JMJ
Feb.28, 2019
The wolves got Brownie last night.Brownie is our neighbour’s dog. He was their son’s dog and was a badly needed constant in his troubled life. Like all Brabant Lake dogs
he was tied up , making him an easy prey. The next predicted meal is our Charlebois who stays out all the time. We don’t have a gun but we’ll do what we can to protect him. John phoned the Southend SERM office. “Scott “ said this is the first complaint that he’s heard. Strange since this is our second bevy of phone calls and the second blog on the issue. Before Christmas a woman SERM officer phoned me after the third ignored message . I thought that she was giving me grief therapy rather than a promise for action.
How did wolves become not only a protected species but a sacred and “ Holy Cow” ? I had occasion to spend time waiting at an eye specialist office. I picked up an Ecological Nazi magazine called BESIDEeside. It ‘s cover showed a dense forest with a row of log stumps. In case you don’t know that you are suppose to cringe with horror the inside cover explains that an area had been flooded , then drained. The border of stumps shows what man did. The magazine explains that the goal is to protrct Wilderness. Wilderness means untouched by a human footstep, nor seen by binoculars held by a human nor a hand scraping a tree. There are few photos of animals except one of six wolves . An article does mention a research project to save some lakes by destroying others. At present it is costing $1.5 million.
It did not tell us how much the tax funded magazine cost. No advertisements sullied the anti- human propaganda show case.
How did the very sensible , short and balanced Indian Act become a tool for racism? Firstly no one seems to read it so people make up what it says. The Indian Act was intended to assure that starving natives going from a nomadic lifestyle to a confined and agricultural existence would not die in the process. It qualifies that hunting rights can be tempored by conservation laws that affect everyone . It was not intended for a bludgeon that only an aboriginal can kill a wolf that is threatening game ( as in family food) . It was not intended that one has to have a permit to protect yourself, your family or your lifestock , including communal live stock , that is caribou, moose etc. It was not intended that conservation laws would be made on the basis of the level of melanin in your skin. Melanin is the colour pigment that determines one’s shade of brown or pink.
In the mean time people , treaty , non- treaty, females, males , young , old are at the mercy of wolves expanding their hunting territory to our homes and communities when the moose are fleeing south. Gay
