Aboriginals, Kakfwi, Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, PM's Profligacy with Your Tax $$$ -- & -- McKenna

Update:

Turn on your radio; something is going on in Washington -- an unidentified plane flying over the capital . . .


PM too occupied to focus on U.S., McKenna says -- Is this the first salvo in replacing Paul Martin? -- by McKenna?




Ottawa strikes deal with NWT native groups -- Social program funding: Key to getting Mackenzie Valley pipeline underway Grant robertson and Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post, May 11, 05

[. . . . The] federal government agreed yesterday to help fund millions of dollars worth of Northern programs -- a step that could allow the massive MacKenzie Valley pipeline to move forward.

Anne McLellan, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Joe Handley, Northwest Territories Premier, said a preliminary deal was struck that will see Ottawa help fund roads, schools, health clinics and other social projects.

[. . . . ] Mr. Kakfwi said Imperial has offered one-time payments to each of the three major communities affected by the pipeline -- the Gwi'chn, Sahtu and Deh Cho.

[. . . . ] The demands are similar to benefits that aboriginal communities in the Yukon would receive under the Northern Pipeline Act if a rival project, the Alaska natural gas pipeline, goes ahead.

Search: Stephen Kakfwi , $40-million a year in , The only people who are not

By the way, considering the problems with gas sniffing, alcohol abuse, the rise in drug peddling in the Labrador Innu region and Indian / Native Affairs Minister Scott's laxity in not addressing the drug problem by sending the RCMP in, why would anyone expect this government to do any better in the pipeline area? Hope springs eternal?


Background items:

Canada's Aboriginals: Another Idea Frost Hits the Rhubarb, Feb. 22-27, 2004

Search for these headings:

1. Just Say No to Race-based Tax Exemptions Feb. 24, 04

2. May I have a word with you? -- First Nations Feb. 24, 04

3. Victimology 101 Feb. 21, 04

4. This System is Not Working: What is the Solution? Feb. 14, 04 -- Reserves rack up $300 million in deficits, native leaders blame underfunding, Sue Bailey, CP, Feb. 12


This Really Gets My Blood Boiling - My Commentary! -- on Kakfwi a rough diamond by Peter Foster News Junkie Canada, Friday, September 12, 2003

Not too long ago I read that Enbridge had offered to share the pipeline construction with Trans Canada Pipeline, the company that had acquired rights to build it 25 years ago, but the latter had said no.

Paul Martin will pay any amount of your tax $$$ to hang on even by the skin of his teeth and your money; for that reason alone--for his inability to say no if it contributes to his grasp on power, however tenuous--he should be sent out to pasture on one of his ships -- maybe to a retirement villa in the Barbados.

Good soldier Annie announced the preliminary deal. Given the Liberals' penchant for re-announcing their profligacy, ad infinitum, it is undoubtedly only the first of the announcements about this deal. I suspect that Kakfwi should read the fine print anyway. Find out what the "friends of" will be administering.

Watch for "dithering, desperate, dangerous" Paul Martin to sputter: "if 'scary' Stephen Harper becomes PM, all deals are off" -- so you'd better vote Liberal or the sky will fall -- and Paul's deals will implode.

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