In this episode, Tanya talks about the ongoing extortion campaign against Indigenous people in British Columbia, and why we need to speak out against it. She also talks about how we can support the Indigenous people of BC, and how they need our help.
00:00:00.000So the question is, where is the money going? And by the way, when Tanya speaking of Aaron, Aaron Point is one of the indigenous men who came on the documentary, extremely brave man. He's big boy. And he's not afraid of anything because I said to him, are you afraid? He goes, Dallas, I'm not afraid of anything, but I can't live this way anymore. And I'm not going to keep my mouth shut even a moment longer.
00:00:24.820And this man deserves a medal because he's standing up for a lot of women on his reserve and other people who feel completely downtrodden, sad, defeated, that their life is futile, that why bother? They go to complain about something and they find that they're fired from their job at the office. These people are really needing us to speak to this.
00:00:47.120And so I just want to encourage people. This isn't about being mean to indigenous people. It's like saying, you have to stop this. They're really good people and they need our support and help. And they're living a really crummy situation down there unless you're the chief.
00:01:02.500Yeah. And they need to recognize our help, right? That we're attacking what's going on. We're not attacking them. We're calling out corruption and we're exposing it. And so the whole purpose of what they want to do is they're using them as pawns, as if we're attacking the pawns, rather than attacking those that are behind this extortion campaign.
00:01:28.360And Aaron is also calling out another development in the UBC area. He's doing FOIs and they're coming after him, trying to find him with bylaw infractions. And it's just so crazy. They're so vicious. And we got to just keep saying they got nothing on their side.
00:01:51.040And let's not forget, we also, the indigenous population represents less than 4% of the province. So the other 96% have to be led with leadership and governance as well. But even of that 4%, how much of that 0.0002% are probably benefiting from this largesse as well as these other big groups?