Brenda: Here's another interesting fact. M. Riel was in fact elected to Parliament 3 times but never allowed to take his seat for Manitoba. The reason being his involvement with the Red River Uprising. I admit I had to look up how many times he was elected. High school history was a long time ago.  |
| Brenda: Our senate unlike yours really doesn't hold any power. They are appointed by the Prime Minister or the Governor General to be there. Sometimes like with Riel's case both chambers had to agree before it could be announced to the public. |
| Brenda: He did and any descendants he may have still. Well, it was done by a Resolution in Parliament. Which means that Parliament agreed that he was innocent after reviewing his case but they still needed the Senate to agree as well. |
| 6ixStringJack: Looks like Riel got some justice after all. That's good. What do you mean that the Feds still have to do something though? |
| Brenda: Double post here and I don't know how I did it last night. Good grief! |
| Brenda: Little mistake the lawyers didn't do it. It was just Parliament and our Senate declared him innocent in1992. But still that is something for the Feds to do.
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| Brenda: Little mistake the lawyers didn't do it. It was just Parliament and our Senate declared him innocent in1992. But still that is something for the Feds to do.
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| Brenda: Just did a quick search and Riel's conviction was overturned by Parliament in 1992 and he is officially listed as the founder of Manitoba.
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| Brenda: French names get misspelled up here all the time. Especially out west. Mind, you wouldn't believe the mess I've seen out of my last name and it is Scottish. Scot is the proper word for someone from Scotland. I don't know how many times I've had to spell it and my dad went through the same routine. That gets old real quick.
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Brenda: No worries. I'm doing some stuff for my book and I'm having trouble keeping track of my tenses.  |
| Brenda: It's over-turn in the lawyer world. In my mind and a lot of Metis and some whites don't think he should have been hung. All he wanted was to secure a place for his people along with the Cree and that broadened to other peoples. Good ideas and not that far a head of their time. Least they got to name the province, Manitoba. Which when looking it up is from the Cree word "Man-into-wahpaow. And that translates to "the narrows of the Great Spirit." Manitoba has a lot of lakes. |
| Brenda: Talk about some one you should have his license pulled for those DUIs. That's horrible. |
| Brenda: Ouch, sorry that your one buddy lost his job. That is rough when an employer won't cut you a break. You know they say. Money talks. |
| 6ixStringJack: Riel* |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh... in that 3rd post I was talking about Reil now. I just re-read it and it sounds like I was still talking about my friends and hoping they get expunged. whoops |
| 6ixStringJack: Even though he's long gone, I hope they do what's right and expunge it or whatever needs to be done to restore his name. Without knowing anything about him before you mentioned him, I'll take it on good faith that he shouldn't have gone what he went through if you're saying that he shouldn't have. Hope your research proves fruitful. |
| 6ixStringJack: He then went on to get two more DUIs without accidents and just paid those off too. It's really gross. He's paid more to get out of 3 DUI's than the cost of all my cars I've ever owned put together. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. My one buddy lost his license for a year and ended up losing his job too because he couldn't get the work exception quick enough. The other guy paid some sleazy lawyer with all the connections $5,000 and it was as if nothing happened. |
| Brenda: As too your friends that sounds about right. That happens even up here. People with money and connections get off and the innocent get their lived ruined. |
| Brenda: No, I don't think Riel would have made into schools in the US. Yeah, we were taught about both World Wars up here too and we got a little bit about Vietnam but not much as I remember. Well, in Riel's case the rich and powerful was the government so it basically means the same thing. There have been lawyers in the last 20years maybe trying to get his conviction overturned for the reasons, I stated. Ignoring their own treason laws and of course that he was Metis and an American citizen as well. I should look that up and see if they succeeded. Now, you just made me more curious. |