For those who want to know just how stupid politics can get in Canada
Two days of media and government paralyzation because H1N1 pandemic preparedness kits shipped to Indian reserves included body bags...
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said yesterday the body bag shipment "sends a message – it simply says: `We expect aboriginal Canadians to die.'"
Lillian Dyck, a Liberal senator and First Nations member from Saskatchewan, was at Ignatieff's side as he lambasted the government.
"It's like someone had taken a knife and driven it into my heart," Dyck said.
"As a woman, how would you feel if you were worried about being infected with H1N1 and what you were sent was a body bag, indicating that your family was going to die?"
Because apparently, First Nations people would prefer to litter their own countryside with festering infected carcasses instead of safely containing any contagion, for the sake of survivors.
The government would do well to launch an initiative to have the Liberal caucus take charge of flu preparations for Native reserves. Let Michael Ignatieff pack the kits himself and include whatever he thinks is culturally sensitive. Then, when the bodies start piling up, send him in with a wheelbarrow for a photo op.
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