Mark Slapinski

00:00:00.000 Art Carney cannot go a single day without making a fool of himself. 0.95

00:00:04.100 Today, he tried to use Indigenous people and their struggles as a prop, 0.96

00:00:07.780 and he ended up embarrassing himself and the rest of Canada.

00:00:11.200 Let's take a look at that.

00:00:12.820 Miigwetch. 0.95

00:00:16.220 Charlotte.

00:00:18.580 Ripa.

00:00:20.780 The survivors here, the survivors across the land.

00:00:24.800 Miigwetch, thank you.

00:00:25.680 We're gathered here today on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation.

00:00:39.380 Your Excellency, the Governor General, colleagues, esteemed guests.

00:00:46.340 On this day, both solemn and hopeful, allow me to begin by painting a picture that illustrates our journey.

00:00:58.600 At the beginning of my mandate as Prime Minister, I had an Indigenous painting installed outside the Cabinet Room behind us in the West Block of Parliament.

00:01:11.800 It's called A Brief History of the Northwest Coast Design by Luke Parnell.

00:01:19.020 And it depicts a painful part of our shared history through 11 wooden panels with images inspired by the design on the bent wood boxes and feast bowls of the Nishka and the Haida.

00:01:33.760 The first few of, the first few of those panels burst with vibrant colors.

00:01:44.140 And then, with contact, those colors fade.

00:01:48.360 Until the middle ones become smothered in white paint, a culture literally whitewashed. 0.62

00:01:55.460 I really hate how left-wing politicians do this.

00:01:58.520 These left-wing politicians, they use Indigenous people as props, and then they throw them away and forget about them the second they're done with them.

00:02:06.280 Mark Carney is just like Justin Trudeau, and just like Justin Trudeau's father.

00:02:10.280 These people do not care about Indigenous people.

00:02:12.900 The final panels begin to resemble the original glory, with image, though marked by what has been endured, that are renewed and resurgent.

00:02:26.520 This painting captures the pain of suppression and assimilation, and the possibility of reconciliation and renewal.

00:02:36.780 That possibility rests on truth.

00:02:44.520 Truth is the foundation of justice.

00:02:47.300 Dude, don't lecture me about truth.

00:02:49.620 You literally lied on your PhD.

00:02:52.040 You lied about your ability to deal with Donald Trump.

00:02:54.700 I wouldn't trust you for directions on a one-way street.

00:02:58.660 And the truth is, for more than a century, this country ran residential schools.

00:03:03.060 Over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children were taken from their families and their communities, torn from their languages, their cultures, and their identities.

00:03:17.080 These residential schools were the architecture of a cancelled culture. 0.97

00:03:28.280 It's not a distant chapter, but a lasting truth.

00:03:33.080 Residential schools are a truth that survivors have carried with them when others would not.

00:03:39.360 A truth recounted more than 6,500 times before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, so we could no longer say that we did not know.

00:03:52.460 On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honor survivors and the children, the children who never returned home.

00:04:04.240 We reflect on the devastating legacy of the residential school system.

00:04:11.040 And we, as a government, and as a people, we match remembrance with responsibility.

00:04:19.700 The responsibility of having, of progressing in reconciliation, the responsibility of creating the conditions for renewal and uplifting.

00:04:36.040 We are moving forward on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls for action.

00:04:42.760 We're advancing the calls for justice from the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.

00:04:51.400 And we are implementing the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in partnership with indigenous peoples.

00:04:59.780 I know we have a long way to go, but we are building together in health, in education, in economic opportunity, in housing.

00:05:17.860 Upholding indigenous rights and empowering indigenous communities with security and prosperity. 0.91

00:05:24.400 Canada's new government will also be a partner by respecting self-determination, recognizing the fact that partnerships start with a shared understanding,

00:05:48.080 and by making equity, and by making equity and indigenous participation a priority in the building up of our country.

00:05:58.360 Because, well, it's vital that we build, it's more important, it is vital how we build.

00:06:16.820 With indigenous leadership, indigenous prosperity, indigenous opportunity, these must be foundational from the start.

00:06:28.360 We pledge to build a future where survivors are honoured with remembrance, with justice, and with a stronger, fairer Canada.

00:06:49.200 A Canada made stronger by the resilience of its indigenous communities.

00:06:59.880 Reconciliation, as the Governor General, Her Excellency, reminded us,

00:07:04.580 reconciliation is a generational task that must be lived and practiced every day by every Canadian.

00:07:12.040 And it's that point, that's why I began with the painting.

00:07:26.000 That's why the pain of the repression and the possibility of renewal are the last images

00:07:32.980 that I, as Prime Minister, and my ministers see before we enter the Cabinet Room to take some of the most important decisions in this country.

00:07:44.780 It's there so we remember what came before us.

00:07:48.440 And so we are seized with the task ahead of us.

00:07:54.300 We will not fail you.

00:07:57.580 Merci beaucoup.

00:07:59.000 Et vive le Canada.

00:08:00.420 Thank you very much.

00:08:01.700 Long live Canada.

00:08:02.920 This whole schtick is getting so tiring.

00:08:04.760 It's like, yeah, we invaded you.

00:08:06.940 We stole your land. 1.00

00:08:08.080 We killed your children. 0.97

00:08:09.400 We're sorry. 1.00

00:08:10.420 See you next year. 0.98

00:08:11.300 It's pathetic. 0.99

00:08:12.480 And I don't even know why these people bother doing this. 1.00

00:08:15.360 And of course, indigenous people, they're not stupid. 0.98

00:08:18.360 They see right through this stuff. 0.98

00:08:20.400 Here's a recent video from an indigenous activist.

00:08:24.360 Anyone remember the National Enquiry into Murder to Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

00:08:30.080 that the former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, accepted the findings,

00:08:36.540 including that Canada had committed historic and ongoing genocide against indigenous peoples,

00:08:44.360 and in particular, indigenous women and girls.

00:08:47.620 I remember that.

00:08:49.040 And one of the calls for justice was that on any infrastructure project or natural resource extraction

00:08:57.000 that indigenous women would be at the table and be able to be part of a gender-based violence assessment

00:09:06.820 of any of those projects, because during those big, big projects,

00:09:12.980 indigenous women and girls are at higher risk of violence and issues of murdered and missing.

00:09:19.820 So this is something that Bill C-5, Prime Minister Mark Carney's new bill that can allegedly trump

00:09:29.800 environmental laws and indigenous rights, despite the fact they're protected in the Constitution,

00:09:36.600 override provincial jurisdiction, workers' rights, you name it.

00:09:41.700 It all forgot about the rights of indigenous women to be part of the assessment process

00:09:49.120 to make sure that none of these projects are going to lead to more violence against indigenous women and girls.

00:09:55.340 And I haven't seen anybody mention that in the government.

00:09:59.720 And that's a grave oversight.

00:10:02.480 Now, I'm really glad the left is calling out Carney, too.

00:10:05.080 Carney should feel ashamed of himself.

00:10:07.040 That is, if he could feel shame, which I don't think he can.

00:10:09.800 Now, to be fair, the woman in this video, her name is Pam Palmiter,

00:10:13.720 and I believe she's more aligned with the NDP.

00:10:16.360 However, it is a fact that a lot of people aligned with the NDP

00:10:19.700 actually cross the aisle to vote liberal.

00:10:22.660 So just a few quick notes.

00:10:23.980 Number one, Carney needs to stop using indigenous people as props, 1.00

00:10:28.240 and he also needs to resign.

00:10:30.320 I think we can all agree on that.

00:10:31.940 However, I do have some more possibly controversial opinions on the subject.

00:10:35.900 Look, I will acknowledge that what the European people did

00:10:38.960 to the indigenous people was terrible.

00:10:41.360 However, that happened mostly hundreds of years ago.

00:10:44.360 And that was at a time where it was quite common to do that.

00:10:47.580 It wasn't uncommon for more advanced civilizations

00:10:50.100 to take over less advanced civilizations.

00:10:53.440 It's not pretty, but that's part of the history of human civilization.

00:10:57.400 And let's not act like white people were the first group of people 0.88

00:11:00.040 or the only group of people to do that.

00:11:01.980 And another controversial opinion is I truly believe

00:11:04.440 that the colonization in North America by the Europeans

00:11:06.820 was a necessary step that allowed humans to progress as a species.

00:11:11.360 And personally, I don't think modern-day Canadians owe anything to indigenous people. 0.99

00:11:15.500 What happened happened.

00:11:17.040 But the people that are alive today aren't responsible

00:11:19.640 for what their ancestors may or may not have done.

00:11:22.400 Now, I will acknowledge the residential schools were real.

00:11:26.940 And that was a black stain on our history.

00:11:29.320 There's other conservative commentators that'll go a bit farther and say,

00:11:32.460 no, the residential schools were fake, nobody died, nothing bad happened.

00:11:36.840 I don't agree with that.

00:11:37.760 That's not true.

00:11:39.020 Let's just acknowledge that, yeah, the residential schools did exist

00:11:42.000 and bad things happened in the past.

00:11:44.520 However, I'm not going to sit here and cry about things that I had nothing to do with.

00:11:48.620 But anyway, that's just my two cents.

00:11:50.160 Let me know what you think in the comment section.

00:11:52.500 Keep it nice.

00:11:53.160 Keep it respectful.

00:11:54.280 Talk to you tomorrow, Patriots.

Carney HUMILIATES Himself With Reconciliation Speech

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