dear Dustin Waterhole

[the_siobhan]

Your new government will have a record number of MPs who are indigenous or of indigenous descent.

All will be forgiven if you appoint one of them to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and give them some actual authority.

signed,
A Second-Class Citizen with opinions on who are the Third-Class Citizens around here

Comments

[greylock]

Canada has issues?

Signed, a country that had a Prime Monster for Indig Affairs, because... he was also the PM for Women.

[the_siobhan]

Oh Gods yesh.

[greylock]

As me, well, your country and mine ditched Harper and Abbott within weeks.

That's pretty awesome. \m/

To be fair, the replacements suck, but they suck less.

[greylock]

I'm curious (because) did he live up to expectations?

[the_siobhan]

His cabinet looks pretty good, actually. He appointed a white woman to the post, but she's good and experienced and the Assembly of First Nations is happy with her.

He did appoint an aboriginal woman as Justice Minister, which is actually a big deal because over 1000 aboriginal women have gone missing and the Harper government flat-out refused to launch an investigation.

[greylock]

I've been trying to find out: how many of his cabinet had held shadow positions before? The best info I can easily find suggests there are a few newbies in there, which is always interesting, and suggests a few veterans were sidelined, I assume for reasons.

I also had no idea, until today, that there were such large pockets of Sikhism in Canada (although, to be fair, I live near a Sikh temple, and hardly see any of them around, and had no idea until last weekend that apparently they share my love for bagpipes).