This movie was made for just me
…and perhaps Coyne, but that’s it, no one else is allowed to see it, sod off.
…and perhaps Coyne, but that’s it, no one else is allowed to see it, sod off.
Since Friday, a few readers – and others – have suggested that the FBI’s mid-campaign move in 2016 was just like the RCMP’s mid-campaign move in 2006. With the conservative option benefitting.
The FBI’s stunt won’t change the election’s outcome, just as the RCMP’s didn’t. But, just for the sake of argument, let’s ask ourselves: did the Mounties change history?
Um, no. And here’s the response I just gave a commenter:
This is one of the great myths of Canadian politics.
Ipsos and others showed that the CPC moved ahead of the LPC immediately after Jane Creba was gunned down on Yonge Street. It happened over the Christmas holidays, and it provided dramatic support for the Cons’ “law and order” message. That’s when the numbers moved, big time.
The Martin Liberals lost because (a) they spectacularly mismanaged the sponsorship affair (b) they had a million messages instead of just five (like Harper) and (c) they were running the shittiest campaign in Canadian history (“soldiers in the streets,” etc.).
The RCMP didn’t win the election for Harper. The Martin Liberals did that all on their own.
This is the theme I would have been hammering away at – although not in the way this is done (too many talking heads).
Here’s the original, about which I named my company.
Time to let this sonofabitch have it, hard. Leave him gasping for air.
Four minutes. Questions asked, answers given. That’s a real president.
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— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 28, 2016
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— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 28, 2016
So, this:
Look, we have three big totems – three – in our house, and another big one in Daisy’s boardroom. We have more masks and carvings than I can count. Anybody who knows me will tell you I revere Northwest native art like it is from God (because it is). More broadly, we work with First Nations and indigenous people more than we work with anybody else. Our families include First Nations peoples.
So you will perhaps forgive me for saying that this Maclean’s story made me go meh.
Trudeau has a Raven-and-light tattoo on his shoulder. When I heard about that, I was pretty surprised, too. That creation story is really important – we have a huge print depicting the Raven releasing the sun from the giant’s box on our living room wall – and I was impressed, at the time, that (a) Trudeau apparently knew about it and (b) thought it was important enough to put it on his arm.
My next ink will be a Raven, too, The Hands of Creation. It’s by Beau Dick, and my B.C. buddy David Plewes gave me a limited print of it about thirty years ago, which still hangs in a prominent spot near our door. The Raven is the trickster, and I love all of the many stories about how he is part of us but also sometimes against us.
These Haida artists quoted in the Maclean’s story would have a legitimate beef, I think, were it not for stuff like this: Raven toys. Raven scarves. Raven candles. Raven rings (I’ve been wearing one of those for years). And so on.
I guess my point is this: you either sell your culture to people who don’t understand it and/or don’t deserve it – or you don’t. Share it or don’t. Let a well-intentioned guy like Trudeau put it on his arm, forever, or don’t.
You don’t get to be “bemused” by it when you like someone, and then call them a knife-wielding traitor when they have an opinion you don’t like.
Either you sell bits of your culture, or you don’t.
They sold it.
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