Thread by @sunnshiiny

I just thought I’d something.

Trudeau’s (LPC’s) strategy was to recruit the people critical of government inaction. Then get them to make the changes in cabinet positions.

Some worked out like McKenna. Others didn’t, like JWR.

https://twitter.com/sunnshiiny/status/1461863506563665920

It’s not an ideological approach. It’s bringing in the people with honed skills to perform for government.

The real power is at the decision table. Not in protests from the outside. So bring the protesters into government to make the changes.

Brilliant strategy.

There are many good people who have great ideas that just require the opportunity to implement them. While bureaucrats can be a support, they cannot lead. Cabinet ministers lead the agenda. You need effective leaders to get the job done, not politicians.

That seems to be the LPC approach to party recruitment of candidates. Searching for those with expert level skills who are willing to shape policy and create a new direction on the job.

It’s unfortunate JWR didn’t work out. She should have been vetted much better.

Too much history with Bill Wilson and Pierre Trudeau. Too much animosity by communities that have been betrayed and mistreated. There are exceptions, but the most radical FN seem to be in areas of the country that don’t have numbered treaties.

Recruitment should focus on numbered treaty regions of the country for party candidates. Maybe even at the bureaucratic level of Deputy Minister.

Power is always on the inside, not in protest.

FN extremists seem to have banded together with American Native rights movement and adopted their radicalized approach. Which I am researching for evidence that radicalization is foreign influenced. Foreign to both US and Canada.

There is certainly evidence that the progressive left has been compromised by dark money and nefarious foreign support. I have found a few indicators that reveal the progressive left is aware of the influence, but I believe most are just gullible useful idiots.

I would assume the same is true in the FN community. Most people believe in their leaders. But where are the leaders getting information on how to protest effectively?

Certainly not from their elders.

The militancy and rigidity in ideals is uncharacteristic of indigenous protest in Canada.

The Idle No More protests spawned much activism so I’m going to research that era.

How did Harper turn from hated pariah to libertarian freedom champion in the eyes of FN communities?

That’s a project I’m working on.

I remember a cousin being very upset in 2006 that Harper wanted to remove the Indian Act and assimilate FN.

Now that same cousin is adamant the Indian Act needs to be repealed and FN given liberty.

How did that happen?

I’ll be looking for the answer. I have a few leads. All of them lead back to Atlas Network. The question is how.