Geoffrey Moyse- British Columbia could disappear under a sea of Aboriginal title
Below is the sixth of several outstanding opinion pieces about indigenous land claim issues in British Columbia that will be posted without a paywall over the next few weeks.
All are written by Geoffrey S. Moyse, K.C., a retired senior lawyer who served as legal counsel to the Province of B.C., advising six successive governments on aboriginal law matters over more than 30 years.
His writings rebut the current NDP provincial government’s indigenous land ownership and use policies.
BC to First Nations, Quebec to the French; call it a day.
Field of Dreams: “Offer it, and they will Demand”.
I knew BC was in trouble when I read that four thirds of the province is claimed by First Nations.
With overlapping claims…
Hongcouver property owners might get more than a little upset after they went through all the trouble of ripping off the communists at their own game and investing in a so-called safe space…
The asians may ride to the rescue of the stupid guilty whites, or they’ll jump past that and simply take advantage of the ‘indigenous’ winners themselves and cut out the stupid…
For 20 years, the goal has always appeared to be to turn BC into a giant park, with NOTHING allowed to happen outside of cities and towns.
No fishing.
No hunting.
No logging.
No mining.
No drilling.
No industry whatsoever.
Because, ABOs.
If anything does get allowed, they want their VIG which only acts as a deterrent, negating any profitability of any enterprise.
Hence, the desire of the ENDP to gladly give it all away. That’s reason enough to toss them out of office, albeit, there are a a hundred other reasons.
The natives can’t even run their own affairs, what with unelected and ‘elected’ councils, and, having to beg to whitey gubmint when they can’t control their own drug addicted population.
That’s NOT who you cede societal decisions and authority to!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-first-nations-declare-state-of-emergency-over-opioid-crisis-and/
There will be lots of hunting and fishing, and other stuff too, but only by the privileged race.
What? Indian casinos haven’t been profitable-enough to supply big screen TV’s for the WHOLE tribe?
When they come for MY private property … I’ll pay them in wampum. It’s the indigenous thing to do … right?
Go away. You are boring us to death c
Good thing I don’t care if you’re bored
Who is that idiot? There seem to more of them popping up here.
Whoever they are, they seem… oh what’s the word I’m looking for – bored. I can only hope this is livening things up for them.
Vancouver Island would certainly be a nice scalp, given that the island is chockfull of smug, preachy, NDP voting, retired “educators” who have more money than God thanks to taxpayer funded pensions.
Start walking the talk, Trotsky.
Won’t happen but it’s nice to dream.
about 3/4 of the ways down the page:
“If the Trudeau government agrees to this demand, the current constitutional problem with BC’s legislation will be fixed. Aboriginal title (ownership) will cover Haida Gwaii permanently and cannot be altered or extinguished by anyone, unless there is a change to the Canadian constitution.”
“But what about the “agenda” for the rest of British Columbia’s public land base? When “woke” governments collude, virtually anything becomes possible. They could collectively transform all of British Columbia’s public Crown lands into Aboriginal title lands under total Aboriginal ownership and control, cementing this change permanently in the constitution.”
Ask yourself what sort of bullshit country would allow agreements between different levels of gov’t to be so sacred as to be above legislative change, without a change to the constitution, and at that, a constitution which has been shown to be virtually unchangeable, so it’s stuck there until the country actually falls apart.
Ask yourself, when the western provinces will separate from the madness of tier 2 Canada.
Racism is cool again.
Aboriginal title was extinguished prior to BC joining Canada. The Proclamation of 1763 didn’t apply to the Pacific coast or Rupertsland or Quebec for that matter. About 50 years ago some Supreme Court morons retroactively changed this because they thought it wasn’t fair. What they ignored was, had the federal government anticipated existing aboriginal title, they would have signed treaties long ago when land was worthless.
Give them nothing. They were primitive tribesmen who wandered all over the place.
If this nonsense is ever implemented, how long will it be until the tribes start wrangling among themselves in endless land title disputes? It’s not like there was ever a tribe called “The Indians” who owned all of BC. Pre-settlement, they had no clear idea which tribe owned what land and certainly no mechanism for determining that aside from outright war. This won’t end well.