Don't Call The Police

If you wake up one morning to find Natives lounging on your deck, or constructing a tent in your backyard, or even sitting in your living room, don't bother to call the Brantford City Police. They don't want to get involved. Oh, they might show up to assess the situation but as long as there is no violence, then according to them everything is okay. And they will probably advise you not to disturb the natives. If you do, you might be the one arrested. But otherwise it's not their problem. Why would they want to enforce the law anyway?

And don't bother to contact the Mayor or Council either, they will just say their hands are tied and there is nothing they can do.

Don't bother to contact Dave Levac either. Oh, he might fire of a letter to someone or other, as he always does but that will be all the help you will receive there. And Premier McGuinty? If contacted he will pretend he knows nothing about the existence of Brantford, will blame the Feds and then change the subject to how the province is being short-changed by Ottawa. After all McGuinty has stated that when it comes to Native occupations "you are on your own".

And finally the Federal Government. They will refer you back to the province saying that they are the ones responsible for policing. And it won't do any good to contact the Liberal opposition either. After all, Former Prime Minister Paul Martin, say he thinks that Native protest are okay. And it is the Harper Governments fault that land claims are not settled, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Liberals were in power for twelve of the last fourteen years when nothing was done to settle these claims.