Extra-territorial police work
alMath for the economically challenged; if you make the numbers large enough, nobody will care. Right now, the First Nations are looking to the federal government for reparational funds. I mean, a lifetime has a value. Not to get into lives. So, one number being bandied about is four billion. As usual, there are some that wonder about how our national budget will ever handle an amount like that.
Here’s something to weigh in the balance. Over the last three years, we (meaning the Canadian economy) have given the petroleum industry a rounded amount of eighteen billion in subsidies. Six billion per fiscal year. When you compare that to the earlier numbers, perhaps we need to try a little harder. Repairing the damage we’ve done, on one side of the social ledger against money given to foreign interests (yes, all that petro-money races out of the country).
To the nay sayers: correct me if I’m wrong.
Meanwhile (because there’s always a meanwhile, right?) we’re under a severe thunder storm alert. Pretty rare around here. Unlike Florida, we get a storm several times a year, in contrast to their “several times a day” during bad weather weeks. Nothing heard, or seen, yet.
Jurisdictional confusion: after the assassination in Haiti, this week, they’ve called in the FBI. Oddly, I thought that their mandate was an American one. Or can you call on the big boys in “law and order”, even from beyond the pale? I had never considered the possibility.
Just finished a great fish takeout meal. Getting to be a weekly tradition.
