Posted by: KenN
Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
Has any one in the media quantified the cost of this blockade yet?
Dunno.
Has anyone in the media quantified the cost of taking children from their parents and forcing them into residential schools?
Has anyone in the media quantified the cost of forcing indigenous peoples to live in substandard housing, breathing mold spores that affect their health?
Has anyone in the media quantified the cost of being forced to eat fish caught from mercury-polluted waters in order to survive?
Has anyone in the media quantified the cost of having no clean drinking water for decades at over 100 reserves?
Instead of asking "how much it costs us", maybe start asking why it's happening, why nothing has been done for so long, and why the land protectors have come to the conclusion that nothing will be done going forward without large scale disruption.
Well lets see, perhaps you should ask yourself if anyone in the Media cares about those STILL? Old info doesnt generate clicks or enough to make the money machine go around.
I was thinking what a shutdown of Broadway Cambie cost the City of Vancouver for that day. How many surgery's were cancelled or post poned being an arterial route by VGH. Did petty theft and property crime increase during that protest day because of the 40+ VPD required to monitor the unsanctioned event?
I dont keep track of native affairs for a few reasons. One is its a completely lopsided moral argument. Another is I had sweet fuck all to do it with, despite what you or Tungsten might want to say. Another being, you cant reason with the majority of the arguments - its like reparations.. Do they want their own Nisga Treaty too? Do they not get along with other bands?