they're trying to steal every last little bit of what we do have left, to the point of trying to become us. it's like using our skins as belts and boots all over again, but metaphorically. it's awful, disgusting, and totally dishonest.
i must also add that harper is tied in with big oil, which is his main concern. he worked at imperial oil before becoming the head of the conservative party, then pm; he's also hired tom flanagan, who is infamous about his views on indigenous rights, indigenous land title, etc. (advocates making indigenous people assimilate totally into the corporation of canada), and other people that were involved with the same premier of ontario who said "get those f**king indians out of the park", which resulted in dudley george getting murdered. sufficed to say, these people are not nice people.
brazeau strikes me as either "doesn't know what he's doing", and being used by these people, or "knows exactly, and thinks he'll profit from the association", or just doesn't care. during the residential school apology, he called himself "algonquin canadian", which is just totally ignorant of his history and culture, to say such a thing.
