Via Chris (from the comments);
Your future is being planned by your betters. Your opinions or permission are not being sought and are not welcome. (“When I want your opinion I’ll tell it to you”)
“The (BC) New Democrats have released the draft of an ambitious plan, setting out 79 goals they hope to fulfil over the next five years to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (that was unanimously passed in 2019).”
“…though the government says the plan is “meant to help everyone who lives in B.C. to understand the importance of reconciliation in B.C.,” the ONLY input sought through the consultations is from First Nations and Indigenous peoples.”
“…the plan, if finalized, “commits the B.C. government to entering into agreements that give Indigenous governing bodies statutory decision-making powers over non-Indigenous people and companies and/or a veto over decision-making by other statutory decision-makers.”
“This is unfortunate……but understandable if the goal is to get the plan finalized and out the door before the rest of the B.C. public notices what is being done in its name.”
All you need to know about about indigenous leadership and environmental stewardship can be learned by driving through a reserve.
*most reserves. I’ve been through a few that aren’t just destroyed housing, to which I attribute better leadership that drags the people out of the stone/welfare age.
Abandoned housing built on flood plain?
Sounds like Roxboro in Calgary
Ok.
Please point out exactly where I can go to exercise MY indigenous rights.
If your answer is nowhere, or I cannot, then you’re a racist.
Indeed. If you were born in Canada to Canadian parents you are an indigenous Canadian.
Some indigenous are more equal than you.
Sit down, shut up, and open your wallet.
Authoritarians are grabbing power by any means “necessary” and they have bought the media to allow them to do it, it’s maddening. Indians won’t be in charge, the Chiefs will be paid off handsomely to keep their Reserves looking like 3rd world crapholes so the authoritarians in our government can leverage more money out of the public. Liberals are a disgrace and that includes the NDP. And many Conservatives.
It’s like I’ve been saying for years.
The goal by the socialists and natives, is to turn BC into a giant park/NOGO zone beyond towns and cities. Any Crown land will now be subject to Native VETO for any reason.
Bye bye logging, bye bye oil, mineral, and gas projects and exploration, bye bye to non-native tourism businesses.
Bye Bye BC
Next up, a new land tax on all homes and properties, cuz reconciliation………..just watch, it’s the ultimate goal, government absolving responsibility, and blaming the current population for the “sins” from 150 years ago.
Kate’s title is bang on – We Are All Treaty People. Government has trampled all over the culture of my ancestors too. My ancestors used to be free to settle land, educate their children without government interference, hunt & fish as needed, defend their lives and property and to pursue happiness however they wanted. Nobody cares that we’ve been stuck on this reservation for so long that we can scarcely imagine what life used to be like. Apparently we should only worry about the most recent arrivals because we’re told to believe that “indigenous” means something.
Dan, as I said to marc, indigenous means you were born here. Stupid people might think otherwise but being here means you had no choice, you are indigenous.
They’re going to need a Race Classification Board to figure out who’s entitled to give input and who’s not.
I’m a firm believer that politicians in a democracy do not have the power to enact significant changes not contained in their election platform without referendum. This should become a law for governments throughout Canada. Want to stop crazy progressives in their tracks? Do this.
This is consistent with the SCOC in its attempts at reinforcing and reversing apartheid. Instead of eliminating apartheid the governing elite are eliminating sovereignty of the crown which leads to the situation where those with 1/16 or better racial purity are the landlords of all others. The only question is how far they go before the non white (those not intellectually crippled with white guilt) react to the notion of officially becoming slaves which is consistent with Indian “law”.
So tell me again why we should include B. C. as part of an independent western Canada.
Because 90% of the geographical area would be on side with whatever “freedom” you could talk Albertans into accepting in your independent western Canada. Half of Vancouver and all of Victoria and the Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, and Nelson are the major watermelon constituencies. But you have Edmonton and I’m not sure about half of Calgary.
Because 90% of the geographical area would be on side with whatever “freedom” you could talk Albertans into accepting in your independent western Canada.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Go through downtown Fort St. John, which has changed a lot since I grew up there, and one can see that some of the fanciest and newest buildings belong to various native groups as well as the provincial government or its union.
Status Indians including Metis represent 5.9% of BC’s population (16.3% in Saskachewan, 5% in Alberta). If the west is going to separate what’s the point if you’re suggesting that the status quo apartheid goes with it. There should be no such thing as a distinct racial-legal status in a civilized nation. What exists as IR land and a proportionate (to the entire BC population) amount of Crown land preferably in traditional territories should be deeded in fee simple to each Indian according to DNA based purity thereby extinguishing all implied “rights and title”. From that point on they and their communities fall under the same laws as everyone else. If you don’t have a plan then why worry about who is included?
Should I get a native friend to send in some DNA to 23andMe to confirm my native ancestry so that I qualify for all these institutionalized racism goodies?
23andMe and all the others outsource their sample analysis to labs in China. Xi thanks you for your donation.
Man, that’s gonna be a lot of big-screen TVs.
And fancy 4 x 4 pickup trucks.
Probably shiny new hunting kit, too.
The only fight back that I can see is to have 2-3 million people in BC declare themselves to be indigenous / FN / Indian, and not back down when the gov’t of the day says “no you can’t do that”.
If you are permitted to “change your sex” you can change your race.
With the added benefit of being able to cross border hunt and fish at the same rate as the locals… Thanks SCOC!!
marc, anyone born in Canada is by definition, indigenous. That is what being indigenous means. YOU WERE FREAKING BORN HERE.
Enjoy your constitutional right to shoot spot-lit moose from the highway at midnight.
Like the elders have done since time immemorial. LOL.
This effectively destroys the resource sector in this country.
The robber barons in the government and in the bands have succeeded in lining their pockets and all people are willing to do is grumble about it.
This effectively destroys the resource sector in this country.
That was probably the objective all along. I remember the devastating effect that the Dave Barrett NDP had on the mining industry in B. C. nearly 50 years ago.
The rich get richer in Canada.
All you need to know about the so called “indigenous” people is, they are welfare addicts.
For indigenous, it’s representation without taxation. It’s tyranny for everyone else.
White privilege means never having to worry about being the target, check out Mandryk’s column “Response to Cuthand column a frightening wakeup call”