Laughing Under Water

'You kids today with your water. When we were kids we didn't have water. We used to suck the fluid out of mud, and we were grateful for that fluid.' - Dom Irrera

Laughing Under Water

Laughing Under Water: Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know - Groucho Marx

A Series of Thoughts on Reconciliation

Reconciliation as the Goal of Consultation with Aboriginal Peoples

Things that do not lead to reconciliation:

The idea that consultation does not require change, and that the doctrine created by the SCC has limited practical meaning. So governments can proceed with their decisions as originally intended. Consultation without damages, without changes, without response. This idea is the one where procedural matters are what matter, but substantive outcomes do not.