PHOTO: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip

iPolitics reports, “Up until October 19, Jill Winzoski was a reporter with the Selkirk Record in rural Manitoba. Now she is unemployed. …Jill knows how she lost her job. It was politics, in the person of her local MP, the Conservative member for Selkirk Interlake, James Bezan. …Stories like the sinister shutdown of Canada’s world-famous Experimental Lakes Area got her attention. Her readers, including card-carrying Conservatives, liked her spunk and enjoyed her writing. James Bezan, not so much.” The MP complained about her articles and pulled his advertising from the Selkirk Record. “(But), the people who asked Jill to forgo writing about federal politics had forgotten to tell her that sending or signing petitions … was also forbidden.

CBC reports that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is clearly frustrated by the lack of progress on a Canada-India Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement.

The news article by Terry Milewski notes,  "After a slow-moving summit with his Indian counterpart, Harper told a business conference (the World Economic Forum) in New Delhi that trade ties between India and Canada are not developing fast enough. … He added tartly, 'massive and undeniable as that potential is, it will not develop itself.' …Frustration (was also expressed) yesterday when prime minister Manmohan Singh refused to allow a joint press conference following his meeting with Harper -- prompting a brief and hastily-arranged press scrum by Harper alone."

Please read this important letter we received from the St’at’imc Chiefs Council regarding the Canada-China FIPA:

November 1, 2012

Dear Prime Minister Harper:

I am writing as Chair of the St’at’imc Chiefs Council to firmly express, advise and direct the Government of Canada to reject the Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement with China as the Government of Canada has breached its obligations to consult the St’at’imc on our constitutionally-enshrined Aboriginal Title and Rights.