When WIll Average Canadians Have A Day Of Protest

Whose land is it? The facts aren't in

As today's National Aboriginal Day of Action gets underway, many eyes and video crews will be focused on Deseronto. The small Ontario town on the shores of Lake Ontario is where Mohawk hothead Shawn Brant -- darling of the Marxist-Leninists, hero of anti-poverty group. A national day of protest will change nothing Today's national "day of action," called by the Assembly of First Nations, will receive a bumper crop of media coverage, perhaps inconvenience some non-aboriginals, but otherwise do nothing. There have been many incidents of protest in the past without fundamentally changing anything on a national basis. We can't keep native communities on life-support forever The "National Day of Action," we are told, is intended to bring the public's attention to the grisly poverty and suffering that afflict so many aboriginal Canadians. If it does, it's all to the good. The problems are only too real. We are also told that the solution to those problems involves devolving.