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Articles: Erik the Norseman Staff Journalist - email - bio Canadian Homelessness - A White Problem Erik the Norseman [email] [bio] Read More by Erik the Norsemen - here Recently the issue of homelessness has been prominently covered by the news media. Across Canada, people with no place to live, sleeping in doorways, alleys, parks, shantytowns and squatting in abandoned buildings is a growing problem. Two recent incidents serve to emphasise this. In Toronto, private security with full support of the local police moved in to evict squatters from a shantytown on orders of the property owners, a large retail chain. These people, some who had lived in their ramshackle tents and shacks for up to a year, were hustled off, most with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Heavy equipment was then brought in (shades of Soweto S.A. minus the gunfire) to bulldoze down their homes and few measly possessions, possessions they were not permitted to retrieve. In Vancouver, homeless people who otherwise would have been sleeping in alleys etc. occupied the long empty Woodwards building. The Provincial Government, with public money, had originally purchased

the building ten years ago for the expressed purpose of converting the building into affordable public housing. A new cash strapped Liberal government decided instead to sell the building, hence its occupation by protesting homeless people. Riot equipped police evicted these peaceful and unarmed protestors. The protest then moved onto the sidewalks outside the building. Again heavy equipment was brought in to remove tents, sleeping bags and other possessions of the homeless. It seems that governments across the country have decided that the most expedient way to deal with homelessness is to hide it. Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak. This writer watched the televised reports of these incidents with great interest. He noted that, with the exception of some Natives, the majority of these homeless people were exclusively WHITE! One should dismiss the Native presence amongst these homeless. Since most of them are Status Indians, they are by definition, not homeless. They have perfectly good homes on their Reserves, paid for courtesy of the beleaguered Canadian taxpayer, which they have chosen not to live in. If theyd rather live on the streets of major cities in order to retain their access to booze and drugs, thats their problem, let the Native community deal with them. That is what they (Native Community Organizations) are funded for. The White man has no such support. Where can the White homeless turn for help? They have no reserves to go to. They do not qualify for all the benefits to which Third World refugees are entitled, by law. With unofficial hiring quotas, there are no jobs. With Third World migrs happily snapping up all the even lowest paying jobs, there are no jobs for Whites. These White homeless people are not all alcoholic drug users. The majority were at one time good, productive citizens who, through no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times and through the ever widening cracks of a social safety net that is increasingly difficult to access. Some do have mental and/or emotional problems and should be hospitalized but are instead on the street because the medical system has been decimated to the point of impotency. There are also young disinherited Whites. No jobs for them. No opportunities for further education. No welfare because of their youth! WHAT are we doing? The disempowerment and the disenfranchisement of Whites must STOP! We, the White majority must stand up and put our government in its place. Politicians must be taught to understand that it is not their role to tell US what to do but to DO what we tell them. In a democracy the people are not subject to the will of the state, the state must represent the will of the people!

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