"In 2006 I wrote an article in a Campbell River Newspaper called, "THE INDUSTRY OF MEETINGS MUST END". I chastised my fellow Aboriginals about how they were using meetings as a personal financial revenue generator, while creating nothing. I also warned them of the future.

The article alluded to how one day a Conservative majority government was inevitable. May 2, 2011 we finally saw this come about, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sure to skin Indian and Northern Affairs Canada to the bone. Indians dependent upon the social structure of this agency, or spoiled by the funds they accumulate being an aboriginal privy to funds via I.N.A.C., are over very soon.

I for one am so relieved knowing that those spoiled Indian's who drive around in their Escalade's going to meeting after meeting compiling mass amounts of honorarium while doing nothing, are soon to be a thing of the past. It's the educated with degrees, and aboriginal entrepreneurs that are now going to set the path for our aboriginal community's to prosper by. The time to create, prove, and use what one has readily at hand is now coming about once again. Kind of like the old days where we prospered by hard work, and used what was close at hand, instead of relying upon hand outs.

I look at it as the majority of Aboriginals of this country finally being weaned from the government teat. Many shall now have to create, prove their worth in order to stay in council, keep their seats on boards, or organizations in order to generate a pay cheque. The day of a fat cheque just because you showed up for a meeting are over, and I know it's only going to make the strong, stronger, and the weak fade away. This is good, for the weak honorarium monger have been nothing but anchors hanging off the bows of the Aboriginals that want to prosper via their toil. These people are the modern day suppressors of their own people, for in their sloth, they hold back the people they represent, and keep them in poverty."

Get the Story:
Tom Sewid: Times will be changing for all First Nations (The Campbell River Courier-Islander 5/6)