What is more likely is we will just continually shell out endless billions of dollars to indigenous groups, lose countless resource development opportunities, and have our property rights continually eroded.
We may be paying more for power because of this nonsense now.
DRIPA is the most idiotic case. It’s a ticket to free everything, control everything, block everything…
I suppose we ultimately have the UN to thank for that gem of anti democratic legislation.
Well, the UN came up with the idea but it was our dear leader Eby who put it in a law
Trudeau fully endorsed it and Eby said “hold my beer”.
Were you born in Canada?
If so you meet the definition of indigenous. Conversely those claiming to be indigenous have ancestors that migrated from Asia.
Way upthread I made a short, snarky comment. To wit, bad ideas hurt people, and if enough people embrace a bad idea, a whole society is harmed. When the logical conclusion of a widely-embraced bad idea comes to fruition, the people who embraced it will never admit they were wrong.
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“Previous Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his then attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, issued directives to federal lawyers in 2018 that forbid them from making the argument that private property extinguishes Aboriginal title, in the name of advanceing Indigenous reconciliation efforts.
Because of that directive, the federal government in 2018 withdrew its extinguishment argument in the Cowichan Nation case. The B.C. government also did not argue that critical point, saying it was federal responsibility. Despite this, the province issued a nearly identical policy directive under then-Attorney General David Eby, also forbidding use of extinguishment as “not consistent with the honour of the Crown or with the UN Declaration [on the Rights of Indisgenous Peoples].”
The attorney general in question is now our premier who said he “would go to the wall” to protect private property rights.
So just ignoring the court?
Ha, I was just reading this.
She takes after her idol, Trump.
In case you missed it - there is a committee that recommends whether a referendum question should be included, and what the question should be. The UCPs put out a press release saying what the question would be while the committee was still meeting, then retracted the press release, then released it again after the committee was done.
Totallybabove board…
No question. She is talking about “Trudeau appointed judges”, and end running the constitution.
In fairness, there is plenty to criticize about Trudeau’s judicial appointments. But yes, she does speak right from the same MAGA playbook, which really annoys me.
Unfortunately “Eastern European/Mediterranean mutt” does not fit in to one of the roughly 600 first nations recognized in Canada.
I said indigenous not First nation
So first nation is indigenous, second nation born in Canada, third nation born out of Canada, like me. Presumably one has fewer and fewer rights the lower you on this scale. Kinda like cast system.
As for Alberta, same as for Quebec: separate if you want, as long as they behave and are treated as any other foreign country: border control, visa, separate currency, print you own passport, apply for working visa, got jackshit from the federal government. Don’t play independent when it suits you but quasi Canada when you need something. Indians are already doing it.
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