[McHale] was nominated by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for his work of exposing the provincial government’s tax waste in the Caledonia area. At the ceremony he received his medal from Gregory Thomas, Federal and Ottawa Director of the CTP.
I am sure that for the 60,000 ordinary and extraordinary Canadians, who received the medal, that was just another pleasant life episode with smiling officials, clapping family members and boring parties.
Not so with Gary – nothing about him is ordinary. The nomination touched off a storm of wailing and gnashing of teeth, which could be heard “from the Island to Vancouver to the Isle of Newfoundland” (as once Stompin’ Tom put it). There is nothing new about the reaction – Gary’s life resembles a detective novel continuously published in a magazine, where you anxiously wait for every new issue to see what would happen in the next chapter.
CALEDONIA - Caledonia activist Gary McHale is on a journey to the land of sweet vindication.
Monday, the Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality announced that McHale – its executive director – will receive a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal next month for outstanding service to the community.
McHale, 50, of Binbrook, will receive the medal at a luncheon in Toronto Feb. 18.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation nominated McHale late last year. The Governor-General’s office in Ottawa recently approved it.
This is making the imbeciles at the union-controlled NDP mouthpiece rabble.ca awfully mad
Blogwrath has a report on the arrests of protesters in Caledonia where the Ontario Provincial Police are only allowing people from one racial group to use a public road.
Apparently, if you stick "Occupy" in front of your name, the police let you do whatever you like.
McHale and his law-abiding group, get another form of treatment:
CAYUGA Law and order activist Gary McHale is planning another protest at the scene of a six-year-old native occupation in Caledonia after trespassing charges were dropped against the so-called Caledonia Eight for entering the property last year...
McHale, leader of Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality (CANACE), argues that the Ontario Provincial Police have practised “two-tier justice” in Caledonia during the land claims dispute by treating natives more leniently than non-natives.
Douglas Creek Estates, a former housing development, was occupied by a group from Six Nations in Feb. 2006 because they say it was being built on unsurrendered land. McHale and some of his supporters entered the site Dec. 3, 2011, but said they were not trespassing on the Ontario government-owned property because they were on a road allowance owned by Haldimand County.
“It’s completely legal,” McHale told the Dunnville Chronicle about walking on the road allowance. “They have the opportunity to prove to the public that they honour the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for all people, but I believe the OPP will find a different tactic this time … they’ll find some trick once again to target us even though we’re doing a peaceful march down a road.”
At the Hanukkah party for Blazing Car Fur, I had the privilege of meeting a few members of CANACE (Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality). These people are representatives of the citizens of Caledonia who endured an extremely difficult time during the crisis there.
I had to confess to them that I know very little about what happened during those events. My general understanding was that it was a land claims dispute between local natives and the non-native population that erupted into violence.
From what I know of their history in Canada, I tend to be a little forgiving of First Nations civil disobedience, since, as a people, they have endured generations of injustice and abuse. But speaking to intelligent, articulate advocates like Gary McHale made me realize that despite the truth of those sentiments, it was glib to apply them to innocent citizens of Caledonia whose rights were being egregiously violated, and who faced discrimination in the face of injustice by a government and police who chose to appease violent aggressors.
I made a commitment to McHale, who has become famous as the man arrested, in Canada, for the crime of waving a Canadian flag, to learn more. McHale is an inventive and passionate defender of the rights of all Canadians, regardless of race, to be able to enjoy the rights afforded by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That seems like a reasonable position to me.
He contends what amounts to gross neglect of duty by the Ontario Provincial Police during the crisis and if that was the case, then it is in the public interest to investigate this and ensure it never happens again.
The crisis has regained a lot of public attention because of Christie Blatchford's recent book, Helpless, Caledonia's nightmare of fear and anarchy and how the law failed all of us and the efforts of the radical left to silence her.
This is something that we all need to learn more about.
