Lauzon in Quebec is a pretty good political analyst. Far Left. Poops on all the MSM parties. Lauzon derided the King's visit for the confusion of colonialism and our "independence".
We are economically LOCKED in with the US and we are a British colony.
Plus, to hear the Monarch who stole this land from the First Nations, thanking FNs for the "unceded land" is a the biggest fuking piece of trash I've ever heard.
I've reached a point of fatigue with FN issues. I'm done. Give BC to the FNs, as BC is truly unceded stolen land, and may "status" be extinguished in Canada. Let's be done with this.
The photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney seated lower than King Charles III reminds me of scenes in the children's TV show Romper Room. The show's host always had a higher chair (she was an adult) compared to the children in their shorter chairs. (See: https://www.tvparty.com/bgifs25/romper-britain-big.jpg)
Ironic that King Charles III and Mark Carney are 100% into net-zero, yet arrange for His Majesty to fly to Ottawa on May 26th and spend just a little over 27 hours in Ottawa before flying back to London. I guess the takeaway is "do what I say, not what I do." The speech seemed tone deaf to the fracturing of Canadian society. Separatist sentiment in the prairies is real and nothing the Liberal government is doing is going to stop it from festering.
Great episode, and yes the French government can spin the Macron slap in the face all it wants. It is what it is: an unwelcome slap, and not part of some comedy routine or prelude to a romantic evening.
Just read on twitter that PM Carney says we have to Earn our freedom. That’s all we need to know about how the future of Canada is going to be under his leadership.
Quebec has spoken. The National Assembly voted to sever ties with the monarchy. But what about Alberta? Would a separate Alberta want to be part of the British Commonwealth? Perhaps they should hold a vote on Alberta’s future with the monarchy before they consider separation.
Never mind the “certain powers” whom have been operating their puppets from the shadows for five centuries are now exposed for the evil force they are.
Obviously they are desperate. See Ukraine and Israel. Still few people understand what is going on in either case. Great Britain and the United States are proxies for Jewish money power. What would it take to convince enough people to recognize the presence of Netanyahu in the Congress of the United States of America was not a TV program, but a real world indicator of Jewish power in the world?
King Charles is a puppet! The English Crown was captured in the late 1600’s. Many people still deny the power of money or, if they do not, in their mouths the power of money has become a cliché.
“Well of course” they’ll intone, as though that power is obvious to them! This they’ll say while smiling patronizingly, yet seem unable to truly grasp the how, why, when, where, what and whom — of the way the powerful — wield money as a weapon against their own interests!
And even more tragically they are unable, or refuse to have such discussions since almost every one of us has been rendered subservient to the societal structures’ wherein we all obtain our relative status and our incomes.
The so called left have been completely seduced by the opportunity to appear relevant! What is progressivism but a variety of religious enthusiasm with no evidence for anything beneficial except for those whom have been granted positions of false importance in promulgating such drivel.
Whilst say, King Charles is mouthing various platitudes — which read as progressive — the royal corporation — a variety of holding company — holds a vast portfolio of shares in corporations which operate without any sort of progressive restraint throughout the world where no restraints exist.
Money power corrupts the leaders of countries where such corporations ply their trade! These corporations are backed up by every institutional means of protecting those corporate interests tax payers money, and Federal Reserve money provides.
In other words the United Kingdom and the United States are corrupted a priori before their corrupting influences can and do wield their corrupting power in countries that are made to seem in need of some sort of superior guidance.
In Canada of course where the governing processes are corrupted in ways the so called educated do not, or will not corroborate — the means of disseminating to the public any facts not already spun in advance by the corruption of Canada’s elites — is both owned by foreign interests or controlled by the Canadian government — the CBC because it is the formal means of control of information funded by taxpayers — and by media owned by mostly American interests presently subsidized by the Canadian government.
The recent outcome of the “election” was overwhelmingly supported by the CBC and pretty much by all the media properties controlled by foreign interests.
Canada is not communist nor capitalist — it is a satrapy run by rootless foreign interests which of necessity occupy buildings in countries throughout the world where the rootless representatives gather to calculate the means of implementing their power over the people of the world.
Of course the instruments of control vary. Force is used where force can be used without universal sanction. Citizens in Canada are never subjected to the truth for the simple reasons already alluded to — the means of disseminating the truth are controlled!
Financialization is the means of controlling the economy used in the United States i.e. Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the political means of control used by Congress to implement the means of Global control at the source.
Violence, insurrection, suppression of information, assassination, drug cartel support, bribery, vote rigging, selective killing of those who dissent are all selectively employed depending on the circumstances. Often all of them are used in convert!
A simple cartoon illustraties the situation: the CIA approaches a “man of the people” and in a conversation outlines a Hobson’s choice — you can get rich and remain powerful, if you adjust your policies as required, or you and your family will most likely be killed, if you don’t!
The vilification by the globalist powers operating in the West, of other countries — now finally emerging after 500 years of such control as outside interests used to wield has come to an end. The emerging chaos in the West is the evidence.
There are limits to any sort of power! Seldom do the powerful give up their power willingly. They do not ever negotiate with emerging powers. What looked in the past like negotiations was in practice — our way or the highway or war, death and dismemberment.
But as is evident countervailing power of the emergent order is resisting the old order. The recent ‘election’ of Mark Carney, a puppet of the old order interests, and his deployment of a senior puppet, King Charles, whom of course exists within an institutional structure of an earlier order effectively defunct since 1700 is telling.
The monarchy has not wielded anything like real power for centuries. It functions like a ‘beard’, i.e. the way the female wife of a homosexual does — by providing a gloss of ritual continuity.
Often the “beard” wields power but not institutional power! Their power is wielded socially. Their power is the power of an insider, a spy, an intriguer, perhaps even an apparent confident of a man who imagines the “beard” will cover for his own subversive interests.
Of course these sorts of social machinations serve to capture the interests of the consumers of such drivel — the consumers may even find this sort of distraction on the front pages of the media they consume — like of course the presence of the King of England in the Canadian parliament.
Carney is a canny sod in my estimation. Though in reality he is merely another puppet controlled by a regime of interests now countervailed by an emergent order the West’s money order may not be able to contain; distractions aside.
Russia, China, Iran, and even India represent an emergent order — more or less unassailable by the declining power of the Jewish project nor desperate to maintain.
Russia, China, Iran, India have no need of even more of the absolutely debased currency that the Federal Reserve has conjured into existence since 1913, now almost worthless compared to the buying power a dollar held in 1910.
Carney represents the institutions of the Globalist order. The Federal Reserve, the Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (the IMF), NATO, the UN and myriad other means of influencing the global economy — not excluding the diminished power of Hollywood to colour public opinion.
None of the above is novel or unknown by elites around the world but it does not appear to be conclusively understood by the public, those interests betray!
Else why did anybody vote for the Liberal Party? Clearly Canadians’ were frightened by the propaganda wielded by another puppet, Trump, who was obviously instructed to make ridiculous threats Canadians’ were primed to accept as valid.
Money power aside, Canadians are victims of propaganda, and of a poverty of an education without the necessary content meaningful for a proper resistance against such obvious intent!
Of course, can one really expect the population to self-educate. Canadians are the offspring of hat tippers. Any authority gradually makes war on the people it presumes to protect.
Canadians’ are brainwashed! Given the propensity to buy the means of their being brainwashed; their numerous TV’s — often even in the bathrooms, and to believe that what they see is all there is to see, to believe, and, to react to, it is no wonder the country has fallen into discontent and decline.
Gadzooks! Bring on the clowns. King Charles, President Trump, the Obamas’, Prime Minister Carney, The Trudeau’s’, Macron, Starmer, etc.
Agreed, King Charles is part of the global elitist agenda led by Mark Carney. What has been unfolding in Canada over the last 10 years is not politics. It is not reform. It is a hostile takeover by global forces using one of the most sophisticated and destructive plans ever devised to collapse a free society from within. The plan is referred to as the ClowardPivenStrategy.
Love these midweek get-togethers, Trish. Same as you. The queen navigated her role perfectly but it was evident for years that Charles was, in supposedly trying to 'find his own way' Globalist-leaning, European-leaning, and eager to put his two-cents worth in on issues Monarchy is supposed to not comment openly on. I said for years that, after the queen, I was out on the Monarchy. I also said that I expected Canada to embrace the Monarchy with a passion never before seen when Charles became king - because he IS a Globalist, and Canada embraced Globalism and now we have the Globalist PM.
I do not know why Canadians call it the Liberal Party of Canada, there is nothing Liberal about them, they are the "Communist Party of Canada", it is not complicated, once you give it some Critical thinking, I am starting to question Canadians intellect, I was assuming it was at least 92 on the brain scale, as the saying goes, if you assume things you are making a ass out you and me, guilty as charged.
Maybe "the Illiberal Party of Canada" : Illiberal as in obdurate, dogmatic, inflexible, intolerant ("should we tolerate these people?"), parochial, stubborn, reactionary, insular, partisan, and one-sided (excluding all other views). The Illiberal Party of Canada is imperious and our new Prime Minister has cautioned that "freedom is something that is earned." Citizens will find themselves in a national detention until the PM thinks we've earned our freedom. Chilling.
At least the illiberal Liberal Party has the right colour to match its political ideology. Why is it that when Carney's lips move, I hear Xi's voice? Carney is one hell of a ventriloquist dummy!
Because the Xi thing has his hand up Carney's ass, Carney is loving it like the homo sexual he is, sue me if I am wrong. a picture is worth a 1000 words.
Remember Joyce Davidson? Fired from CBC decades ago for saying Canadians didn't really care much about the Queen's visit. It was true then, although I agree that Queen Elizabeth trod her tricky path with some grace, unlike most of her family.
I join in commending you for dumping the monarchy.
Lest we forget, Charles was the keynote speaker in the launch of the great reset in 2020 at the world economic forum. He wants The Firm to regain its past glory in making the world spin... to return us normals to adoring peasants for reaping their material gain.
Carney is a wannabe aristocrat, merely an entitled narcissistic pawn. His interview with his CBC fanboy after the throne speech was truly disturbing when he framed it as a declaration of sovereignty (eh?) and that Canadians must earn our freedom. (WHAAAT?) Sounds too much like net zero social credit scores are in the works... as they have in China. If we're obedient little people and don't step out of line or speak up we'll be allowed to live in our prefab cubicles built by his cronies. It's all sickening.
Love these informal video messages. I add "stay sane" to "stay critical" at the close. You're helping us to maintain balance. Thank you.
Well said, Shelagh! And thank you, Trish, for the mid-week vid which I look forward to. I usually putz around the kitchen as I listen.
I concur with all the midweek sentiments shared re King (koff) Charles. I was surprised that you did not mention the land acknowledgement. It had me reeling - oh, that plummy nasal voice intoning: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded land of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people..." Unceded?! Wait...what? What does this mean? In real time?
I, like many, sigh deeply when, after I have paid my hard-earned bucks for a (not inexpensive) concert or a play, I must endure the ubiquitous theatre spokesperson trotting out on stage and announcing deeply and importantly: "Ladies and gentlemen; let us acknowledge..." I am sorry, dear theatre person, I don't care a whit. I am not interested in polticks at the moment; I am here to be entertained, so please sierra tango foxtrot uniform. I have heard of people standing up and walking out, but by the time I gather my purse, coat and cane, and struggle out of my seat, the land acknowledgement is over, so I look like an addled old lady (which I guess I am). Perhaps just stand up and turn around. I dunno. It's a play / concert, folks; just take our money and leave us be.
But. what really fussed me was the money spent (read tax dollars from the sweat of hard-working everyday Canucks) to fly the Royals over, have the 27-car motorcade, extra security, ye olde open carriage, handsome, gleaming trotting horsies, fancy food, silver shovels ... for what? To read a speech? Plant a tree? Are these people connected with reality?
Oh the places I could take them. Having the opportunity to help out with the helping services opens one's eyes to abject poverty in our nation. People heating their houses with an open oven in the dead of winter. Children doing their homework in winter coats. toques and mittens because the thermostat is set low. Folks living in bungalows partitioned to rooms which barely hold a bed and a dresser - with a shared kitchen, bathroom - and a larcenous landlord charging $500 per. People who cry when you arrive with a bag of groceries because there was nothing for the kids' school lunches the next day. Too many folks live horrid, pinched lives and worry about the next rent payment, boots for kids, gas for the car - and these yahoos waltz over here and meet up with guvmint folks, and they all feel teddibly important as they p*** away money for a plummy speech. Don't get me started. Oh, wait, I already did.
Love your comment, Ruth. The land acknowledgements are truly bizarre. And ubiquitous. RCMP reports on two missing children in NS began with such a statement. As if historical land grabs pertained to the case at hand. And Charles' family being the primary grabbers, doling out provinces to their kin and kind makes his confessional, but without the resolution part, essentially saying "We took your land but you're not getting it back." What's the point?
The excessive pomp is gluttonous and obscene in the reality we see every day and know too well. Off with their empty heads! Figuratively, of course...
Grotesque Grand Guignol. All of it.
Lauzon in Quebec is a pretty good political analyst. Far Left. Poops on all the MSM parties. Lauzon derided the King's visit for the confusion of colonialism and our "independence".
We are economically LOCKED in with the US and we are a British colony.
Plus, to hear the Monarch who stole this land from the First Nations, thanking FNs for the "unceded land" is a the biggest fuking piece of trash I've ever heard.
I've reached a point of fatigue with FN issues. I'm done. Give BC to the FNs, as BC is truly unceded stolen land, and may "status" be extinguished in Canada. Let's be done with this.
Princesses are sex CHATTEL
The Queen was a Nazi
Welcome to FUCK THE MONARCHY!
Question dear Trish:
Why do your podcasts show up on my Apple Podcast app on the phone, before I can find them here on Substack!
I just listened to the excellent Carpay conversation on my iphone Podcast app, but it's not here!
really do like your commentary.. yes Macron,Starmer,Trudeau.etc sexual weirdos. Fairly obvious homosexuals everywhere,in leadership positions.
The photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney seated lower than King Charles III reminds me of scenes in the children's TV show Romper Room. The show's host always had a higher chair (she was an adult) compared to the children in their shorter chairs. (See: https://www.tvparty.com/bgifs25/romper-britain-big.jpg)
Ironic that King Charles III and Mark Carney are 100% into net-zero, yet arrange for His Majesty to fly to Ottawa on May 26th and spend just a little over 27 hours in Ottawa before flying back to London. I guess the takeaway is "do what I say, not what I do." The speech seemed tone deaf to the fracturing of Canadian society. Separatist sentiment in the prairies is real and nothing the Liberal government is doing is going to stop it from festering.
Great episode, and yes the French government can spin the Macron slap in the face all it wants. It is what it is: an unwelcome slap, and not part of some comedy routine or prelude to a romantic evening.
Just read on twitter that PM Carney says we have to Earn our freedom. That’s all we need to know about how the future of Canada is going to be under his leadership.
That was a great take , I got the same sense of King Charles and the take on the speech. Thank you 😊
You hit the points bang on, Trish. What's coming frightens me for Canada.
Quebec has spoken. The National Assembly voted to sever ties with the monarchy. But what about Alberta? Would a separate Alberta want to be part of the British Commonwealth? Perhaps they should hold a vote on Alberta’s future with the monarchy before they consider separation.
Never mind the “certain powers” whom have been operating their puppets from the shadows for five centuries are now exposed for the evil force they are.
Obviously they are desperate. See Ukraine and Israel. Still few people understand what is going on in either case. Great Britain and the United States are proxies for Jewish money power. What would it take to convince enough people to recognize the presence of Netanyahu in the Congress of the United States of America was not a TV program, but a real world indicator of Jewish power in the world?
King Charles is a puppet! The English Crown was captured in the late 1600’s. Many people still deny the power of money or, if they do not, in their mouths the power of money has become a cliché.
“Well of course” they’ll intone, as though that power is obvious to them! This they’ll say while smiling patronizingly, yet seem unable to truly grasp the how, why, when, where, what and whom — of the way the powerful — wield money as a weapon against their own interests!
And even more tragically they are unable, or refuse to have such discussions since almost every one of us has been rendered subservient to the societal structures’ wherein we all obtain our relative status and our incomes.
The so called left have been completely seduced by the opportunity to appear relevant! What is progressivism but a variety of religious enthusiasm with no evidence for anything beneficial except for those whom have been granted positions of false importance in promulgating such drivel.
Whilst say, King Charles is mouthing various platitudes — which read as progressive — the royal corporation — a variety of holding company — holds a vast portfolio of shares in corporations which operate without any sort of progressive restraint throughout the world where no restraints exist.
Money power corrupts the leaders of countries where such corporations ply their trade! These corporations are backed up by every institutional means of protecting those corporate interests tax payers money, and Federal Reserve money provides.
In other words the United Kingdom and the United States are corrupted a priori before their corrupting influences can and do wield their corrupting power in countries that are made to seem in need of some sort of superior guidance.
In Canada of course where the governing processes are corrupted in ways the so called educated do not, or will not corroborate — the means of disseminating to the public any facts not already spun in advance by the corruption of Canada’s elites — is both owned by foreign interests or controlled by the Canadian government — the CBC because it is the formal means of control of information funded by taxpayers — and by media owned by mostly American interests presently subsidized by the Canadian government.
The recent outcome of the “election” was overwhelmingly supported by the CBC and pretty much by all the media properties controlled by foreign interests.
Canada is not communist nor capitalist — it is a satrapy run by rootless foreign interests which of necessity occupy buildings in countries throughout the world where the rootless representatives gather to calculate the means of implementing their power over the people of the world.
Of course the instruments of control vary. Force is used where force can be used without universal sanction. Citizens in Canada are never subjected to the truth for the simple reasons already alluded to — the means of disseminating the truth are controlled!
Financialization is the means of controlling the economy used in the United States i.e. Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the political means of control used by Congress to implement the means of Global control at the source.
Violence, insurrection, suppression of information, assassination, drug cartel support, bribery, vote rigging, selective killing of those who dissent are all selectively employed depending on the circumstances. Often all of them are used in convert!
A simple cartoon illustraties the situation: the CIA approaches a “man of the people” and in a conversation outlines a Hobson’s choice — you can get rich and remain powerful, if you adjust your policies as required, or you and your family will most likely be killed, if you don’t!
The vilification by the globalist powers operating in the West, of other countries — now finally emerging after 500 years of such control as outside interests used to wield has come to an end. The emerging chaos in the West is the evidence.
There are limits to any sort of power! Seldom do the powerful give up their power willingly. They do not ever negotiate with emerging powers. What looked in the past like negotiations was in practice — our way or the highway or war, death and dismemberment.
But as is evident countervailing power of the emergent order is resisting the old order. The recent ‘election’ of Mark Carney, a puppet of the old order interests, and his deployment of a senior puppet, King Charles, whom of course exists within an institutional structure of an earlier order effectively defunct since 1700 is telling.
The monarchy has not wielded anything like real power for centuries. It functions like a ‘beard’, i.e. the way the female wife of a homosexual does — by providing a gloss of ritual continuity.
Often the “beard” wields power but not institutional power! Their power is wielded socially. Their power is the power of an insider, a spy, an intriguer, perhaps even an apparent confident of a man who imagines the “beard” will cover for his own subversive interests.
Of course these sorts of social machinations serve to capture the interests of the consumers of such drivel — the consumers may even find this sort of distraction on the front pages of the media they consume — like of course the presence of the King of England in the Canadian parliament.
Carney is a canny sod in my estimation. Though in reality he is merely another puppet controlled by a regime of interests now countervailed by an emergent order the West’s money order may not be able to contain; distractions aside.
Russia, China, Iran, and even India represent an emergent order — more or less unassailable by the declining power of the Jewish project nor desperate to maintain.
Russia, China, Iran, India have no need of even more of the absolutely debased currency that the Federal Reserve has conjured into existence since 1913, now almost worthless compared to the buying power a dollar held in 1910.
Carney represents the institutions of the Globalist order. The Federal Reserve, the Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (the IMF), NATO, the UN and myriad other means of influencing the global economy — not excluding the diminished power of Hollywood to colour public opinion.
None of the above is novel or unknown by elites around the world but it does not appear to be conclusively understood by the public, those interests betray!
Else why did anybody vote for the Liberal Party? Clearly Canadians’ were frightened by the propaganda wielded by another puppet, Trump, who was obviously instructed to make ridiculous threats Canadians’ were primed to accept as valid.
Money power aside, Canadians are victims of propaganda, and of a poverty of an education without the necessary content meaningful for a proper resistance against such obvious intent!
Of course, can one really expect the population to self-educate. Canadians are the offspring of hat tippers. Any authority gradually makes war on the people it presumes to protect.
Canadians’ are brainwashed! Given the propensity to buy the means of their being brainwashed; their numerous TV’s — often even in the bathrooms, and to believe that what they see is all there is to see, to believe, and, to react to, it is no wonder the country has fallen into discontent and decline.
Gadzooks! Bring on the clowns. King Charles, President Trump, the Obamas’, Prime Minister Carney, The Trudeau’s’, Macron, Starmer, etc.
Agreed, King Charles is part of the global elitist agenda led by Mark Carney. What has been unfolding in Canada over the last 10 years is not politics. It is not reform. It is a hostile takeover by global forces using one of the most sophisticated and destructive plans ever devised to collapse a free society from within. The plan is referred to as the ClowardPivenStrategy.
Love these midweek get-togethers, Trish. Same as you. The queen navigated her role perfectly but it was evident for years that Charles was, in supposedly trying to 'find his own way' Globalist-leaning, European-leaning, and eager to put his two-cents worth in on issues Monarchy is supposed to not comment openly on. I said for years that, after the queen, I was out on the Monarchy. I also said that I expected Canada to embrace the Monarchy with a passion never before seen when Charles became king - because he IS a Globalist, and Canada embraced Globalism and now we have the Globalist PM.
Will be doing the Midweek Digest going forward. The downside....make up at 5:00 AM. LOL. Our burden....:)
I do not know why Canadians call it the Liberal Party of Canada, there is nothing Liberal about them, they are the "Communist Party of Canada", it is not complicated, once you give it some Critical thinking, I am starting to question Canadians intellect, I was assuming it was at least 92 on the brain scale, as the saying goes, if you assume things you are making a ass out you and me, guilty as charged.
Maybe "the Illiberal Party of Canada" : Illiberal as in obdurate, dogmatic, inflexible, intolerant ("should we tolerate these people?"), parochial, stubborn, reactionary, insular, partisan, and one-sided (excluding all other views). The Illiberal Party of Canada is imperious and our new Prime Minister has cautioned that "freedom is something that is earned." Citizens will find themselves in a national detention until the PM thinks we've earned our freedom. Chilling.
I know you don't mean all Canadians. And are the Democrats actually democratic? Nah.....no more than the Liberals are liberal.
At least the illiberal Liberal Party has the right colour to match its political ideology. Why is it that when Carney's lips move, I hear Xi's voice? Carney is one hell of a ventriloquist dummy!
Because the Xi thing has his hand up Carney's ass, Carney is loving it like the homo sexual he is, sue me if I am wrong. a picture is worth a 1000 words.
Carney definitely speaks French with a Chinese accent. Any minute, Xi is going to unzip that Carney-lookalike skin suit and reveal himself.
If it only was that simple., when did Carney learn to speak French with a Chinese accent, I thought Carney only spoke bullshit.
Same thing.
Remember Joyce Davidson? Fired from CBC decades ago for saying Canadians didn't really care much about the Queen's visit. It was true then, although I agree that Queen Elizabeth trod her tricky path with some grace, unlike most of her family.
I join in commending you for dumping the monarchy.
Lest we forget, Charles was the keynote speaker in the launch of the great reset in 2020 at the world economic forum. He wants The Firm to regain its past glory in making the world spin... to return us normals to adoring peasants for reaping their material gain.
Carney is a wannabe aristocrat, merely an entitled narcissistic pawn. His interview with his CBC fanboy after the throne speech was truly disturbing when he framed it as a declaration of sovereignty (eh?) and that Canadians must earn our freedom. (WHAAAT?) Sounds too much like net zero social credit scores are in the works... as they have in China. If we're obedient little people and don't step out of line or speak up we'll be allowed to live in our prefab cubicles built by his cronies. It's all sickening.
Love these informal video messages. I add "stay sane" to "stay critical" at the close. You're helping us to maintain balance. Thank you.
Well said, Shelagh! And thank you, Trish, for the mid-week vid which I look forward to. I usually putz around the kitchen as I listen.
I concur with all the midweek sentiments shared re King (koff) Charles. I was surprised that you did not mention the land acknowledgement. It had me reeling - oh, that plummy nasal voice intoning: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded land of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people..." Unceded?! Wait...what? What does this mean? In real time?
I, like many, sigh deeply when, after I have paid my hard-earned bucks for a (not inexpensive) concert or a play, I must endure the ubiquitous theatre spokesperson trotting out on stage and announcing deeply and importantly: "Ladies and gentlemen; let us acknowledge..." I am sorry, dear theatre person, I don't care a whit. I am not interested in polticks at the moment; I am here to be entertained, so please sierra tango foxtrot uniform. I have heard of people standing up and walking out, but by the time I gather my purse, coat and cane, and struggle out of my seat, the land acknowledgement is over, so I look like an addled old lady (which I guess I am). Perhaps just stand up and turn around. I dunno. It's a play / concert, folks; just take our money and leave us be.
But. what really fussed me was the money spent (read tax dollars from the sweat of hard-working everyday Canucks) to fly the Royals over, have the 27-car motorcade, extra security, ye olde open carriage, handsome, gleaming trotting horsies, fancy food, silver shovels ... for what? To read a speech? Plant a tree? Are these people connected with reality?
Oh the places I could take them. Having the opportunity to help out with the helping services opens one's eyes to abject poverty in our nation. People heating their houses with an open oven in the dead of winter. Children doing their homework in winter coats. toques and mittens because the thermostat is set low. Folks living in bungalows partitioned to rooms which barely hold a bed and a dresser - with a shared kitchen, bathroom - and a larcenous landlord charging $500 per. People who cry when you arrive with a bag of groceries because there was nothing for the kids' school lunches the next day. Too many folks live horrid, pinched lives and worry about the next rent payment, boots for kids, gas for the car - and these yahoos waltz over here and meet up with guvmint folks, and they all feel teddibly important as they p*** away money for a plummy speech. Don't get me started. Oh, wait, I already did.
Love your comment, Ruth. The land acknowledgements are truly bizarre. And ubiquitous. RCMP reports on two missing children in NS began with such a statement. As if historical land grabs pertained to the case at hand. And Charles' family being the primary grabbers, doling out provinces to their kin and kind makes his confessional, but without the resolution part, essentially saying "We took your land but you're not getting it back." What's the point?
The excessive pomp is gluttonous and obscene in the reality we see every day and know too well. Off with their empty heads! Figuratively, of course...
His wife's family has an estate that resembles Downtown Abbey. He does yearn for a Lordship but won't get it.
Ps ITS KIND SAUSAGE FINGERS AND KING CAMILLA AKA MICHAEL & PRESSY OBARMA….