Canada's Genocide Explained

A 5-minute video interview with Dr. Bruce Clark.




"This video segment captures Dr. Bruce Clark’s riveting and historically correct account of Canada’s genocide of the Aboriginal Peoples.

The state’s systematic and total destruction of peoples, food sources, economic base, family ties, and culture -- facilitated by a legal structure, technology, and institutionalized child theft -- may be unprecedented in human history.

Dr. Clark is an expert on aboriginal rights jurisprudence and was a dedicated advocate for aboriginal land rights in Canada. He represented Gustafsen Lake Faith Keepers at the Gustafsen Lake Standoff in 1995 near Shuswap, BC. From defender of Aboriginal rights before Canadian and international courts to being jailed and disbarred for advancing legal arguments, Dr. Clark's struggle is itself a mirror of Canada’s genocidal crimes.

The high-definition version of the full one-hour video interview is on the film maker's channel: https://youtu.be/lp97_pKafC0

Dr. Bruce Clark: Aboriginal rights lawyer
Denis Rancourt: Interviewer, for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA)
Produced by the OCLA (http://ocla.ca/)
Filmmaker: Peter Biesterfeld

About the Ontario Civil Liberties Association:
The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) defends civil liberties at a time when fundamental freedoms are being eroded in all spheres of social life. OCLA opposes institutional policies and decisions that deprive individuals of their personal liberty or exclude individuals from participation in the democratic functions of society.

Related links
Articles by Dr. Bruce Clark published on Dissident Voice:
http://dissidentvoice.org/author/bruceclark/

Civil liberties activism is a battle against pernicious totalitarianism

Rigorous freedom of expression advocacy, applied irrespective of societal taboos and dominant attitudes, is always political because it always has an effect towards leveling the playing field between powerful state-backed corporate and institutional forces and the individual.

 Discourse, including the extremes, is the main democratic mechanism against spontaneous advances of totalitarianism.

That is why the American Civil Liberties Union, for example, has defended the freedoms of both the KKK and the Black Panther Party, when these freedoms were most at risk. Any group or individual that most needs protection to express, from state-backed threats, should be protected to express.

Otherwise, democratic discourse is impeded and society suffers, to the benefit of dominant power. A stale and thought-moderated "safe space" society is a dead and totalitarian society having no push back against increasing control and exploitation by the top.

Civil liberties activism is a battle against pernicious totalitarianism. Expression is a fundamental human right. We need to hear our worst fears in order to express solutions.


Related article:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/03/how-defamation-law-has-developed-and-is-applied-in-canada/

A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s condemnation of BDS

A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s condemnation of BDS

As McGill professors committed to justice and equity, we strongly disagree with Principal Suzanne Fortier’s official response on behalf of the university administration to the recent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) motion in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and the subsequent on-line process which failed to ratify this vote. Her email response, sent to all McGill students and faculty, came moments after the results of the on-line process were announced, and echoed the disappointing and ill-informed motion passed by the Canadian Parliament in condemning the growing BDS movement.  For Principal Fortier to denounce a movement defending the rights of Palestinians against those who are oppressing them is in fact what “flies in the face of tolerance and respect"—not the BDS movement itself. The call for BDS, drawing upon lessons learned from earlier international movements against apartheid South Africa, indeed urges universities to end institutional ties with institutions funded and sponsored by the Israeli state, and which are complicit in the Occupation and violations of international law. The BDS movement is a measured, non-violent and principled civil society response to life under occupation and colonialism when a people’s basic rights are violated and denied.

The BDS call demands “tolerance and respect” for Palestinians--something that they have been denied by the state of Israel. It is precisely because Palestinians are not afforded the same rights as other peoples that BDS is necessary. Palestinians do not have equal rights to education, and are regularly denied their academic freedom. But they are also denied freedom of movement, freedom of association, and even their lives. "Freedom, equity, inclusiveness and the exchange of views and ideas in responsible, open discourse”, which are the core principles of McGill University as stated by Suzanne Fortier, are precisely what Palestinians are asking for with this call.

If these core principles do indeed guide the McGill community, it is our responsibility to support a grassroots movement initiated by the vast majority of Palestinian civil society. The demands of the BDS movement are simple. Israel should comply with international law by: (1) ending its occupation and colonization of Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; (2) recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and (3) respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. When Israel complies with international law in these ways, there will be no more need for BDS.

Our mission as educators is to advance learning, to create and disseminate knowledge by offering our students the best possible education. We believe that upholding the highest international standards in teaching, research and scholarship, as well as service to local and international communities, means standing up for what is right when called upon to do so--locally, by supporting students who are working for justice for Palestine, and internationally, by responding to the call made by Palestinian civil society.

While we respect the freedom of expression of all members of our community, including the right of Principal Suzanne Fortier to publicly condemn the BDS movement, we resolve to steadfastly continue to support BDS and the work of our students at McGill who will carry on and continue to build this struggle.  In this case, the McGill administration, like the Canadian government, is on the wrong side of history.  The Canadian Parliament’s motion on BDS does not act in our name. As McGill professors, we also declare now and will continue to state that if this is the McGill Administration’s response to the BDS movement, it also does not act in our name.

Signed,

Malek Abisaab, Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies

Diana Allan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of International Development

Alia Al-Saji, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Isabelle Arseneau, professeure agrégée, département de langue et littérature françaises

Jodie Beck, Course Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies

Arnaud Bernadet, professeur agrégé, département de langue et littérature françaises

Lara Braitstein, Associate Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies

Brian Bergstrom, Visiting Professor, Department of East Asian Studies

Curtis Brown, Faculty Lecturer, Department of English

Mary Bunch, Faculty Lecturer, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Michelle Cho, Korea Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies

Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production, Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Barry Eidlin,  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Shanon Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Allan Greer, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America,
Department of History and Classical Studies

Jill Hanley, Associate Professor, McGill School of Social Work

Michelle Hartman, Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies

Adrienne Hurley, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies

Ahmed F. Ibrahim, Assistant Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies

Steven Jordan, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Pasha M. Khan, Assistant Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies

Thomas Lamarre, James McGill Professor in East Asian Studies and Associate in Communications Studies

Catherine Leclerc, professeure agrégée, département de langue et littérature françaises

Andrée Lévesque, Professor Emerita, History Department

Abby Lippman, Professor Emerita - Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health

Margaret Lock, Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita, Department of Social Studies of Medicine

Laura Madokoro, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Setrag Manoukian, Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies and Department of Anthropology

Gregory M. Mikkelson, Associate professor, Department of Philosophy

Charmaine A. Nelson, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies

Naomi Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Máire Noonan, Course Lecturer & Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics

Kristin Norget, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Anthony Paré, Professor Emeritus, Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Laila Parsons, Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Jarrett Rudy, Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Jessica Ruglis, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology

Mela Sarkar, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Richard Shearmur, Professor, McGill School of Urban Planning

Jon Soske, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies

Maria Theresia Starzmann, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

Gavin Walker, Assistant Professor, History & Classical Studies and East Asian Studies

Robert Wisnovsky, Professor and James McGill Chair, Institute of Islamic Studies

Brian J. Young, Professor Emeritus, Department of History 

It's the Geopolitics, stupid!

By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD

Geopolitics determines domestic policy.
Geopolitics determines domestic policy.
Geopolitics determines domestic policy.

This is apparent in the client country "Canada", where no sovereignty is allowed, and where domestic policy is entirely about preventing any emergence of actual democracy.

It is glaringly obvious, to anyone who escapes the constant institutional social-engineering restrictions and blaring propaganda amplified by all the media, that US-led geopolitics determines every aspect of state management in Canada.

That US-led geopolitics determines every aspect of state management in Canada is true in every area of state involvement:

• regulation of politics
• social policy
• health policy
• educational and student-debt policy
• prison and police complex
• domestic surveillance complex
• slave banking and monetary policy
• corporate tax and royalties policies
• zero resistance against foreign takeovers
• zero national policy for industrial-base development in all areas except the client arms industries and slave industries such as agri-food using proprietary seeds and chemicals
• slave trade agreements designed to counter BRICS and boost US global corporations
• implementation of carbon economic instruments
• pipeline economics (versus domestic refinement and transformation) 
• predatory global mining extraction (including on domestic territories)
• arms industry preeminence
• arms purchases
• foreign policy and diplomatic campaigns
• involvement in and diplomatic support for illegal direct and proxy wars of aggression

The "Conservative" and "Liberal" blocks are entirely aligned with the US "Republican" and "Democrat" blocks, to the point that it has become a cartoon, with pipelines swinging in different directions at the turn of elections, as easily as geopolitical directions.

Break diplomatic ties with Iran, remake diplomatic ties with Iran... etc.

The Canadian state, in the hands of the US governing complex, has given itself the task of gutting our minds and our political agency, in order to serve the US global campaigns, without the nuisance of popular domestic awareness or demands. This has been a long and continuing process, which accelerated in the 1980s, and became solidified by ever-increasing "globalization" agreements, and security "cooperation".

The truth is: there is no Canada. There is only an illusion maintained by servants. There are institutional remnants that would allow sovereignty to take hold, in a battle for the nation, but the intelligentsia and service managers have no interest in an independent and democratic nation on Canadian territory.

At this rate, eventually the majority of Canadians will experience something towards what the Aboriginals have experienced in Canada's genocide. Those who have had their families and lives destroyed by the "children's aid" and family court complex are already experiencing aboriginality at the hands of a vicious state system.

The corporate managers (including governments, which are corporations) already invest abroad, serve on the boards of multinationals, vacation in the US, accept tourist packages to Israel, send their kids to Harvard, and even occasionally try to import their facade party leaders from Harvard. The middle managers want a heated pool, vacation packages, big-screen entertainment, two cars, and a golden retirement.

All the others can fight among themselves, be institutionalized, and get fucked.