Iranian media report claims Canadian (Alberta) police abduct, traffic Aboriginal children for profit - Polidicks

[Quote=The National Post][img]http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/press-tv.jpg?w=620[/img] Iran’s state-owned English-language news network is broadcasting inflammatory reports alleging that Alberta is dispatching counterterrorism squads to abduct First Nations children and sell them to adoption agencies. In a report that aired Monday, Press TV claims the province is using child protective services as a front to traffic First Nations children for monetary gain. Canada’s aboriginal advocates dismiss the story as pure fiction. “I have never heard of that — never heard of that,” said Cindy Blackstock, an associate professor at the University of Alberta and executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. With an uncharacteristic laugh, a spokeswoman with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development similarly denied the Iranian charges. In Monday’s report, headlined “Alberta takes aboriginal kids from parents at high rate,” Joshua Blakeney, Press TV’s Calgary correspondent, interviews two anonymous women, dressed in crude head coverings and interviewed in shadow. “Some upset parents allege that there is a profit motive behind what they refer to as Canada’s so-called child protective services,” Mr. Blakeney says. Over images of the Vancouver Police motorcycle drill team, Mr. Blakeney asserts the abductions are the work of INSET, a multi-agency anti-terrorism squad that was launched in Alberta last June. “This time it was the same thing … they took the children at gunpoint; treated us like terrorists … and ever since they said ‘you’re never getting your children back,’” said one of the women, who claimed her “aboriginal children” were taken by a squad of 32 heavily armed officers. Amid B-roll of kindergarten classes, waving flags and an unrelated press conference by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the report shows crayon drawings, allegedly by abducted First Nations children, with written pleas of “Help me! Now!!” “It definitely is a money-making scheme, because a lot of native children have been sold into adoption, but it is also used as an assimilation program [and] a genocidal program,” said the second woman. Born in Surrey, U.K., Mr. Blakeney came to Canada as a graduate student at the University of Lethbridge and in 2010 secured a $7,714 Province of Alberta-backed scholarship to pursue “9/11 truther” theories that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were a government conspiracy to justify the War on Terror. In addition to working as a correspondent for Press TV, Mr. Blakeney regularly contributes to Veterans Today, an online sounding board for conspiracy theorists. “Israel’s fingerprints are all over 9/11,” reads a March 2011 post by Mr. Blakeney. Mr. Blakeney did not respond to requests for an interview. Although Canada is not a traditional target of Iranian propagandists, the country has increasingly been lambasted in Iranian state media after Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird severed diplomatic ties to the country in September, calling Iran “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today.” In October, Tehran hosted a delegation of fringe Canadian aboriginal leaders including Terrance Nelson, the former chief of Manitoba’s Roseau River First Nation. In a Press TV appearance, Mr. Nelson and another former chief told Iranian interviewers that Canada was trying to “exterminate” aboriginals, citing the country’s 600 missing and murdered aboriginal women as an example. Aboriginal children are overrepresented in Canadian child-welfare programs — but the problem is usually attributed to a litany of systemic aboriginal social issues, rather than a conspiracy orchestrated by Ottawa. “The factors driving aboriginal children into care have been well-known for 15 years; it’s poverty, poor housing and substance abuse,” said Ms. Blackstock, blaming the problem on a deficit of social services available on First Nations reservations. “The federal government provides significantly less funding on reserves than for all other Canadians … but I have never in my life heard of any military undertones to this,” she said.[/quote] [url=http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/11/iranian-media-report-claims-alberta-police-abduct-traffic-aboriginal-children-for-profit/]National Post[/url] [url=http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/10/277302/canada-takes-aboriginal-kids-away/]Press TV[/url] Iranian media = comedy gold. You'd have to live on the other side of the planet to think that woman's aboriginal. "Israel’s fingerprints are all over 9/11"

what

Maybe like one guy might have done that, not the entire Albertan police.

They're about 60 years too late to that news story, the residential school system has been shut down for a while.

Damn Canadians

Why are they now attacking Canada? I thought people loved Canadians. Must be because of our PM's personal agenda, he removed a Iranian embassy based on non-existent evidence and is now sucking up to Israel. Sucks to be a propaganda target.

I've lived in Northern Alberta next to MANY Aboriginal Towns, there's no such thing

[quote]Press TV claims the province is using child protective services as a front to traffic First Nations children for monetary gain.[/quote] Okay, I know we here in Canada have a bad reputation with the Aboriginals, but this is silly. Why does Alberta need extra money anyway? We have a whole bunch of oil sand operations here. Edited: [quote] Mr. Nelson and another former chief told Iranian interviewers that Canada was trying to “exterminate” aboriginals, citing the country’s 600 missing and murdered aboriginal women as an example.[/quote] hahahaha what

Wow, can't the Iranians keep their idiotic conspiracy theories to themselves? I'm tired of hearing all the bullshit that comes from their government.

[QUOTE=FetchingToaster;38803341]Okay, I know we here in Canada have a bad reputation with the Aboriginals, but this is silly. Why does Alberta need extra money anyway? We have a whole bunch of oil sand operations here. Edited: hahahaha what[/QUOTE] the aboriginals ARE THE OIL!

[QUOTE=Untouch;38804010]the aboriginals ARE THE OIL![/QUOTE] oh shit you found out THE JIG IS UP

[QUOTE=FetchingToaster;38804095]oh shit you found out THE JIG IS UP[/QUOTE] [I]And suddenly the whole country of Canada, Or SS Eh as it was really known, lifted off the ground. Unknown to the world, The Canadian government had transformed the whole country into a massive starship. It flew to orbit the moon and attained it's role as prime nation of planet Earth. Or Eh?rth as it is now known -Extract from Wikipedia: Ascent of SS Eh, 2015[/I]