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The Conservative Party has brought up Federal Health Minister, beholden to Prime Minister Harper for her Cabinet post, to attack the decision of Chief Theresa Spence to continue her public hunger strike.

Quoting from The National Post:

[link to news.nationalpost.com]

"Meanwhile, the federal health minister is calling on Spence to end the strike and meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan.

"Leona Aglukkaq, who is Inuk, says aboriginal policy in Canada is Duncan’s job and therefore he’s the one who should be meeting with the Northern Ontario chief..."

My comment:

That's a good one. Chief Spence has had several contacts with John Duncan year after year, and she says he can never answer a question without looking around to get a clue from his aides, and that he doesn't have the authority to ever make a decision on his own anyway.

The only people who are going to be impressed with this statement are the brain dead.

Also, the Inuk are not "First Nations" in Canada, according to Wikipedia.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]


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Another First Nations toady pipes up.

The same National Post story quotes Shane Gottfriedson, Tk’emlups Indian Band Chief, from British Columbia, "who said Friday that Spence’s strike is both honourable and noble, but he believes her point has been made."

"He says Spence is fasting for many issues that are important to aboriginals, but most of those issues will not be resolved soon, and he believes the chief’s health is more important....

"...Gottfriedson says the next step is to begin a dialogue with the federal government, and he says it shouldn’t take a meeting with the prime minister to get those talks underway..."

Who is Gottfriedson?

According to the website of Shuswap Nation Tribal Council...

[link to shuswapnation.org]

Shane Gottfriedson is an iron worker by trade with a Business Certification from the University of British Columbia and is currently serving his ninth year as Chief of the Tk’emlups Indian Band. He resides in Kamloops with his family.

-- So, he is not raising his family on a reserve. Nice.