No ka poʻe ma ʻaneʻi ma US, ʻo Thompson, Kanada, a ʻo kāna hakakā ʻana me ka pilikua mining Brazilian Vale me he mea lā mamao loa.
ʻAʻole ia.
(Mai hilahila inā pono ʻoe he palapala ʻāina e ʻike iā Thompson, akā naʻe - e hoʻopiʻi i ka media US, e haʻi wale iā ʻoe e pili ana i ka poʻe Kanada inā pili lākou iā Justin Bieber.)
I kēia manawa ke hakakā nei ʻo Thompson i kahi kaua mua i loko o ke kaua e ʻā ana no nā makahiki he 30 i hala iho nei - ke kaua honua o ka poʻe waiwai o ka honua ma ka papa waena. He kaua kēia i ʻike maopopo ʻia e ka poʻe o Flint a me Michigan a pau. He kaua e hele nei i kēia manawa ma Wisconsin. A he kaua ia kahi i lanakila ai ka papa waena ma ʻAigupita. (ʻAʻole paha ʻoe i ʻike - no ka mea, ua paʻa loa ka media US e haʻi iā ʻoe e pili ana iā Justin Bieber - ʻo Gamal Mubarak, ke keiki a ka dictator o ʻAigupita a me kāna mea i koho ʻia, i hana no nā makahiki no Bank of America.)
Eia ka mea e hana nei ma Thompson, a me ke kumu o ia mea nui:
ʻAʻole like ʻo Canada me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa - ʻo ia ka ʻāina mua o ka honua, kahi i manaʻo ʻia e noho ai nā hui e pono ai ka poʻe, ʻaʻole ke ʻano ʻē aʻe. ʻAʻole loaʻa iā lākou ka mālama olakino āpau - loaʻa iā lākou kekahi mea i kapa ʻia ʻo Investment Canada Act, e ʻōlelo ana i nā multinationals e like me Vale hiki ke hoʻopukapuka kālā i nā ʻoihana Kanada inā e pōmaikaʻi ʻo ia iā Kanada āpau. ʻIke wau, pupule!
ʻO ka mina ma Thompson i hoʻokele mua ʻia e Inco, kahi hui Kanada i hana kuʻikahi me nā uniona a hoʻokaʻawale i ka waiwai. I ka wā i kūʻai ai ʻo Vale iā Inco i ka makahiki 2006, ua kau inoa lākou i kahi kuʻikahi me ke aupuni e hoʻonohonoho ana i nā mea a lākou e hana ai e pōmaikaʻi ai ka poʻe Kanada.
Ma hope koke iho, ua uhaki ʻo Vale i ka ʻaelike a hele i ka hoʻouka kaua - koi ʻia i nā miners ma Sudbury, Ontario ma ka hahau lōʻihi loa i ko lākou mōʻaukala. A i kēia manawa ma Thompson ke hoʻāʻo nei lākou e pani i ka hana hoʻoheheʻe ʻana a me ka hoʻomaʻemaʻe ʻana i lilo ai ke kūlanakauhale i kumu waiwai nui o ka ʻāina. I kēia manawa, ʻo ke aupuni Conservative o Stephen Harper - e noʻonoʻo iā George W. Bush me kahi leo Kanada - ʻoiaʻiʻo mea kōkua Hana ʻo Vale i kēia i ko lākou mau hoa kamaʻāina, me kahi hōʻaiʻē aupuni he $1 biliona nui a Vale e hoʻohana nei e hoʻoneʻe i nā hana mai Thompson. Eia kekahi, ʻo Blackrock ka mea hoʻopukapuka ʻoihana nui loa ma Vale, kahi ʻoihana hoʻopukapuka kālā a nona kekahi o nā panakō i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo ʻAmelika ... me ka Bank of America.
No laila e pili ana kēia i hoʻokahi mea a hoʻokahi wale nō: pepehi i ka ʻaelike pilikanaka o Kanada. ʻAʻole makemake ʻo Vale a me ke aupuni Harper i ka wā e hiki mai ana kahi e lilo ai ʻo Brazil e like me Kanada. Akā, makemake lākou i ka wā e hiki mai ana i lilo ʻo Canada i Brazil. ʻAʻole ʻo Kanada wale nō: ʻo ka hoʻolālā ʻana o nā hui ʻo ia ka Honua ʻEkolu e lilo i Honua Hoʻokahi.
ʻO ia ke kumu e pono ai nā kānaka ma nā wahi a pau e kākoʻo iā Thompson. ʻOiai ʻo Niki Ashton - ka MP nāna e kū nei iā Thompson a ʻo ka lua o ka wahine ʻōpio loa i koho ʻia i ka Pāremata Kanada - wahi a: "ʻO Flint i nehinei, ʻo mākou a me Wisconsin i kēia lā, a ʻapōpō e lilo ia i kēlā me kēia kanaka."
A ʻo ia ke kumu e haʻaheo ai au e hōʻike iā Ashton a me nā leo o ka poʻe o Thompson ma kaʻu pūnaewele. A no laila ke noi aku nei au iā ʻoe e nānā i kā lākou wikiō ikaika (lalo), lohe i ko lakou moʻolelo, a kaʻana like i nā mea a pau āu i ʻike ai.
Ke kū nei nā kānaka maʻamau o ka honua i kēia manawa a ʻōlelo "ʻAʻole!" i ka wā e hiki mai ana ua hoʻolālā lākou no mākou. Ua lanakila mākou ma ʻAigupita. Ke ala aʻe nei mākou a hakakā hou ma waena o US. E kū pū kākou me Thompson a e hoʻolilo iā ia i wahi e hoʻohuli ai i ke au i kēia kaua weliweli. E like me kā Kamal Abbas, kekahi o nā alakaʻi uniona koʻikoʻi o ʻAigupita, i ʻōlelo ai ma a leka uila iā Wisconsin: "Ke kū nei mākou me ʻoe, e like me kou kū pū me mākou."
(He mea hūnā i ka poʻe o Thompson: ʻaʻole mākou e ʻōlelo e kōkua wale nā ʻAmelika inā ʻoe e hoʻohiki e hoʻolauna iā mākou iā Justin Bieber. Ke ʻōlelo wale nei mākou, ʻike ʻoe, ʻaʻole hiki ke hōʻeha.)
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