Tansi everyone,

I trust you have been enjoying the weather this last long weekend of the ‘summer’.   I have as well as being on the campaign trail.

 I received a call this AM that the last letter I posted on the blog about Mr. Lyle Donald not submitting a criminal record check in order to represent region 4 at the Métis Urban Housing board, is personal and as such would I remove it in order to avoid possible legal repercussions.  Of Course I will, I said.  Thank you was the response.

It is personal, not just to the people named in the letter, but it is personal to the Metis Nation especially when the person in question is running for office.   We see these kinds of things in mainstream politics all the time, the 'skeletons' old and new, come out.  Metis people in region 4 voted for me in 2008 because they wanted to know what is going on and they expected me to do the right thing.  For this I have been persecuted and took many hits.   It is time now for you to decide once again who will represent you at the regional level - someone who keeps you locked out of your own regional office, some one who refuses to get a criminal record check to sit on an MNA board or someone who feels its time for change and is willing to do something about it.    

Interestingly, there had been a motion at one time for candidates to have a mandatory criminal record check but lawyers said it violated some rights and could not be enforced.  However, provincial council were encouraged to submit one voluntarily.  I have had a current criminal record check for decades – doing volunteer work and employment of various kinds which required it.

Thought, whenever you see something interesting on the internet, you should copy it and keep it in your own records in case it gets subsequently removed from the internet. 

What would Louis Riel do?  

Thanks for listening and call me if you need a ride to the poll tomorrow :)