Le 21 juin marque la Journée nationale des Autochtones. C’est le jour choisi pour rendre hommage aux Premières Nations, aux Inuits et aux Métis du Canada, et pour souligner leur importante contribution à l’essor du pays.
Monsieur Trudeau a offert trois cadeaux aux Premières Nations
1. Le bureau de Justin Trudeau est situé dans l’édifice Langevin, ainsi baptisé en l'honneur d'Hector-Louis Langevin, surintendant des Affaires indiennes dans le cabinet du premier ministre John A. Macdonald et considéré comme l'un des architectes de l’horrible système de pensionnats autochtones. Dorénavant, l'édifice sera tout simplement connu sous le nom de «bureau du premier ministre et du conseil privé».
2. Le premier ministre a également confirmé que le 100, rue Wellington, l'ancien siège de l'ambassade américaine à Ottawa, face au parlement, deviendra un édifice emblématique des peuples autochtones. «Cet espace (...) sera converti en un espace pour les Autochtones. Un espace que les Premières Nations, les Inuits et la nation métisse seront appelés à imaginer, à planifier, à construire.» (1)
3. Enfin, le premier ministre a également annoncé que son gouvernement rebaptise la Journée nationale des Autochtones pour en faire la Journée nationale des peuples autochtones.
(Presse canadienne)
Malheureusement, Justin Trudeau ne leur a pas offert l’unique cadeau qui importe.
À Ottawa on concède les territoires aux riches investisseurs étrangers.
Kinder Morgan répond à la question climatique que Trudeau refuse de clarifier
Keith Stewart, le 14 juin 2017
Le ministre des Ressources naturelles, Jim Carr est de retour de Chine, où il a poussé sur les exportations de pétrole canadien, et la ministre de l'environnement Catherine McKenna est revenue de la rencontre sur l'environnement du G7 en Italie.
Comme le Canada continue de claironner son leadership et son engagement en matière d’environnement sur la scène internationale, il est intéressant de revoir comment une société pétrolière basée au Texas répond à la question que le gouvernement Trudeau refuse de clarifier : comment peut-il agressivement poursuivre ses exportations de combustibles fossiles par le biais de nouveaux pipelines et respecter son engagement à l'accord de Paris?
En campagne électorale, Justin Trudeau avait dit à Dogwood Initiative's Kai Nagata que le processus d'approbation pour le projet Trans Mountain Pipeline de Kinder Morgan «devait être révisé». Cependant, une fois au pouvoir, il a simplement désigné un groupe pour mener des consultations publiques supplémentaires.
Le projet controversé de Trans Mountain vise l’installation d’un nouveau pipeline de 987 kilomètres connecté à un système existant qui relie les sables bitumineux de l'Alberta à la côte de la Colombie-Britannique. Sa construction triplerait la capacité du système qui pourrait ainsi expédier quotidiennement 890 000 barils de pétrole directement vers les tankers locaux dans les eaux longeant la ville de Vancouver.
Kinder Morgan reconnaît le challenge de Greenpeace
La société a révisé son prospectus et reconnu le challenge de Greenpeace, en disant que les efforts combinés du gouvernement et des entreprises visant à réduire le réchauffement climatique et les émissions de carbone, «incluant, par exemple, les objectifs de décarbonisation énoncés dans l'accord de Paris et l'émergence de la technologie et de l'opinion publique, contribuent à une plus grande demande pour les énergies renouvelables... Cela pourrait non seulement entraîner une augmentation des coûts pour les producteurs d'hydrocarbures, mais aussi à une diminution globale de la demande mondiale en hydrocarbures». [...] Les nouveaux projets de sables bitumineux ne seraient pas rentables, reconnaît l’entreprise, et il est possible que dans le futur il n’y ait pas «de nouveaux pipelines construits dans la région des sables bitumineux de l'Athabasca».
[Catherine] McKenna devraient réfléchir à ses rencontres avec ses homologues du G7 qui ont renouvelé leur appui à l'accord de Paris après que le président américain Donald Trump se soit retiré. Ce serait une honte de ridiculiser cette coopération en continuant de soutenir un pipeline qui serait viable uniquement si l’accord de Paris échouait.
Article intégral (en anglais) :
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/06/14/opinion/kinder-morgan-answers-climate-question-trudeau-wont
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(1) Anna Maria Tremonti recevait à son émission The Current sur CBC l’artiste autochtone réputé Roy Henry Vickers en septembre 2016. Il parlait de ses origines et de son parcours. Vous pouvez lire la transcription de cette très touchante interview (ou mieux l’écouter) à cette adresse :
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-september-2-2016-1.3745677/encore-artist-roy-henry-vickers-on-making-art-beating-addiction-and-turning-70-1.3745685
ROY HENRY VICKERS: Life was just about horses in the north country and fishing out on the ocean with my Grampa. And when I got to Victoria I came across discrimination for the first time in my life and I didn't know what it was. And when I discovered that it was people in the city who didn't know First Nations Peoples, I started to look at myself differently and realize, well, I guess I am a First Nations person and what is that? So my life became a journey of discovery of the Tsimshian and the Haida and the Kwagiulth, all of who are part of my ancestry. And so that led me on a journey to be an artist to teach people the culture and the art of the Northwest coast and here I am still doing it today.
AMT: You were the only First Nation kidding around at some point. You didn't feel different until they made you feel different?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: That's right, yeah.
AMT: How old were you?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: I was 17 years old. I was an Oak Bay High School in Victoria and when I looked at my class picture there are all these white faces and this one little brown face and that was me.
AMT: What would they say to you? How would they discriminate?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: It wasn't any spoken word. I was just excluded, instead of included. And I guess it was part of the generational abuse left over from residential schools. And I refused to give in to it and it actually got me to study the culture and become an educator.
(...) And I became an artist, colour blind and all.
AMT: You were a firefighter at one point too, though, weren’t you?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: I was. I was. My art teacher William West at the time said, Roy, what do you plan to do now? And I said, well, I'm going to make my living as an artist, I guess. I'll go to university and study fine art. And he said, well, do an old man a favour and don't study fine art. If you have to go to university, study anything but fine art. And I asked him why he would say that, because he was an art teacher. And he said, that's exactly my point. I wanted to be an artist. I went through the whole program and I got my Master's in art and by then I was married with children and had to get a job and I became a teacher. So, if you want to study art, you study what you want to study, not what the academy tells you should study to get a degree. And if you have the fortune to find out who you are and create images from that special place, because every human being is special, then you may be creating something that only you can create. And you will know when that happens because people will come up to you and say, I was out fishing the other day and looking at the water and I saw your water, or I was looking at the sun going down and I saw one of your sunsets. And when you hear that you will know that you are creating impressions on people and helping them to see the world the way you see it. And I've heard that thousands of times in 42 years as an artist.
(...) And those images look traditional, but the subject matter was not First Nations. And so I gradually broke down the barriers of my isolation, so to speak, and began being a bridge between cultures and that desire to express myself eventually led me to work with something fearful, and that was colour and sunsets and blue skies and green. And how am I going to do that if I'm partially colour blind?
AMT: I was just going to ask you - how do you do that if you’re partially colour blind?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: Well, I just paint what I see and apparently people like it.
AMT: When did your career really take off?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: As soon as I left Ksan in 1974 the very first pieces that I did sold out. And so in two weeks I made more money than I was making in the fire department in a year. And so that kind of gave me the courage or the knowledge that I was going to be able to do this. But in 1987, an original painting called A Meeting of Chiefs was given to Queen Elizabeth here in Vancouver and that put me in a place that very few artists in the Commonwealth get to be and that's when everything changed.
AMT: And stories and storytelling and creating art keep you in the place you need to be, so that the addiction can be kept away?
ROY HENRY VICKERS: Well, addiction is what people turn to when they are not comfortable with their emotions. And so the addict is someone who is trying to get away from their emotions. I don't want to be away from my emotions. Fear teaches me that something, there is some danger present, and when I process the fear I'm given wisdom. Pain helps me realize that there's a pain that everyone carries and the more that I work at knowing where the pain comes from the more healing comes to me. And the more healing that comes to me the more healing I have to give to others. And that's what life is about: giving love and respect to the world around us.
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