Harper's Indian Meet-and-Greet: More of the Same Abusive Relationship
Submitted on January 23, 2012
Normally, the mainstream media jumps all over stories...that show dysfunction or crisis in Indigenous communities. It lets editorialist's gnash their teeth and wring their hands, eventually coming to the conclusion that the situation...is just too complicated to do anything, ending in a ritualistic throwing up of hands. This is just the reaction that governments depend on. It means they can go back to ignoring Indigenous communities, when they’re not shoving them around to make way for oil, logging, mining or other corporate interests, or just because Ottawa can and does shove them around.
