amazing.

In the middle of all that, the chief sent out a press release about ... the Alberta oilsands?

In the middle of the most intense week of her life, which was about the prime minister, the governor general, her Indian band, the audit, her hunger strike and her, her, her, she put out a detailed press release condemning the oilsands? Attawapiskat is in northern Ontario. It's 1,900 km from the oilsands. It's the same distance from Attawapiskat to Nashville, Tenn.
Spence has never said anything about the oilsands in public. Her only possible connection is that her Indian band's stock portfolio contains a million dollars of oilsands shares.

She surely didn't write the release. So who did?Hmmmm......And is there an 'Iranian Connection'?

Video - "Enough is enough" John Robson joins Brian Lilley to discuss the confusing demands of Chief Spence.

Hmmmm.....Concern that First Nations will be ‘used as pawns’ as former chief to meet Iranian leaders.

1. ter·ror·ism

   /ˈterəˌrizəm/

   Noun The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

Video - Audit finds there's no paper trail for millions of dollars in Attawapiskat spending.

OTTAWA - An independent firm hired by the federal government to comb through Attawapiskat's financials found there's no paper trail for millions of dollars in band spending. The highly anticipated audit by Deloitte, ordered by the government last year during the remote northern Ontario reserve's housing crisis, was leaked to several media organizations, including QMI Agency, Monday morning.
The feds had vowed to formally release the report in early 2013.
Among its criticisms, audit documents show much of the approximately $104 million provided to the reserve between April 1, 2005 and November 31, 2011, wasn't thoroughly documented.
Deloitte said more than 400 out of 505 financial transactions lacked proper documentation.
The firm sent a letter to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence on Aug. 28 to outline some of the issues identified by the review.
"An average of 81% of files did not have adequate supporting documents and over 60% had no documentation of the reason for payment," Deloitte partner Serge Desroches wrote. "There is no evidence of due diligence in the use of public funds, including the use of funds for housing. In our opinion, having 80% of selected transactions lacking any or proper supporting documentation is inappropriate for any recipient of public funds."
Desroches maintained the audit was "not designed to discover weakeness or ineffectiveness" in the accounting systems at Attawapiskat.Read the full story here, more here.

Ezra Levant: "Chief Spence knew what she was doing pulling her dieting stunt in Ottawa."

Attawapiskat While Chief Theresa Spence is on her hunger strike in Ottawa, her home, seen here, is being cared for by a girl who lives in the community.Photo by SPENCER WYNN/TORONTO STAR.

Ezra Levant: "Chief Spence knew what she was doing pulling her dieting stunt in Ottawa."EzraLevant.Journalists are skeptical of politicians, unless those politicians are called Indian chiefs. Then reporters turn into stenographers, or even cheerleaders.
Take a politician named Theresa Spence. She’s been the toast of the Media Party for the past 26 days, the length of time she’s been on a hunger strike. Which is amazing, because even Gandhi never lasted more than 21 days on his hunger strikes. The IRA hunger strikers looked like skeletons by 26 days, and started dying weeks later. Not Spence — she’s still Rubenesque, walking around, doing interviews, all with her trademark double chin.
That’s not a comment on her attractiveness. It’s a comment on the Media Party’s love affair with the Idle No More protests. Reporters have simply stopped asking critical questions of politicians because they’re Indian.Last year, when Toronto’s conservative mayor, Rob Ford, announced he was going on a diet, the media mocked him, demanded to know his weight every day, and the Toronto Star proudly uploaded a video, taken on a cellphone, catching Ford going into a KFC.
Spence has admitted she’s snacking, even detailing her menu (fish soup and moose soup) but that hasn’t stopped the Media Party from reporting her hunger strike as not only true, but putting the saint precariously close to death.
The CBC actually quoted a medical doctor — who had never examined her — saying she was in grave danger. That’s not just journalistic malpractice, it’s questionable medical ethics, too.
Idle No More is just an Aboriginal reboot of Occupy Wall Street. It has the same vague demands, summarized as “give us more free stuff.” It has the same low-level criminality — Occupy illegally squatted in parks and was heavy into drug use and public sex, while Idle No More prefers blockades of railroads. And they have the same supporters and organizers: Canada’s left-wing labour unions. And, of course, the Media Party.
Spence is a master media manipulator; she knew better than to do her dieting stunt up in Attawapiskat, where it hit -33 C this week, and was accessible only by airplane. She flew to Ottawa and pitched a teepee for the benefit of the bored Parliamentary Press Gallery. She also stayed in a hotel, but that was never shown on camera — it contradicted the narrative of a chief willing to make every sacrifice for her people.
That’s what a hunger strike is: A public declaration that you are willing to commit suicide in slow motion to achieve a higher purpose. What was Spence’s purpose? She demanded a meeting — a week long — with the prime minister and governor general. And, to Stephen Harper’s discredit, he caved in on Friday and will meet with First Nations leaders, including Spence, on Jan. 11.
There are more than600 Indian chiefs in Canada, the average reserve having about 1,000 people. Will everyone be able to command the PM’s appearance? Can others do that, too? But, again, for what? Why would Spence die for a meeting? What’s on her agenda?It couldn’t possibly be for more money — her Attawapiskat Indian band has received $90 million from Harper so far, and has just 1,500 people there. It’s just 300 homes.

Do the math: The Attawapiskat band received $34 million in 2011. And the local diamond mine spent $51 million in town. That’s $85 million, for 300 families. That’s $280,000 per family. Tax free.So how come so many in Attawapiskat live in leaky, cold shacks?

Not the chief of course; she has a sturdy, well-heated house and drives an Escalade. Her boyfriend is the band manager — his contract is for $850 a day, plus expenses. Why does the band have $8.9 million in the stock market, in shares like Google and Pepsi and Exxon, but not enough money to fix some leaks? Why are there 21 politicans on the payroll of a tiny town? Why did Spence once bill the town $8,000 a month to manage the daycare?
Those are questions reporters might ask white politicians. But lucky for Spence, she’s Indian, so they don’t.

Video - Ezra Levant with proof that Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's boyfriend gets paid $850/day in band money... plus office space, plus travel...

Video - Ezra Levant - WHAT'S NEXT FOR IDLE NO MORE?

Video - Ezra Levant shares some inconvenient facts about Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, and her "hunger strike".

Canada - 'Idle No More' founders distance themselves from Native chiefs.

Canada - 'Idle No More' founders distance themselves from Native chiefs.(CC).

"Of course there are chiefs and people who show up at an event, get their picture taken and then they go back behind a desk,"

In a matter of weeks, a series of teach-ins on a small Saskatchewan reserve took on a life of their own - becoming a nationwide aboriginal protest movement.
But now it appears the rapidly growing Idle No More movement is experiencing its first real growing pains. On Monday, the founders of Idle No More issued a statement distancing themselves from Native chiefs who claim to be acting on behalf of the campaign.

"The Chiefs have called for action and anyone who chooses can join with them, however this is not part of the Idle No More movement as the vision of this grassroots movement does not coincide with the visions of the Leadership," said the statement, released on Idle No More's official website.

"While we appreciate the individual support we have received from chiefs and councilors, we have been given a clear mandate. to work outside of the systems of government and that is what we will continue to do."
The statement also says the Idle No More founders received word that aboriginal "leadership" had been "calling for action" in the name of the campaign, and that they claimed to have met with the representatives of the group who support this call. "We would like to state that this is FALSE," the statement reads.
Idle No More has been inextricably linked to a hunger strike led by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. The northern Ontario chief hasn't eaten in three weeks and says she'll starve herself to death if Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't agree to negotiate better living conditions for the nation's aboriginal people. The fast has garnered support among all of Canada's opposition parties. It has inspired blockades on highways throughout the country and ongoing disruptions to railroads in southern Ontario-including delays to over 2,000 passengers bound for Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa Sunday.
But the founders of Idle No More made it clear that while they recognize Spence's support and sacrifice, the movement is about all of Canada's aboriginal people not just its chiefs. Spence's hunger strike began after rallies, teach-ins and a national day of action organized on Dec. 10.
"Chief Spence decided she would fast on that day as part of her action to support the Idle No More movement. It is very important this history is known," the statement said. "We are very greatful for Theresa Spence's honourable and courageous support, we also need to remember the face of Idle No More is also the grassroots people."
Melissa Mollen Dupuis, who co-founded Idle No More's Quebec branch, said she's seen aboriginal leaders try to co-opt the movement because of its growing popularity within First Nations communities.
"Of course there are chiefs and people who show up at an event, get their picture taken and then they go back behind a desk," said Mollen Dupuis, a 34-year-old Innu artist. "But we know this is about all of us and not about them..Also it's worth noting that plenty of chiefs travel from far and wide just to give us support. We have our own internal governing problems on reserves but this is larger than any of that."
"(Idle no More) seems to be a rejection of aboriginal leadership, a rejection of local chiefs and chiefs on the national stage," said Daniel Salée, a professor at Concordia Univsersity's School of Community and Public Affairs. "People seem to feel as though their leaders aren't working in their best interest or that they simply aren't getting the job done.
"In some cases, communities have been negotiating land claims with the government for decades without any progress. People are fed up with the conventional way of doing things." Hmmmm......"Speaks with Forked tongue?"Read the full story here.