I Love It

Métis Mama is a pseudonym that we use to write. Last Friday one of our fellow bloggers posted the following on his website:

"Who was that masked woman?

A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty, "Hi Yo Silver!" The Lone Rangeress. "Hi Yo Silver, away!" With her faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rideress of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Rangeress rides again!"

http://cybersmokeblog.blogspot.com/

Pictures of my ole mule come to mind and I lost my Indian companion (he’s doing commercials for Lakota Canada) … Thank you I have enjoyed a good laugh and it inspiring – but I felt I should answer a few questions that were asked or comments that were made. I know blogging is Anonymous at best – Clare – I used to read CyberSmoke a very long time ago – when your site was one of the first – before you were sued. I always thought you were a woman – until recently. Now you wonder if I really am a woman – believe me I am not confused about my sexuality and the children that I bore are a testament to that.

I do enjoy the thought though of being the “masked rideress of the plains that led the fight for law and order in the early west.”

Who paid for my trip to Ottawa? Did I miss the flight? I must be a fly on the wall and took the cheap flight. The MNC – the MNA or any other Metis organization did not take Metis Mama to Ottawa – but maybe if they would like to – she might be interested in a visit to Shelia Fraser, Auditor General of Canada. Hmmm – any takers? David or Clem would you like me to talk to the Auditor General on behalf of the tax paying Metis citizens? Ya – probably not – guess I won’t be going to Ottawa on those Metis dollars.

As for the MNA President selecting people that were not the elected representatives for her delegates – I have not thought about it much but now that you pose the question – I think the first thing I should say is she should have. Why she didn’t? I honestly do not know for sure but my guess would be it was politically better to take people of the same thought to try and work towards the end of Clem’s reign. Obviously, it would have changed the outcome. I will also say this – over the past decade or more – there has been a history of the Board of Governors hand picking their delegates. Have any of them not been guilty of the same thing? I doubt it – I even remember when Oliver, MMF’s CEO was a voting delegate at an annual meeting – never elected but a delegate all the same. In Alberta, some of our elected delegates supported sending other Local Presidents in the past and identifying them as voting delegates because they went for the holiday and the party and it would mean these other individuals could sit at the table and participate while they drank up a storm. Some of those Local Presidents have been more responsive and representative then the regional leaders. I would also be able to provide you with the delegate list for the MNC Assembly including alternate delegates because I accessed the court mediated order that Justice Ducharme released. My copy came from Cindy Miller at MMF but I am sure that you could get it through the court process.

I am not one of the elected leaders – at this time - but who knows – maybe Metis Mama should run soon. lol But truly folks this is not about Metis Mama it is more about the number of people who have come to me and identified that we need mechanisms to communicate with our community and its’ working.