Clearly a conflict of interest
Re: What Progressives Can’t See, Barbara Kay; Keeping Politicians Honest, Lauren Heuser, both, March 16.
It’s an example of Barbara Kay’s “hemispatial neglect” that our politically correct media have not yet called out Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould for her clear actual and apparent conflict of interest position. She was the B.C. regional chief of the Association of First Nations before running for the Liberals. In that position she supported all the AFN’s anti- Crown sovereignty positions, including Perry Bellegarde’s ringing declaration when he was elected that “Canada is Indian land.”
Wilson-Raybould has already delivered to the AFN chiefs by supporting the cancellation of the First Nations Financial Transparency Act. Now Lauren Heuser reveals she and her husband are still at the Indian industry public trough. This is disgraceful.
When Wilson- Raybould took office, she swore an oath to defend the sovereignty and powers of the Queen. How can she carry out that oath when much of her career — for which she is wrongly lionized and which she has never disavowed — was devoted to the AFN’s goal of challenging and eroding Crown sovereignty? She is a fox in the henhouse of the crucially needed, vastly under appreciated ( by our courts and elites), strong and absolute Crown sovereignty.
Peter Best, Sudbury, Ont. It seems Barbara Kay never fails to find a powerful analogy, in this case the neurological condition of “hemi-spatial neglect,” to illustrate her penetrating insight into the behaviour of people who classify themselves as “progressives.” As her arguments illustrate, they would be more accurately classified as “oppressives,” but this is a topic for another day. Everyone suffers from blind spots but it seems likely that the current structure of university education exacerbates this problem, since it produces a preponderance of arts graduates with strong synthesis skills and few or no quantitative, analytical skills.
Lack of quantitative analytic skills makes people live in a “yes-no,” “good-bad,” “black-white” world, when much of life requires a capacity to make resource allocation trade- offs between legitimately competing interests. In the absence of quantitative analysis skills, one has no way of assessing the optimality of any trade- offs that are made, a situation that could be characterized as resulting from “hemi- skill neglect”.
James Cripps, North Vancouver, B. C.