Minister’s actions admirable

I would like to offer an Indian perspective on the recent debacle regarding SNC-Lavalin and the attorney general.

Firstly, I would like to offer words of respect to our clan mother Jody Wilson-Raybould. She showed tremendous courage, fortitude and spirit in her standing up against our corporate oppressors in their attempt to shake her integrity in an effort to help a crooked corporation.

Had the attorney general been a man, things certainly would have gone differently, but only an Indian woman refused to play “the game,” which was created and is run by a male hierarchy.

While the pressure and “veiled threats” that were thrown at her have been referred to as “suggestions” or “lobbying,” they most certainly were meant to be received as orders that would result in consequences if she did not co-operate.

As a woman or an Indian, we are supposed to feel honoured and obligated to accept when our privileged, male betters offer us a position or job.

Wilson-Raybould went up against the divine right bestowed on privileged white males since the days of European monarchy, and that divine right says that as a male of privilege, I do not accept the word “no” from a woman, be that in regards to rape or her body, her culture, her people, or her integrity. And I’ll say again with emphasis that her integrity was indeed unshakable, and her actions admirable. Dan Ennis, Tobique, N.B.