Robert Wells/Author of Wawahte

At this time, the Idle No More movement produces upsurges and swirls in mutually supportive, but not integrated, activities across Canada, in support of a changed relationship with Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Chiefs demand that Canada (the Crown) live up to Treaty promises. The Canadian government and First Nations quarrel about meetings, meeting agendas, and attendance, and engage in publicity antics, preposterous behavior, and witch-hunts, and talk about perceptions from times past. All the while, many of the people in the north live in less than desirable conditions.