The book is called Occupied
Canada, the idea being that White
Canadians are a bunch of
ruthless, racist conquerors. The
word ‘‘Nazi’’ is not used, but
might as well have been. For we
are seen as being responsible for
all Indian woes.

Few would deny that injustices
have taken place. They took place
in Roman Britain, too. But in this
book there is never a word about
how we are tossing over $4 billion
a year down the insatiable Indian
drain, giving them rights that
others don’t have, letting them
knock salmon on the head in the
Capilano, and making fools of
ourselves. What we have here is a
job of trendy revisionism.

Away with history as we know
it. Away with the story of a few
Mounties bringing law and order
to the West. ‘‘History is bunk,”’
said Henry Ford, and the two
Bobs say ‘‘Amen to that."’

I knew that the book would be
a Song of Lamentations. But |
wanted to be kind to it because
Bob Hunter is one of my favorite
people. If you will pardon a bit of
pomposity, though, profes-
sionalism got the upper hand.

Occupied Canadais not a jour-
nalistic examination of the history
of conquered and conquerors in
Canada. It is a propaganda exer-
cise for which the semi-Indian
Bob can be excused, but not our
Bob, who now claims that he too
is one-sixteenth Indian or some-
thing.

If there is a single good word
about poor old dumb Whitey in
this work I did not see it. Whitey
is a beast. A chapter on the
Department of tndian Affairs is in
fact called ‘‘In The Belly Of The
Beast,”’ in case you don’t get the
point.

On the flimsiest evidence Cana-
dians are accused of having killed
half the kids in the Indian
schools. Which, without exception
it seems, were all swollen versions
of Dothebovys Hall.

As for the carly Jesuits, they
were “‘monsters.’’ That. is the
word used to describe Fathers
Brebeuf and Lalemant, whose ter-
rible deaths by to-ture have still
not been forgotten in French
Canada. But that atrocity and
others like it don’t worry the two
Bobs. They attempt to justify
them.

if we are despicable, the indians
are saintly. The Hurons are an
example, they having being noted
for their spirituality and for hav-
ing ‘“‘considered everything froma
cosmic point of view’? —
whatever that may be.

The bit that really got my
eyebrows wiggling, however, was
the claim that the Indians of yore
had a superior political system.
Try not to laugh, but the two
Bobs say it inspired Sir Thomas
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Two Bobs and
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liberal rot

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Rousseau and the French Revolu-
tion, Benjamin Franklin and the
American Revolution, and Marx
and Engels and the Communist
Revolution.

**The Indian lust for liberty
burst upon the international scene,
changing everything.'* Wonderful.

The Indian arts were also some-
thing to write home about. Which
was why their weaponry never got
beyond bows and arrows and the
double-bladed knife.

**The Indians’ creative energies
had gone into art and theatre,"
say the authors. Of course. No
doubt they were busy painting In-
dian Mona Lisas, performing In-
dian Hamlets and writing Indian
Ninth Symphonies.

I should mention that Bob
Calihoo, the downtrodden semi-
Indian, has done well out of his
fiendish persecutors. A former
jailbird (it was our fault that he
was in prison, naturally) he was
given a free university education
and became chief of the Indian
Inuit Employment Section.

As such he headed the affir-
mative action program that favors
Indians over you-know-who. But
things didn’t move fast enough
for him so he’s now working for
Indians on the West Coast. And
probably consuming more tar
money.

This book seems to have been
written by our Bob on the basis of
the other Bob's research, not a
method that I recommend. But it
will be greeted with joy by the
CBC, the Globe & Mail, the chur-
ches, hippies of all ages and those
who favor the myth of the Noble
Savage. But others should read it
too, for it is an example of the
liberal rot that is ruining Canada.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the two
Bobs got the Governor-General’s
medal, like the French Quebecer
who preached hatred of the
“English.”

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