Post by Donna Quixote on May 8, 2013 19:02:36 GMT -4
Tip of the hat to Wind Concerns Ontario
Michael Erskine — Manitoulin Expositor — May 7, 2013
MANITOULIN—The decision by a Gore Bay dentist to refuse service to Henry Panamick, a member of the M’Chigeeng First Nation band council, over the council’s support of wind power led to Chief Joseph Hare calling an emergency meeting of the First Nation’s governing body to investigate the incident and to decide what, if any, response was called for by the band.
Dr. Bill Studzienny has since announced that his embargo extends to both municipal and band councillors who support wind development on Manitoulin Island.
During the M’Chigeeng council meeting, Mr. Panamick described his visit to the dentist to the council, how he made an appointment, was told to come back at 2 o’clock (“I just figured they were really busy,” he said). When 2 o’clock arrived, Mr. Panamick said he was ushered into a small room by Dr. Studzienny, where the dentist informed him he would not be working on his teeth. “He said, ‘Henry I can’t work on you today’.” recalled Mr. Panamick. “I said ‘Oh, that’s alright,’ figuring it was because it was because they were too busy.” Mr. Panamick said that he and his family have been a clients of the dentist for several years. “He then said, ‘it’s on account of the windmills’,” said Mr. Panamick. “I was still waiting for the punchline.’”
But it wasn’t a joke. Mr. Panamick then said that Dr. Studzienny informed him that the dentist was so upset that his hands were shaking too bad to work on his teeth. “I thought that would be alright, there are lots of dentists around,” said Mr. Panamick. “But before I left he said to me, ‘you people are very greedy.’ Well, I have a little temper myself,” continued Mr. Panamick. “But I kept my cool. I just went out and called Joe Hare.”
Mr. Panamick said that the reference to “you people” brought him back to an incident involving a racial slur while he was playing hockey. “That kind of racism stays with you,” he said. “When he said ‘you people in West Bay are very greedy,’ he is including all of the people of our community,” said Mr. Panamick. It was clearly the choice of the phrasing that had rattled the councillor and triggered his emotional response.
M’Chigeeng Councillor Robert Beaudin then relayed to the council how he had also called the dentist and was informed that the dentist would not work on his teeth either. Mr. Beaudin said the dentist told him that he should be ashamed. “He said ‘I don’t want you as a patient. Don’t call me anymore.’ And then he hung up,” recalled Mr. Beaudin. Continue reading, here….
www.manitoulin.ca/2013/05/08/island-dentist-chooses-against-treating-first-nations-and-municipal-councillors-voting-for-wind-turbines/
Michael Erskine — Manitoulin Expositor — May 7, 2013
MANITOULIN—The decision by a Gore Bay dentist to refuse service to Henry Panamick, a member of the M’Chigeeng First Nation band council, over the council’s support of wind power led to Chief Joseph Hare calling an emergency meeting of the First Nation’s governing body to investigate the incident and to decide what, if any, response was called for by the band.
Dr. Bill Studzienny has since announced that his embargo extends to both municipal and band councillors who support wind development on Manitoulin Island.
During the M’Chigeeng council meeting, Mr. Panamick described his visit to the dentist to the council, how he made an appointment, was told to come back at 2 o’clock (“I just figured they were really busy,” he said). When 2 o’clock arrived, Mr. Panamick said he was ushered into a small room by Dr. Studzienny, where the dentist informed him he would not be working on his teeth. “He said, ‘Henry I can’t work on you today’.” recalled Mr. Panamick. “I said ‘Oh, that’s alright,’ figuring it was because it was because they were too busy.” Mr. Panamick said that he and his family have been a clients of the dentist for several years. “He then said, ‘it’s on account of the windmills’,” said Mr. Panamick. “I was still waiting for the punchline.’”
But it wasn’t a joke. Mr. Panamick then said that Dr. Studzienny informed him that the dentist was so upset that his hands were shaking too bad to work on his teeth. “I thought that would be alright, there are lots of dentists around,” said Mr. Panamick. “But before I left he said to me, ‘you people are very greedy.’ Well, I have a little temper myself,” continued Mr. Panamick. “But I kept my cool. I just went out and called Joe Hare.”
Mr. Panamick said that the reference to “you people” brought him back to an incident involving a racial slur while he was playing hockey. “That kind of racism stays with you,” he said. “When he said ‘you people in West Bay are very greedy,’ he is including all of the people of our community,” said Mr. Panamick. It was clearly the choice of the phrasing that had rattled the councillor and triggered his emotional response.
M’Chigeeng Councillor Robert Beaudin then relayed to the council how he had also called the dentist and was informed that the dentist would not work on his teeth either. Mr. Beaudin said the dentist told him that he should be ashamed. “He said ‘I don’t want you as a patient. Don’t call me anymore.’ And then he hung up,” recalled Mr. Beaudin. Continue reading, here….
www.manitoulin.ca/2013/05/08/island-dentist-chooses-against-treating-first-nations-and-municipal-councillors-voting-for-wind-turbines/