Quote:
Originally Posted by Slava
I know its pointless, but I'll try again. Idle No More and Chief Spence are not synonymous. Idle No More began about a month before her hunger strike. In fact if you look into INM you will see that there are quite a few "rank and file" natives who don't want the Chiefs speaking for them as they're not pleased with how things have operated. That's a generalization, but I think in the article I posted a few pages back there are comments to that effect as well.
Its a shame. We all know that the reserve situation isn't good, but rather than consider meaningful discussions or an attempt at progress the entire effort gets cast aside because of a suspiciously timed audit release.
|
I've been on some Idle no more pages that talk a lot about supporting Spence, I've been on some that don't mention her, I saw one that in a nice way said hey we're not with her.
The suspiciously timed audit results wasn't so suspiciously timed, at the time in the news story of Spence booting the government administrator and agreeing to this audit that the government and Deloitte both indicated that the audit would be released at the start of the new year.
I think the suspicious timing is when Spence decided to do her hunger strike, it could be just as well that she knew she was screwed and was trying in a clumsy way to deflect criticism.