I'm really glad to be here and to be speaking about this important topic, as most of you know, but perhaps someone who is watching us and is still not a DM member, does know, from the very start of PN25, we have been involved in advocating transparency in the sense that the decisions which are made behind closed doors, which are of interest of the public, should be public. And let me remind you that one of the co-founders of DM25, which is not this idiot, but another one, as we call ourselves privately, actually is a whistleblower, you know, what Yanis Varoufakis did at the beginning, even before DM25 existed, was to record, as finance minister, the meetings of a very secretive institution of the European Union, the Eurogroup, and he leaked these recordings and all these recordings are published and they made an impact. I mean, one of the impacts is definitely a movement with more than 100,000 members of DM25, but it also launched a debate in which way the most powerful institutions of the European Union work and well, manipulate our lives. The recent leaks, the Pandora papers are definitely important. They have definitely shed light on some shady dodgy details about the powerful elites of today. But as someone who has been following leaks for, I would say, at least a decade, I must say that we have to look at the Pandora papers as part of a much bigger picture.  What is, you know, what is in common with all these leaks is, of course, a tax evasion. And honestly, we didn't really need a lesson that the most rich of the world are actually evading paying taxes and putting it on offshore islands and so on. But still, what this kind of leaks and this kind of collective investigation by journalists and whistleblowers, what it achieves is that people like us, people in governments, political parties, movements have tools to put political pressure and to change politics today. But I think it would be insufficient. It wouldn't be fair to talk about the Pandora papers without mentioning, well, someone who started actually this trend of leaking important material, whether it is war crimes, corruption, tax evasion, healing, tortures, buying surveillance. One of the first was, of course, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, who actually started precisely with this kind of method that you bring journalists on board. Like now, similar in the Pandora papers, you have The Guardian, Washington Post and many others who work together and then published at the same time and so on. This was, this is something what WikiLeaks was already doing until, of course, because of fear, corruption, some of the media turned the back to WikiLeaks and also Julian Assange and actually some of them actually participated in the character assassination. And a step further and then I conclude, I think this, the Pandora papers would be incomplete without mentioning not only WikiLeaks but also other whistleblowers, Chelsea Amenning, who revealed United States war crimes, Edward Snowden, who revealed a massive surveillance program of the United States and that so-called Deep State, but also Daniel Hale, who revealed the drone warfare of the United States. And when you put all of this together, Pandora papers, Panama papers, Paradise papers, WikiLeaks, Daniel Hale, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Amenning and many others, you will really get a picture of how our world is functioning today. And I think it's definitely not enough to just propose progressive taxation, as we can hear, tax the rich, taxes, taxes, taxes, blah, blah, blah. I think it's definitely not enough for a movement like DM25 but also for any other progressive movement. I think what, when we have this whole picture in mind, what we have to work on hard day by day, night by night, if systemic change, because taxation will definitely not solve the problem. There will always be another island where Djokanovic, Tony Blair, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or someone else can put their money there. And it's definitely not going to change the very system which is based on extraction, exploitation and expansion. I stop here and I'm looking forward to what others have to say. Thanks, Rich Kerr. Beral, Beral Madra. Thank you, Mehran. I think we should add another profile from Turkey to whistleblowers. And he's now a very famous whistleblower, but he's actually a mafia boss. Now he's living in one of the Arab countries. For two months, he sent videos to the large public through social media, of course, about the most mysterious affairs that happened in Turkey since 20 years and even before. So he really opened the Pandora box before the big Pandora box in Turkey, I think. And now the Turkish public looks at him as a hero because many, many mysterious political issues now very clear after he really, he really talked about these issues with documents actually. And I think social media played a very positive role in this issue because of Turkey since maybe, I don't know, since the 90s was very dark for us. And among other problems which are really breathtaking in Turkey, suddenly these Pandora papers came to the agenda but it was not a surprise because all the most of the cases and profiles mentioned in these documents were already a common knowledge for us. We knew who was making tax evasion or who was sending black money and it was open to most of the journalistic work. So it wasn't a surprise. And now parliament is discussing this issue true because Mr. Garopayla opened a question, he's a HDP party member and probably this week it will be discussed in the parliament. Until now we didn't hear anything from the ruling power from the government about Pandora papers. They didn't respond. Only the opposition party leaders are talking about it in the televisions and in the social media. But today probably you will know that the problem in Turkey is USD dollar and AU are really shock people because one dollar is 10 lira now. This is the problem in Turkey, not the Pandora papers. The money is already stolen and it will not come back. Thank you Beryl for giving us the perspective from Turkey. Would anyone else like to jump in to give some more context to the topic about whistleblowing in your countries? Or anyone else got any specific comments? Thinking about it? Yanis. Thank you madam. What do you do when all power is concentrated in the 1% of the population? Who control the corporations and the state? Who control our data? Who wage genocidal wars? Who ensure that the planet remains to the trajectory towards climate not emergency but catastrophe? Who will demonize anyone who threatens with the kind of information that the public could use in order to gain a little bit of autonomy from this global oligarchy? I think Julian Assange had the right answer a long time ago even before he introduced WikiLeaks which is to turn a mirror onto the face of the big brother oligarchy and to reveal their secrets. We live in a world where you, me, all of us are made of glass. We are totally transparent. The NSA, the CIA, Google, Amazon, even tiny little outfits that have the money to buy an Israeli app know everything about us and they don't even have the self-restraint to keep it from us that they know about us. Google tells me every time that, oh, by the way, last year, this very moment, you were doing this.    For that, they tortured Chelsea Manning for years on end. Absolute torture. This is going to go down in history as a liberal democracy willingly, knowingly and purposely torturing one of its citizens day in, day out. They are criminals. We're looking at you folks, the so-called liberal Democrats, parading in front of congresses and cameras and so on, speaking the language of Voltaire, of Rousseau, of John Locke, of Adam Smith, when in reality, you are nothing but outright criminals and torturers. That's what you are in the interests of creating a monopoly, not in the interests of capitalism or the market, not even that, in the interests of keeping all the power in your filthy, very few hands. This is what you've been up to. And we know that whistleblowers are going to be persecuted. And even worse than killed, what they're doing to Julian, as we speak, is worse than murder after all those years. The assassination of character.  And all that so that they wouldn't, so that they would forget that it was here that allowed them to know of the crimes perpetrated by the British government and the American government and other governments in their name in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. Of course, we are talking, we have a tendency to talk, and we over the death of Grady Beral, because we live in an imperialistic, western dominated white male imperium. So even the whistleblowers that we talk about are white and male, like Julian. That's not against Julian, but there are whistleblowers and very courageous people in Turkey, in Iraq, in Syria, in Nigeria, in Ghana, in China, in India, in Hong Kong, in Latin America, in the developed world that we don't even know about.  And we don't even know about the names. So it's important to place it in its broader context. This is war. It is not peace. It's not democracy. It's war. It's war against exorbitant power. And whistleblowers are these tiny specks of light that provide hope that this war has not been lost for humanity. In Greece recently, our party, Mera25, the M25's electoral wing, we stood by one of those whistleblowers, Maria Fimova from Malta, who was hounded all the way to Crete where she resides. The European Union itself is implicit and complicit in attempts to have her or her husband extradited, persecuted and so on. Make no mistake, Brussels, the European Union, the British government, the American government, the Greek government, the German government, the French government. You are not liberals. You are part of the problem. You are part of the oligarchy that is destroying liberty in the name of liberty, that is causing war in the name of peaceful coexistence, destroying the planet in the name of the green transition. Whistleblowers are the only hope we have that this mind-numbing asymmetry of power can be redressed. Thank you, Iannis. Okay, let me put something perhaps to all of you, if not to put in the hand up yet to add a comment. Last week, the Pandora papers were sort of knocked out of the headlines by this former product manager at Facebook who went public about how the social media giant puts profit before people and hurts children and so on in terms of psychological development. Frances Haugen is her name. There was some commentary I read on Jonathan Cook's blog that this is that she's not a real whistleblower at all and the fact that the Democratic Party is celebrating her right now and she's coming down in favour of more censorship and doesn't want to break up Facebook demonstrates that she's not a whistleblower at all. Whereas people like Manning and Snowden and Assange who challenge the very basis of how the powerful run the world, terrible things happen to them and they're thrown into dark dungeons and exiled and so on. So what would you guys say to that? Would you agree with Jonathan Cook or how would you interpret it Rosemary? I would agree with Jonathan Cook. I think it's very interesting you see it all over the place that when they finally get to expose the treatment of children in Catholic detention centres in Ireland that's when you suddenly get all the information about what really went on for years. So when you get to a tipping point you'll suddenly find there are a whole load of people who are willing to come out and tell you things you've never thought you'd hear from such people. But they do things like Haugen has done.  And she was being welcomed to the club of other people who have denounced Silicon Valley from within Silicon Valley that I'm not all saying that they're in some vast plot just to calculate how much to give us but I am saying that we're being given a sliding scale of whistleblowing now as if that were the issue and really it isn't the issue. There is an issue here of us and them the thing that everybody fears is that ordinary people will begin to understand how little they care about and what is being done to them. And that you are not allowed to say and you're not allowed to say that it's the system that's doing it. The people who say that the people get places to say that they are suffering terrible long jail sentences, deaths, torture, goodness knows what. We need to know that that is what underpins this issue because otherwise we will get confused by a lot of people who come out and give you everything that you wouldn't have thought you'd ever had here from anyone and yet they don't give you the crucial analysis and the crucial implications of that. There was a marvellous article in The Guardian explaining the sliding scale of whistleblowers on Hogan's subject and how really the most interesting ones were the ones who are unsure they wanted to participate in that particular celebrity announcement of knowledge who thought it was more important to work with the workers, to work with users, to get them to understand the issues involved. So I do think there's something we have to ask ourselves about what we do with this stuff and when we do it. Thank you Rosemary. Any other comments and Rosemary makes an important point? What do we do with this stuff when it's out there? How can these revelations make more of an impact? Johannes, fair. Thanks Madan. Thanks also for what has already been said which really speaks very close to me so I don't have to add anything. I want to emphasize that and also add one story that I wanted to share with you since DM25 has been very active on helping whistleblowers as they have already been mentioned now. I wanted to mention someone else. This person is called Esteban Servat and I'm going to read a short article or a short paragraph so I make no mistake in who he is. In March 2018 using nothing more than a Facebook page and the rudimentary website a 33-year-old Argentina American biologist named Esteban Servat launched a protest that has mobilized tens of thousands of people in Argentina. Servat published a secret Argentine government study of the environmental effects of fracking in the mountainous region of Mendoza, a report that had been provided to him by a whistleblower inside the government of President Mauricio Macri. The study revealed that the Macri administration knew about the contamination of aquifers due to fracking operations but lied to the public about the scope of the risk and this person is Esteban. How do I got to know him? He just came to one of our DSC, DM spontaneous collective, our local groups in Berlin to one of our meetings and introduced himself and told his story and it was silent afterwards in our group because we couldn't really believe what he was saying but I think it was very good for DM as an organization that he thought that we are a group where because he had to leave Argentina and seek refuge in Germany that he could come to and we tried of course to help him a little bit in our kind of little ways as a group how you can help a person and he has later on also joined our protest that we were organizing in support of Julian Assange and I think this is a way of how we all can try to help and support whistleblowers that are under attack, that are under threat from the people and power and I think our whistleblower fund supporting Maria Efimmova is of course one example but also I think everyone of us can try to help people that are attacked and that need to be protected. Something else I wanted to mention in terms of the comment on the Pandora papers I read a little bit more about topic today and I actually tried to find out so what about my country, which politician was involved, I didn't really get so far and when I was thinking and trying to go to as close as I could to the actual original data and search myself I was missing something that WikiLeaks provided to us which is full transparency of course media can make stories about it but nowadays these leaks they are not real leaks because you don't get the original documents you get what journalists write about it which is great of course summarize you know try to put a story together that's great but I think something else that we really need to emphasize always and try to put pressure on is that we also can have a look into the original documents like we published them when we published the EuroLeaks documents. Thank you Johannes and important point there the tension between just dumping everything out there or curating it I know it's something that we ran into with our EuroLeaks leak I would encourage everybody to check that out EuroLeaks.dm25.org I think it was quite an innovative use of web technologies to have a good story but also have all the content there for people to search and peruse. Anybody else have any comments? Judith, Judith Mayer. Just a quick note because Johannes said you can't actually access these leaks directly yes that's true of course but what most newspapers don't tell you and which is in fact possible is to go to the source this consortium of journalistic organization ICIJ which has been leaking the well they not the ones who leak but they have been organizing this whole thing with the Pandora papers and before the Panama papers and so on and so on and if you go to their website the ICIJ website you can in fact search a database of which politicians industrialists and other people from your country have been involved in any of these previous leaks not the Pandora leaks yet I'm hoping they were added but the previous ones have been accessed indexed by country and so on and you can see in much more detail than the newspapers are likely to cover it you can do your own research on who is involved in which way and how. Thank you Judith anyone else some discussion in our chat here about who benefits from the leaks and whether that matters any other comments from anybody yeah yeah Maya go for it Maya. Yeah well whenever we we have this topic of leaks I always think of what we can do to actually protect the whistleblowers because you have to of course see all the countries that have really really bad corruption have a problem to protect people that are leaking things that are concerning this corruption and of course we on the Balkans have have these kinds of issues all the time and now with the Pandora papers we were on the list of corrupted the you know people we had a lot of people that were revealed in the Pandora papers and some of them also the president of Montenegro that Sretko mentioned Mila Djokanovic and also our minister of finance Sini Shamali it was all over the papers for a couple of days everybody was talking about it of course all the social media were full of it like okay they're going down now we have proof there are leaks that are really our proofs of the corruption but nothing actually happened of course our president Vucic he just said that it's not true that these are not actual papers that it's always you know the opposition that is leaking these kinds of papers blah blah blah and of course all of this these fake news that these kinds of governments are always perpetuating the media so then I was thinking because of course we had the WikiLeaks on our territory we had this famous worker that some of you may be know about that leaked corruption from a big arms company factory called Krushik his name is Alexander Obradovic and he was arrested and in jail for leaking documents that were that were also where we had also the involvement of the minister of defense at that time and he was of course arrested and after a petition of 25,000 signatures he was released but of course not he never never got his job back and he's just still doesn't have a job so then I was really thinking how can we encourage someone in countries like my country and like a lot of countries on the Balkans to actually be a whistleblower when we cannot in any way protect whistleblowers and paradoxically when I was talking to Renata Avila she told me that Serbia actually has a really good whistleblower law on paper but we never used it when you see it on paper it says all of these things that of course protecting the whistleblowers but it's not it just never happens and of course we have the problem of media what how can we do all of these things in a country that doesn't have free media so I'm just interested and maybe we can talk a little bit about it how can we actually help whistleblowers all around the world but also having in mind the specific countries that these leaks are coming from thank you Maya does anyone have any concrete responses suggestions to Maya's question what can we do to support whistleblowers around the world more than what we're already doing what can the people out there do apart from just join dm25 anything any thoughts stretch go stretch go yeah I mean that there are many organizations out there which are dealing with the protection of whistleblowers besides dm25 there is courage foundation then there is the freedom of press foundation there are many others which were either started by former whistleblowers or by lawyers or by those people who actually know how to help whistleblowers unfortunately what we have seen is that those who who went into the biggest risk also had the biggest sacrifice I mean from Julian Assange to Danielle Hale now Chelsea Amendington was tortured to ever snow them who cannot return to the United States so there is always a risk involved but that's why I think you know to come back to some things people here already mentioned is that I don't think you know the basic principle of whistleblowing was nicely expressed precisely by Julian when he said that if wars can be started by lies peace can be achieved by truth well I think what we have to do is to go a step further and to actually deconstruct the fetishization of truth this is something also I think connects to what Rosemary was has been saying you know I don't think that you know as many good stories you have or journalists summarizing the leaks or even politician you have seen what happened in Czech Republic where the Prime Minister who was actually campaigning on tax reform was revealed in Pandora papers and actually lost the reelection so actually you can see a direct effect already these days but I still think this is also not enough I don't think that telling the truth or revealing the dirty secrets about tax evasion war crimes is definitely not enough look what WikiLeaks revealed since collateral murder and revealing the war crimes in Iraq or Afghanistan who ended up in prison you know what about the war criminals themselves who was in court you know who was accused who had any kind of effect because of the of the leaks they're still in power you know the same faces the same people who were saying that we have to drone or assassinate Assange some of them are actually presidents today so I think you know this brings me to a crucial conclusion you know if the truth is not enough if you are witnessing what Norm Chomsky is calling manufacturing consent and if immediately after Pandora papers we will be already occupied by another scandal or whatever then the question is you know what do we do and I think that the crucial step we can do is actually to organize and mobilize on the one hand to protect the whistleblowers themselves but without building up social movements which can use the truth which can use the information either not just in the sense of putting political pressure or asking someone to resign but in the sense of systemic change I think that's the most important thing because if just a politician resigns and then this you know former prime minister minister becomes a president and then in cells another one to become a prime minister which happens in many countries or they are like in the case of Austria now resigning but still you know governing actually from the shadow then not many things change and then in this sense that the revelations themselves become a mean actually for everything to change but everything to stay the same so I think what is what is definitely necessary is besides protecting whistleblowers is to organize and mobilize and not to fetishize truth or revelations by themselves I think the revelations are just the first step and the rest depends on us it depends on you well so it's Richko and there's a comment in the chat that relates to what you said I'm shocked that most people don't care about any of these leaks says Lalinsky by my count there's only been well I think fewer than 10 convictions resulting from the previous Panama papers and the Paradise papers so if everything's just going to stay the same what concretely can we do and Richko says develop social movements do you does anybody else have any other thoughts about this I quote the New York Times when they said about these latest revelations that it's it's wearying to hear this I mean it's unbelievable to say that about these kinds of revelations about the powerful that people are just tired already just to hear about it how do we make people care how do we connect it with impact well you know Mara if I if I can have the floor go they have a point about this you know if you keep telling people out there how you know the oligarchy they've stashed trillions and trillions away in the Cayman Islands after a while they get desensitized by this you're not offering him them a way out you're not telling them what they can do to change what it means for them to begin with so we need to do two things firstly to explain to them that their wealth is your poverty their wealth is the reason why you can't go to sleep at night with a you know with a clear head and why you know you have sleepless nights worrying about you know your health insurance worrying about you know your kids education worrying about climate change worrying and worrying about all the disasters that you worry about there is a direct link between the height of the stash of dollars and yen and euros and so on that they have put away and your woes that's the first thing that's all you know second thing is you have to build them an option and this is why let's let's let's be with the orthodox we do not need more zoom groups in the cars now we need political action and we need people to have an option when it comes to organizing their neighborhoods in their regions in their countries and their contents and also have to give them something to vote for in elections and that's what we're doing here at dm35 right and on that note perhaps amir would like to come in to talk about what we're doing in terms of transparency proposals and the the green paper that's currently making the rounds within dm25 and how people can out there out there can help contribute to it okay absolutely thanks mehran and on this on this point you know the dm25's policy positions are developed from the grassroots up and on transparency issues we in fact have a green paper and the link will be coming to the audience now on the chat we're touching everything from costing light into EU institutions looking at political party funding monitoring and disclosure of course looking at the issues related to the revolving doors of the EU commission unmasking lobbying and expert so-called expert groups that exist that push certain agendas of course and and and and we you know that policy paper is available for the members of public to view and as part of our policy update process of course we're going to be making some changes to it and if any members want to get involved please get in touch with us at volunteer at dm25.org and we'll be happy to get people who want to get active on this issue to work on the policy positions of the of the movement thanks thank you amir for detailing that any other comments thoughts anecdotes responses to anything you've heard so far no thinking okay well in that case we can wrap it up for today i think a lot has been said and all the links that we've discussed here are in the chat including to the green paper that amir just mentioned again the email address to get in touch with us and and be part of this creating these proposals that we will take to the ballot box in future elections is volunteer at dm25.org and the web address dm25.org slash join thank you very much for watching and see you again same time same place two weeks from now oh sorry i i know in the last minute i'm really sorry i thought it was an hour after that's really last minute okay so i just wrapped it up and now here's renata and we're still live and we're that's our whistleblowing expert who's who's crashed in at the last moment so that's fantastic totally unscripted renata why don't you have the floor just to discuss whistleblowing and more importantly what can be done a to protect whistleblowers and b to make sure that revelations actually have an impact because i don't think that the even the latest pandora papers leak is is connecting with people on the ground and changing actually something very perverse is happening and it is the separation of good whistleblowers with bad whistleblowers and whistleblowers that are celebrated by media and whistleblowers that are like thrown under the bus and the closer you touch the interest of empire basically the closer do you touch the really powerful the your debt your burn you know they're they're like in the case of julien sansh clear you know loud and clear to the messenger and to the message and and to the whistleblower torture and infliction of brutal treatment to some other whistleblowers i don't want to say that whistleblowing is not great it's great but it's different treatment by the forces that we that the forces that we should be paying an ion you know like the press mainstream media organizations that enable a culture of censorship and a culture of cancellation basically and and and and and that refuse to amplify very relevant messages while amplifying other messages that are convenient to the present narrative what can we do i think that the problem goes deeper and we need that first we need to go back to the very burdensome task of rescuing public public media public interest media uh second we need to rescue political the political uh and by rescuing the political i mean joining uh initiatives like the end right because the the the system is so rotten that even if the message is so loud as such as the you know everything that we saw before our eyes unfolding of the tragedy of Afghanistan uh the the reward that you get is not the Nobel Prize is uh is uh even that attempts at your assassination of the heart in the heart of london silenced by the mainstream media and demonization massive active demonization uh before the i mean using actual public media like uh institutions like the bbc so uh the message is like we really need to cultivate critical thinking get engaged in in politics and the political put public the rescue of public media and public interest media at the core of the agenda and and stop this division that some whistleblowers are nice and some whistleblowers are not because whistleblowing the act of elevating alerts about the powerful is is is uh part of our uh uh of free speech is a part of our rights and we need to defend it regardless if we like the message or we do not like the message if we like the messenger or we do not like the messenger and and we need to push uh for those uh uh not to fall into the temptation of uh getting into too much into the messenger they should be protected and celebrated because they exist as they are right but we should get into the message and what what that message is uncovering and getting into the political task of fixing uh uh the the parts of the system that are broken or simply replacing that system that is exposed by the whistleblower in the case of facebook i will say like uh it's time to get rid of in the case of uh the the massive abuse uncovered by julian i will say uh it is structural and is global and in this case in particular saving the messenger from this brutal abuse is is is now is not a matter of choice it's a matter of principle and we should all be rallying behind i i guess that the stretch cover is shared that we will be like uh in next week and the 22nd in london at the Belmarsh tribunal by the progressive international and we will tell you more about and sorry about taking too much of your time but i was at work and i really wanted to come and convey this message right that's brilliant thank you so much uh for joining that was our epilogue our encore and i will not repeat the the sign off but i i give you guys just before ranata joined but um thank you for joining and uh


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My name is Lawrence Wells and I'm from Unumagi here in Cape Breton. We're in member two First Nation. I was born here, I was brought up here. I was telling these, I was an OMAD and I traveled around when I was younger. Basically I came back. I've worked in several areas of Cape Breton here and up here in Cape Breton. Right now I'm doing addiction work for the last 15 years with native alcohol and drug abuse counseling and going on another, I don't know, 13, 14 years with the same thing but with the culture component. That's the western part, so both of us are western and cultural, so that's what we do here. I also am an elder and resident at CPU once a week. I used to go there twice a week but it's just too hard. We need more of social work here in member two. I was first introduced to the Red Rolls project going back a few years, about six or seven years ago with Laurie-Anne Solvester, the principal of the school here. My role was to educate our future youth. What I was doing was being part of the circle with the kids. I would do talking circles, storytelling and go on the field trips.  Our TPs represent grandmother's skirt. Grandmother's skirt will protect you even from your own parents and she'll spoil you. Depending on the size of the TP and the number of poles, there's a story in everything that you do when you construct the TP. Each pole has a story, each one has a direction and a virtue. The way the TP is situated, I was faced east. That's where the sun rises in the east. Of course it gives light and warmth to Mother Earth. Of course in the direction of the east it has many stories too. We have Bu West in that east which is maybe Bigfoot because it teaches honesty. We have the turtle in the same direction as one of the oldest of our ancestors. It has teachings of the truth and of course the Golden Eagle has teachings of love in that direction. Of course in the direction of the south we have Brown Bear has teachings of courage. The Buffalo has teachings of respect. Of course Wolf has teachings of humility. Of course in the west we have teachings of courage by the Black Bear and the Bald Eagle has teachings of love. Of course in the north we have teachings of the White Beaver, Gobit has teachings of wisdom. So then we have seven sacred teachings there. They all belong in the TP and that was my role with the kids. And also doing talking circles. We might have our directions in the TP and maybe we have a sacred fire. And when we have the kids together usually four days through four days we'll make a sacred fire. And that's another teaching from Tobacco and how to make the fire because I'm a fire keeper also. So my teachers come from Mi'kmaal, Mohawk, Ojibwe. So all these teachings that I've got over the years come from a mixture but they're basically all the same. So I'm a fire keeper. I'm also a lodge keeper. So I've earned that role way back when our future youth had ideations way back when. And we got together with our Scottish, our Mohawks. And they're our former enemies in history. That goes back with this another story. But in time when we know that our future youth were in trouble we had to get our bundles together in our medicines and work together to save our youth. And I think the first program we done was called Voices of Tomorrow. And we had some people come in here and help us with teachings and get our bundles back and earn our pipes and rattles and so on. So we had to deal with some of our, some programs out in Elzebuktu. We had sweat lodge ceremonies. We had feasting. We had naming ceremonies and talking circles, storytelling and so on. And this here helps our, we're helping our youth. We still do that today. We still run sweat lodges. Way back when it wasn't too much of it, maybe in the other reserves like the sweat lodges. So in order to earn the sweat lodge you have to take a four day fast without food and water in the mountains. Well here in the mountains because this is Onamagi territory. We have a lot of mountains. It's Onamagi. And the time we done it here it was in around October, November. And we had with the help of the Mohawk teachers. We all gathered and we exercised all these teachings. And the proper way to put up a teepee. It's the proper way to harvest poles, harvest sticks and use in the medicines all in together. Like when we go out towards, we're going to prepare to make the sweat lodge because it represents the sacred lodge. It represents the womb of mother. Okay, when we have tobacco and you earn tobacco or are given tobacco for what you do to help people.  And sometime we use a tamarack or depending. But I used alder at the time in that because alder is a medicine. Tobacco is a medicine. It's very strong and it's very flexible. And then you offer tobacco and talk to them because they are their life. And you talk to them to the standing ones. And because you're going to ask permission to harvest the rest of the trees. But the one you talk to you don't cut down. You're asking permission and you give something back. You give tobacco back with prayer and respect. And when we get enough, we get people together and get a red cloth and we will construct the sweat lodge together. Because we can't do it alone. You've got to have help. And that's the way our culture is. And when we make the holes in the ground, we usually make 13 holes in the ground. Everything has a story in what it represents. The circle hours represents maybe a year just like the teepee. All the virtues, the stories. And each hole you make, you offer tobacco and ask forgiveness or all my relations, respect all of our relations because you are injuring Mother Earth and offer tobacco, prayer to each hole, and so on. And when you're doing that, you teach the kids. They observe. And after you do that, we try to get everybody a red cloth. We use red cloth. I've been taught that.  And I tell them, each one you tie, say a prayer.  Maybe your mom, dad, a brother. Maybe somebody has cancer, you know. But they always find people that come to our lodges will pray for somebody else. That's how our people are. They're the last. So if I have four rounds, I always have four rounds in the sweat. And they always save the last round for the individual because they are all busy.  And they always save the last round for the individual. So when we build a lodge, put the cover on, there's a lot of protocols, a lot of preparing, you know. You gotta get fresh water. It's like we whistle. That's beaver root or muskrat root. Fresh water. Cedar doesn't grow in Cape Hornamagi. And we usually get somebody to bring it in from New Brunswick. And even the grandfathers, we have to go to Paris for them. It's called Partridge Island. And that's Gruskab's grandmother's melting pot. That's another story. And we bring the grandfathers from there and we use them in our lodge. You can get them with yellow hot. And you can use them over again. Some people use them over again. And the bundles, our pipe, our rattle, our drums, just so much. And the reason I say ours, because all these things that I fasted for maybe three days, maybe four days, our pipe, our rattle, or our medicines, they don't belong to me. They belong to all of us. Because that's our culture. We're supposed to share our medicines. And I have no ownership. There are ours to use. The project with the youths, we had tipis given to every reserve. And my role was to go on in reserves. And usually the leader of the railroad project group, they would have a leader. And they would represent the other youths. And they'd be one in each reserve. And when you teach them how to put up the tipi, because they have one in their communities, I had the pleasure of going up to each reserve and maybe spend the night. Because Laurier probably arranged a place for me to stay and have my meals. Oh, it was fun, you know. And to meet people all the time, like, it was never a stranger when you come to a community.  You know, as a member of the community there, I received my name when I went to, when I earned our lodge, when I earned our sacred fire, and I still have them teaching. So it's, I'm getting of age now that I got to pass it on. I got to pass it on to somebody. And I know a lot of youth, but they'd have to do the same as I do. They'd have to take four days fast. And they might have to have a sweat to earn their bundle. Of course, you know, I, you receive gifts all the time when you do this type of work.   You know, I have some things here I got over the years. They're little gifts. But you know, I always say, I don't own them. They belong to all of us. I pass them on. The kids, they would have a talking circle. And we have something coming up in Orish jail there in July. And last year we had it on there. And we've been to Bear River with Frank Beaus. When we go out there in that area, the kids, we tell the kids not to bring any electronics or anything, anything like that. And no junk food. And there's no electricity out there, maybe except for emergency. And then we have camps like teepees, and we have some lodges there, and a few cabins. It's very well prepared by Frank Beaus. Last few years we haven't been out there. But Frank is a very good, very good provider and storyteller and awesome person. He always has a story. When they came up there and told, we were told that nobody's allowed electronics. And I think he had some of the local boys, and they had somebody carve a phone and leave it at the doorway. Well, it's not just the door, it's just a bunch of trees. He said, just pretend to come on just in case you have a withdrawal. He's an awesome person.  And it's, I think it's about six or seven years now we're doing it. The last trip I had was just last month. But I got sick there. I had a bowel obstruction. That happened three and a half years ago. But that happened. He gets sick. So I ended up in the hospital over there. And that's where I left Jordy and Pat. I couldn't do a sweat that night thing. We just came from Parsboro with Gerald Lord. He's a geologist. He's an awesome person, a good teacher. I've known Gerald for quite a few years. He tells us a story in the history of the area where the dinosaur bones can be found and gemstones. While we were there, the kids found some amethyst and a very interesting person. And he knows of a lot of people in that area that were like Eldon George. He's a geologist. He had worked with him for years. That's a historic place. And the kids, they're just awesome. Everyone has a gift and a story. I know when you listen to them in the TP, we used to have our talking circles, opening prayers daily. This had to be daily. Before breakfast, early in the morning, before breakfast I'd have a talking circle. Just check up, see how everybody's doing. Keep in contact and keep in touch. And sometimes kids are so gifted and somebody would bring a drum. Maybe somebody has a story to tell or somebody has a song to sing or a story to tell. And it's not just... I'm not just there as an elder but as an observer. I learn so much from the kids, too. They know their behavior. And, of course, Frank would probably invite somebody that specializes in making canoes in the history, like Todd Labrador from that area. What an awesome teacher he is. He'll bring the canoe. And I think he has something in the museum. I know he has one canoe there in one of the museums there. And he does other things, too. He makes little baskets and so on with a pine pitch and the root. I knew his father way back when the Colossum was his father. He still remained with us today. He was really in touch with nature. And there was another gentleman that brought in how to make fire with just friction or flint. They're making tea, making vatic and cooking vatic or making it on the spot. He teaches like that. And then we have another gentleman by one of Frank's brothers there, Dusty. He would make... He taught us how to make flowers or the wooden flowers. And basket making. Somebody would come in and teach us how to make basket making. And a few of the elders down that way like Goal River and areas like that we had... Gee. Mrs. Morris come in. We used to have another old fellow that came in, but he passed on. There's so many, so many teachings. And youth, they're game for anything, you know? They challenge their fears. And of course I would run a sweat too. So usually we have something going on I would conduct a sweat. You have the kids help me put it together. If it's not all together, you know, the kids already know what to do if they've been there the second or third year. You know, as an addiction counselor here for the last few years, I find that kids are more comfortable with each other. On an outside community for years I felt so... There was no guidance counselors and nobody to really understand what indigenous people think. Because we're being so unique now when Aboriginal people and youth get together they like to do things together, you know?  We've got to get back some of them teachings, you know? Right now we haven't done too much of that. Listening to the elders sometimes, the first time when they were born their mother took them and put their head on Mother Earth. This is your true mother, you know? And the connection.  And seeing kids today like going back to... going to school and doing things together I find that it's growing. Even the powwow, when you go to powwows here like I remember when they had the first powwow there was a few kids there, you know? And the kids were more westernized or teasing them, making fun. Now today we're a little more thick-skinned, you know? And I see more kids today that appreciate who they are in their culture.  And it's an awesome feeling to see that because I carry a staff at the powwow for years, you know? I've seen a lot of growth, a lot of hope. When I get to college there I see a lot of kids and I listen to them and I see more on the computer, more involvement. You know I have my youngest son he just came back from Dartmouth College in Vermont I think and he came first prize.  It doesn't matter, you know? At least he's doing something challenging. Challenging himself. You've got really nobody else to challenge, you know? You know, he could be out with the other group of friends that when he was doing that he wasn't doing anything but drinking.  But when they're doing this, they're outgoing. Like, you know, I don't know how he ever does it sometime, he comes to the house and he'll say hey, I'm going out to, uh, Dartmouth College or they'll go to New Mexico. See, how is he doing it? He's got friends, they got connections. And in today's technology, all they got is a phone, you know, and they'll talk to somebody over there in a few minutes oh, we're going to a new Hampshire, just like that. You know, they come along, wait for smokes and go play. It's, uh, modern technology. God, it's, uh, it's fast.  He'll call somebody in Red Bank, one of his friends in Red Bank, Ty, Michael R. Denny, they'll call him, when are we leaving? When are we going?  He comes to the house to eat. And once in a while, maybe to sleep, you know?  So he comes over every day and says, I gotta go, you know? But kids like him, I'm not the only one that has a kid like that. I think every community has a kid like that that's outgoing, you know?  Because they look at, they notice that Western life doesn't have that much to offer as far as our culture. This is our culture. Dance, song, storytelling, field trips, harvesting, adventures, you know? This is our life. I'm sure everybody else has life. No, not just regretting, you know, not dishonoring anybody else, or anybody else's culture. We do have drums. The black man has a drum. The white man has a drum. The Irish, you know? The yellow man, you know? We all have drums. We're all connected to Mother Earth.  You're connected to the drumbeat.  And today now we have mixed marriages and so on. We have rainbow warriors out there, just like that ribbon on the table there. That's our children today. They're still our little warriors. And you do carry out our messages, our stories, our drums, our dancing, and our language. Language is pretty important. We carry the separate sacred teachings already, you know, to be properly, you know, like the four directions. Like I told you, the directions, the pole, the urges, these things. And, you know, we have elders and educators and teachers in college that, you know, compare the teachings of our elders. You know, a lot of this, a lot of what we do is already similar to what Western science has offered. Because, you know, like Albert and Merdina, they introduced two I'd seen and Professor Sherr Bartlett and CBU, taking the best of Western knowledge and the best of the elders and put it together. I think something like that would be important. You know, because we speak English today and it's just a voice we have to hold on to, you know. But, Mi'kmao too is our language here. But we can, there's other languages that we speak to, like French too, you know, a lot of our words are French. Kids today, they can, I remember one father there would have graduated, Maxwell. He's learning Chinese. I don't know why I never asked him, but that's him, you know. Oh my God, this is a challenge for him, I guess, you know. Because he's ready to study and challenge for him. Each individual challenge, I guess. I think it's up to us, you know, to encourage it also, you know. Encourage more teachers. Not to listen and listen to learn. I think it, teaches to be proud of who they are. They too are very important in our culture. They're the next future generations of our youths. Our future youths. Future youths, the next because you know they have a leader and he'll, before you know it, they're too old to stay in and somebody else comes in. And it's time for him to move on, him or her.  You know, it's just part of growing. It's growth. The stepping stone. Not a stumbling block, a stepping stone. Just a matter of how you view it. You know, I enjoy the youth. I enjoy telling stories, you know. I like to tell stories sometimes. The kids, they're my, they have so much. They're so, they're so honest with questions sometimes.  I have, my grandson is autistic. Like, I was told that he would never walk, he would never see, blah, blah, blah.   And when he had that fixed, he, you know, he comes over every day and he's running and he's hyper. When she started walking straight or running straight, he never stopped. So he's at my house every day. He's got homeschooling now. And, right now he, I take him for a ride every Sunday.  I'm still teaching this. And when he was going to the school over here, over the hill here, Shipyard Elementary, the teacher was saying that, you know, he said, he's already sharing some of the things, because he comes with me to conferences or workshops. He was teaching the kids both to smudging, you know, in the class. So, you know, but because he's artistic, we had to pull him out.   And, he can't, he can't write very well, but he has homeschooling.  And, sometime when I see him watching TV and the cartoons there, you know, I said, they're educational. They're really educational, because sometimes, oh, it's only cartoon, you know, but I'm old school, right? I didn't take time to stop and listen, just because it's a cartoon. No. But other than that, I think that was, that's important to talk to. The tools of children are, getting their education to me. And I think a lot, a lot of our own people can do this. Oh, yeah, I gotta share one other thing, too. And now we're going to, to see our Red Road Project School. And, I see one youth, he's artistic, he's able to, can't keep still, can't sit still, all the time there, he has seen, but he loves music. She's, I see him perform now, and he's a rapper, and he's always awesome. So he, it wasn't a disadvantage of being artistic. It was an advantage, he made use of the disadvantage it's supposed to be, but it wasn't. It was a gift. He's happy with what he does.


Therefore, it's time for Member Statements, the member from Sarno-Lampton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's my privilege to rise in the legislature and officially recognize November 19th to November 26th at Scottish Rite Week in Canada. The term Scottish Rite is a short form for the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada. The presence of the Scottish Rite in Canada dates back to the early days of Canada itself, with the first Scottish Rite body operative in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1868. Canada's Supreme Council office is still located in Hamilton to this day. On November 22nd, as part of Scottish Rite Week festivities, the Sarno-Logic Perfection will celebrate 50 years of Scottish Rite Masonry in the Sarno Valley at Sarno-Masonic Hall. At the heart of membership in the Scottish Rite is a commitment to charity. The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation funds many worthwhile initiatives, including eight learning centers for children with dyslexia located in London, Windsor, Halifax, Vancouver, Longton, Berry, Calgary and Edmonton. These centers provide free tutoring for children to help them overcome their reading difficulties and by training a growing cadre of highly skilled and dedicated tutors. Mr. Speaker, please join me in thanking the members of the Scottish Rite for the charitable work that they do and together let's recognize and celebrate Scottish Rite Week in Canada. Thank you. Good afternoon, Speaker. I'd like to give a shout out to the good folks who run the business improvement area in the town of Tecumseh. It was a gas last Saturday evening at the BIA's 52nd annual Christmas party. It was a wonderful evening at the Torino Plaza and Bankwood Hall. A delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings, music by stiletto fire. Dennis Maranted had his photo booth available, plenty of holiday hats, glasses, feather boas, and other fun trinkets to spice up those holiday photos. Speaker, one thing about the good folks at the Tecumseh BIA, they love to have fun. So hats off to BIA Chair Candace Dennis, treasurer Paul Bestani, Vice Chair Tony Nimi, and the Directors Joseph Frettingelly, Maureen Harris, Daniel Hofgartner, Linda Proctor, and Town Councilor Andrew Dowey. As you know, Speaker, the work behind the scenes of what pulls an organization together in Tecumseh, the BIA coordinator, is Paula Rourai and the administrative assistant is Anne Cookie-Rizio. They balance the needs of 550 members. The BIA and Town Council will be holding an annual Santa Claus Parade on Friday evening, and Speaker, if you're in the area, drop by the council chambers after the parade and meet Mr. and Mrs. Claus. They've been making a list and checking it twice, Speaker, and they'll find out.  Why, thank you. Remember from Scarborough Agent Court. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Agent Court Mall, a long-standing community fixture in my riding of Scarborough Agent Court. Located in what used to be at the historical village of Agent Court, Agent Court Mall opened on November the 23rd, 1966. Even in its 50th year, Agent Court Mall offers various programs to support our community, including the seniors program, Mr. Speaker. Over the past 50 years, Agent Court Mall has grown to over 60 diverse tenants. Many of them small businesses run by local residents. The mall management continues to support new and long-time local tenants, like the Alma Tours, a family-run businesses that has been in a mall since the day it's open in 1966. As the first indoor mall opened in the Scarborough area, Agent Court Mall has spent 50 years, not just a shopping mall, but a vital landmark, a meeting place, a community employer, and a vital hub for Scarborough Agent Court residents. Congratulations on management and tenants of Agent Court Mall for the 50th anniversary. And, Mr. Speaker, I'm looking forward to celebrating this milestone with them this Saturday, November the 26th. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the members of the member from the Elgin Middlesex London. We're about to speak here. I'm pleased to rise today to highlight National Pulmonary Hypertension Month. Pulmonary hypertension is a rare and life-threatening disease that can affect anyone regardless of their age, sex, or race. People between the ages of 20 and 60 are most affected in certain forms of pulmonary hypertension or more common in women. This chronic life-changing disease causes high blood pressure in the lungs, while, if left undetected, causes right-side heart failure. Pulmonary hypertension is difficult to diagnose, and if left undiagnosed can lead to death within two or three years. Approximately 5,000 Canadians are living with pulmonary hypertension, while as many as 10,000 may be living with this disease undiagnosed. Symptoms of pulmonary hypertension include persistent and unexplained shortness of breath, chest pain, bluish lips, hands and feet, dizziness from standing up, climbing stairs, fainting, fatigue, and swollen ankles and legs. In 1997, nine pulmonary hypertension treatments were approved in Canada, which allows for 50% of patients today to survive five years or more past initial diagnosis. Today, as we celebrate National Pulmonary Hypertension Month, we have the chance to further the discussion around pulmonary hypertension and the opportunity to ensure all Canadians have access to publicly funded treatments from the diagnosis and beyond. I'd like to take the opportunity to thank the Pulmonary Hypertension Society of Canada for their advocacy and research, and to the many caregivers and volunteers across the province who work tirelessly advocating for a cure to this terrible disease. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Once again, if we list an outside on our lawn, we have some up-cent Ontario residents who are there from across this province, particularly from Ontario. Alliance against school closures, it's a challenge that is facing each and every community across this writing, particularly mine in northern Ontario, where there are small communities that are being affected, and their identity and their hope and their services are being pulled away from them by facing the fact that their schools are going to be closed. I have a particular constituent of mine. His name is Larry Killins, who is a trustee and has been working extremely hard in order to make sure that those services are in. And I want to quote Mr. Killins, where he has said, this has nothing to do with the decisions being made by the board or administration. I have full confidence the accommodation review will be done in the least intrusive way to our schools in these recommendations. Closing schools is the last resort. I want the accommodation review to be put on hold by our board until parliamentary votes are to restore funding. And that's what they're asking for, is that's the extent that our trustees are going to towards their boards in order to ask that. But when the board is faced with provincial cuts and this particular board, 3.6 million to offset provincial reductions, that's ludicrous. How can they be put into that position in making those changes? Nobody says these decisions are easy. Nobody says that this is going to be a tough process. But take a break, step back, hold off on your decision, and let's see what we can do when we're looking at revisiting the funding model, because it's absolutely needed across this province. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I had the pleasure of joining Premier Wynn and former Premier McGinty and Mr. Nakfi at a celebration of solidarity at Congregation Meziki Hadas in Ottawa in response to the acts of hate that have happened in our community. And we are joined by many, many faith leaders and many other civic officials. And more importantly, people from all walks of life were there. It was really an incredible celebration and a show of solidarity. And I want to thank Rabbi Bolka and Rabbi Cher for welcoming us into the synagogue and hosting us for that celebration. It really was a very special event. And I want to read the prayer that Rabbi Bolk was provided to all of us there from all of the faith leaders. An expression of solidarity and gratitude. And these are the final lines. We are strong because we are resolute in our togetherness. We are even stronger because we are cooperative in our diversity. We gather to focus on the good that inheres in all of us. We gather to extol the mosaic that defines who we are. We gather to celebrate the beauty of our community. And we gather to express our gratitude for the wonderful people who comprise this great city, our nation's capital. And we gather to be thankful for living in this caring country, Canada. We resolve individually and collectively to do all within our power to assure that this is the Canada that our children and theirs will inherit. Amen. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you for the member's statements. The member from Stormont Dundas, Southland, Gary. Thank you, Speaker. It was great pride that I rise today on behalf of my residents of Stormont Dundas in Southland, Gary to recount how they came together to join other regions across the province and sending a message to this government that their current policies and education is negatively affecting rural Ontario. When the pupil accommodation review was leaked last in late September, many students and educators broke down in tears at the announcement that approximately 20 local schools may close in my writing. Our community quickly organized holding numerous large public meetings and demonstrations across the writing. Volunteers stepped up to make the required accommodation review committees and spending endless hours to meet the skewed public accommodation review guidelines. Speaker, hundreds of people from every community are gathering to fight the latest assault in rural Ontario. Last Monday over 600 attended the first review meeting and students are walking out of class in an organized protest of the clonings. And Speaker, more than two bustles from Stormont Dundas and Glengarry braved the storm yesterday and this morning to join other reasons of this province demanding that the government intervene. Speaker, I have tabled the motion and the petition asking the Minister of Education to suspend the current pupil accommodation reviews until a comprehensive review of rural education is conducted engaging all school boards, community, school communities and rural municipalities. Minister, please stand up for rural Ontario. Here, here. Thank you. Thank you for your member's status, the member from Hamilton Mountain. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Earlier this year, 17-year-old Justin Masati was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. This cancer forms unlike other cancers. It infiltrates the brain in a way that makes it extremely difficult to treat. Justin and his family were told that alternative cancer treatment might help. However, OHIP does not cover treatment for the so-called experimental treatment that Justin needed to access. As a result, the Masati's were forced to take out a $200,000 loan in order to seek alternative cancer treatment in Mexico. This treatment has actually worked and is saving Justin's life. His family urgently needs coverage to fund the continuation of his care. The Masati's have pleaded to the Premier to take action on this matter only to be met with an OHIP coverage rejection letter. Speaker, this youth has an extremely rare form of cancer that we cannot treat traditionally here in Ontario. And now what our province calls experimental treatment is saving his life. This government should be supporting this success. A life is being saved. The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care on Compassionate Grounds should commit to funding the transportation and medical costs associated with the out-of-country cancer treatment of Justin Masati. Thank you for your understanding. It's a member from Kitchener Center. Thank you, Speaker. I'd like to share with you today news of an event in Kitchener which I attended recently, the German Remembrance Service. Now tucked away in a corner of the Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener, 187 German prisoners of war have found their final resting place. These soldiers died in Canada during the First and Second World Wars. While the Second World War ended more than 70 years ago, the German Soldier Cemetery has only been in Kitchener for 40 years. Initially, these men were buried in 36 different locations across Canada, but they were relocated in the early 1970s in an attempt to bring them all together in one place. They now lie side by side with their colleagues. We gather on German Remembrance Day in Kitchener to commemorate all of the needless victims of the past through war and through suffering. On this day, mayors of Kitchener and Waterloo laid down their reside-by-side. We were joined by MPs. I was there to represent the Province of Ontario, and we also had many members of Canadian legions there, representatives of German-Canadian organizations such as clubs, associations, schools and churches, and we all were there together to remember these people who gave their lives in conflict so many years ago. It now stands as an example of how people can live peacefully together despite their different histories. And that's an important lesson for all of us to remember. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.


Depression is a serious condition that many people choose to handle on their own. Some people bottle up their emotions for years and try to remedy themselves because they fear being stigmatized or rejected. Although those with depression sometimes exhibit certain behavior patterns, depression looks and feels different for everyone. They might engage in habitual remedies. To alleviate emotional turmoil, someone with depression may resort to coping mechanisms. Remedies like listening to music, painting, going for bike rides or walks are all generally healthy if they help you cope. However, some of these strategies are unhealthy. Maladaptive daydreams and romanticizing the past are examples of unhealthy coping mechanisms, as they distract you from your life and often make you value your daydreams over reality. They can cause a behavioral addiction that leads to complete absorption in fantasy, social withdrawal and neglect of everyday life.  However, the best way is to reach out to a therapist for help.


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What is said in the 1320 Declaration of Arboroth? Have you ever read the full declaration? As the document contains so many interesting elements, I thought I would read the full declaration of Arboroth to celebrate the fact that it was written 702 years ago, on the 6th of April 1320. The declaration was a letter written to Pope John the 22nd, the head of the Catholic Church at the time. It is thought to have been written in Arboroth Abbey on behalf of the Barons of Scotland by Bernard of Kilwinning, an abbot and the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Scotland. Given that the first paragraph mentions a long list of names, I will skip over them in this reading as they won't mean much to most people and allow those interested to look into them for themselves. The declaration of Arboroth states that To the Most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine Providence, Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons, and the other Barons and free holders, and the whole community of the realm of Scotland, sent all manner of filial reverence with devout kisses on his blessed feet. To the Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients, we find that among other famous nations, our own, the Scots, have been graced with widespread renown, adjourned from Greater Sitia by way of the Terranian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Since it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons at first drove out, the Picts it utterly destroyed, and even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, it took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts, and as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner. The high qualities and merits of these people, worthy not otherwise manifest, shine forth clearly enough from this, that the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after his passion and resurrection, called them, even though settled in the utter most parts of the earth, almost the first to his most holy faith, nor did he wish them to be confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of his apostles. By calling, though second or third in rank, the most gentle Saint Andrew, the blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron forever. The most holy fathers, your predecessors, gave careful heed to these things and strengthened this same kingdom and people with many favours and numerous privileges, as being the special charge of the blessed Peter's brother. Thus our people, under the protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince, the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery, and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number, which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine, unless he had seen them with his own eyes. But from these countless evils, we have been set free by the help of him who through he afflicts, yet heals and restores, but our most tireless prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, more cheerfully toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like other Maccabees or Joshua. Him too, divine providence, the succession to his right according to our laws and customs, which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and a sense of us all have made a prince and king. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound to him by his right and by his merits, that our freedom may still be maintained, and by him come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if we should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom, subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy, and a subverter of his own right and ours, and make some other man who is well able to defend us or king, for as long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any occasions be subjected to the lordship of the English. It is in truth not for glory nor riches nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Therefore it is, reverent Father and Lord, that we beseech your holiness with our most earnest prayers and suppliant hearts, inasmuch as you will in your sincerity and goodness consider all this, that, since with him, whose vice gerent on earth you are there, is neither weighing or distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman, you will look with the eyes of a father on the troubles and provisions brought by the English upon us and upon the Church of God. May it please you to admonish and exhort the king of the English, who ought to be satisfied with what belongs to him, since England use once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling place at all, and covet nothing but our own. We are sincerely willing to do anything for him, having regard to our condition that we can to win peace for ourselves. This truly concerns you, Holy Father, since you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom being pressed inward every day. And how much it would tarnish your holiness's memory, if, which God forbid, the Church suffers a clips or scandal in any branch of it during your time, you must perceive. Then rouse the Christian princes, who for false reasons, pretend that they cannot go to the help of the Holy Land, because of wars they have on hand with their neighbours. The real reason that prevents them is that in making war on their smaller neighbours, they find a readyer advantage and weaker resistance. And how cheerfully our Lord the King and we too would go there, if the King of the English would leave us in peace, he from whom nothing is hidden well knows, and we profess and declare it to you as the vicar of Christ and to all Christendom. But if your holiness puts too much faith in the tales the English tell, and will not give sincere belief to all this, nor refrain from favouring them to our undoing, then the slaughter of bodies, the perdition of souls, and all the other misfortunes that will follow, inflicted by them on us and by us on them, will we believe be surely laid by the most high to your charge.  May the most high preserve, you to his holy church, and holiness and health for many days to come, given at the monastery of a broth in Scotland on the sixth day of the month of April and the year of grace, 1320 and the fifteenth year of the reign of our King aforesaid. What do you make of the declaration of our broth? Is it an inspired document, largely overhyped, medieval propaganda, or something else altogether? Why does it reference Greater Scythia as the origin of the Scots, and do you think it contains a revolutionary sentiment, when it states that Robert the Bruce will be removed as King of Scots, if you make Scotland subject to the King of England? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Thanks for watching, please subscribe and hit the bell to turn on notifications. You can also support this work through buymeacoffee.com and Patreon, all the links are in the description below.