The Abotech Affair: David Smith, Aboriginal Leader
From September 2004 issue of Livewire, the online newsletter for the Young Liberals of Canada:
The 2004 federal election saw an unprecedented number of high-profile Aboriginal candidates run for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Many Aboriginal MPs are already making their mark on the Canadian political establishment.
Elected for his first time a Quebec Aboriginal leader David Smith was elected in the riding of Pontiac, Quebec. [emphasis added]
It's a minor thing, really, but with all the questions swirling around the legitimacy of David Smith's claim to some sort of aboriginal status, one wonders if his status as an "aboriginal leader" is in jeopardy.
Of course, the only reference to backbench MP David Smith as a leader, aboriginal or otherwise, seems to appear in this Liberal newsletter.
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Comments
Time for a DNA analysis of Smith's blood--prove or disprove his aboriginal status--enough of the lIberal lies and spin
Posted by: George at December 2, 2005 11:31 AM
Angry, I have heard nothing about the Abotech affair in the media in BC. I have read most of your reports and wonder what it takes to get the media to do a little work themselves.
Does this at least have any legs in Quebec or Ontario?
Posted by: captbob at December 2, 2005 12:30 PM
An editor at the Ottawa Citizen called my editor, Fred Ryan, of the West Quebec Post, on Tuesday, I believe.
I've been purchasing the Citizen every day but so far I haven't seen anything.
Posted by: JulieM at December 2, 2005 12:35 PM
Is this guy another one of those left wing pinkos like Ward Churchill in the US who thinks that being an Indian makes him something special in the eyes of other people!!!!!!!!!! Like the above post said-----enough of this spin from the liberals........I am sick of it
Posted by: themaj at December 2, 2005 12:53 PM
There was an article in the Droit today where Smith defends his ancestry and apparently his Metis status will be proven by the Native Alliance of Quebec which is the organization that represents Non-Status Indians and the Metis.
Posted by: at December 6, 2005 06:02 PM
 
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