U of R professor Jim Warren asks about freezing in the dark, 2023 Version. How many do Canadians do Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault anticipate the “just transition” will kill?
Also, on Friday a Wisconsin First Nation (what they call “tribe”) was successful in getting a judge to punt Enbridge Line 5 off their land, but gave them three years to do so. Given how long it takes to get environmental approval for anything pipeline, that could be a tall order. But the fact this order was given in the first place could be an enormous precedent in the US. If tribes can retroactively punt mainline pipelines off their land, there will be utter chaos. Think Standing Rock, times 100.
Can Canada survive until 2025 with Trudeau and his monetary trough pigs still refusing to leave office and sucking up even more billions on the taxpayers until then?
Good question. Their most recent hand out was $10 billion. How many bands are there? At that rate the credit line will run out
Why do the automobile driving, cell phone using descendants of America’s stone age peoples still enjoy special status? Is there no expiry to the “ownership” farce that liberals forced on the rest of us? Does a trace of Neanderthal genetics trump all other “first nations” claims?
Apparently it does. Some locals here in Vonda are whiter than Elizabeth Warren but they get their Native status bennies and make sure that everyone knows it. Seriously: blonde, blue eyes, LL Bean clothes and Lee Valley garden tools in the back of their Hyundai Santa Cruz – and I’m the white interloper trespassing on their land.
In the USA, the US Army Corps revoked a permit for mining … “saying the permit did not comply with the water quality standards set by a sovereign downstream tribe”.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/us-army-corps-revokes-permit-for-minnesota-mine-cites-threat-to-downstream-tribe-s-water-standards/ar-AA1cdzib?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ce6e21e7c2cb46f9ae1bc28536ff8630&ei=110
Interesting that First Nations are now considered sovereign tribes, likely to be regulated only by the Federal Government and/or international organizations. This is a great way to get around more local legislation (states and provinces). The claim is that individual states or provinces are violating international law, even in areas within their own jurisdiction.
If “Indian lands” are sovereign nations, isn’t it time to cut off foreign aid, including health care and education.
It is actually improper for a convict to run a ministry of anything.
I foresee the day governments/judiciary will use aboriginal treaty rights as a trump card to restrict the way farmers conduct their business.
This is just a start.
https://farmtario.com/news/omafra-addresses-aboriginal-and-treaty-rights-within-trespass-act-for-farmers/
Today’s “I have a right to be on your land” is tomorrow’s “Your fertilizer effed up the river where I fish”.
Something about Inmates and Asylums, maybe?
But then we voted for those that are caving to the self-annointed Inmates with the chickens stretched over their heads, so who to blame?
From the linked article, “The data showed that a temperature drop of 1o C (1.8o F) over a period of 21 days was associated with a 2.2% increase in total deaths.”
Cold kills more quickly than heat. High energy prices are a direct cause of underheated homes in winter. The federal government is intentionally increasing home heating prices which will cause cold related deaths.
We hear a lot about the social cost of carbon dioxide and fossil fuels but what about the social cost of the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government carbon tax policies? Not a word.
Here are more issues outlined in an excellent National Post article by Jamie Sarkonak.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-more-skepticism-needed-at-land-back-committee
“The problem is not the committee’s study itself, but the way the committee is going about the study. Parliamentary committees are supposed to be better than courts for this kind of work because they can sample a much broader range of voices than a judge, who is restricted to hearing the parties — but this particular committee is only talking to one side. This study has been even more narrow than what we’d see before a court dispute over a land claim.”
“Pointed questions about the degree of land restitution desired by the witnesses aren’t being asked, either. How much land needs to be given away to satisfy everyone? How many jurisdictional powers are being asked for? Is true sovereignty the goal? Is Canadian sovereignty legitimate? Is it just Crown lands that are wanted, or are private lands sought, too? These are questions that should be asked to those testifying at committee — and no one is asking them.”
Jamie Sarkonak is likely their best columnist and she is asking the tough questions.
Enbridge screwed up, because there was a pre-existing permit for line 5 across those lands that they let lapse in 2013.
The judge also screwed up, because he took a potential scenario ( a pipeline rupture) as inevitable.
To be fair, when engineering safety systems, we always presume the system will fail. If a pipeline is in place and operating for a very long time, the probability of that pipeline failing becomes 100%. Systems always fail, without exception.
Re the NP linked article
This is a result of the politically unfettered legacy of the Indian act and related apartheid, grievance industry, and the SCOC in reinforcing and expanding expectations of indigenous sovereignty over all crown land. The situation is now so conflated with group and positive rights (mush) and legal profession expansion that perhaps signing on to indigenous claims on all land would be a better alternative to an endlessly “negotiated” status quo. Ending Canada would resolve so much more than just the grievance industry. 95% of former Canadians with less than 1/16 racial purity would be squatters on land “owned” by a racial legacy now without any income nor protection from any legal system. No more PM Trudeau, taxes, regulations, gun control, universities, laws, public sector, CBC,…………
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But I bet it felt good posting it 🙂
60,000 Europeans died of freezing cold indoor temps this past winter? I’m just curious how many of these “excess” deaths were counted to COVID.
Indian casinos not making enough money in Northern Wisconsin. Gamblers have too many options.
They should consider smoke shacks!