THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

The Globe and mail reported today that BC Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong is considering renaming the Strait of Georgia. The name?

"The Salish Sea."

This is the most egregious and disgusting case of political correctness and Tokenism I think I have ever witnessed.

Natives need no more empty gestures.

They don't even need more money.

They need pride of self, determination, and focus, and they and they alone can grant themselves these necessities.

Talk to Gail Sparrow or Gloria Webster or any other aboriginal person who has made an exemplary life for herself or himself and her or his family.

All the handouts and all the cheap tokens will not do the trick.

Gail says go down to the DES and haul back your drunk brothers and sisters and care for them and lead them to sobriety.

Gloria says go to school, get a University degree, compete, succeed. She did.

I am sickened by this idiotic suggestion.

I am despairing that anyone would give this a moment's thought.

If de Jong had any sense, he would have told the native leader who made this suggestion, "You don't need new and empty names, Sir. You need dignity. That only comes from work."

Email the minister and tell him to respect people and stop playing with them.