Not only are they demanding payment for any future infrastructure projects, but nearly a billion dollars up front just to figure out what those payments might be. They’re like a contractor who charges you to develop an estimate or a realtor who demands a commission prior to a sale.
In her opening remarks, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak pointed to provincial bills that also seek to fast-track major projects. She praised chiefs in B.C., Quebec and Alberta for standing up for their rights and territories by pushing back against provincial governments.
The assembly recently put forth a pre-budget submission to the federal government recommending $800 million over the next two years to support a First Nations review of national interest projects.
Most of that $800 million will go to non-FN consultants (aka the white man).
Would drinking water projects qualify?
Better delay them all so they can be properly studied.
Man, you’ve got to hand it to the Indians.
Asking for grift money to figure out how much grift money they’re going to get is brilliant.
Ohhhhhhhh mommmaaaa … we all live on STOLEN land. Give it all back!
My own little CA town has “acknowledged” we are living on “unceded” MiWok lands. Ohhhhhhhhh mommmaaaaaaaa.
https://www.lovelafayette.org/why-lafayette/land-acknowledgment
No, we haven’t changed the signs yet … but we added some indecipherable MiWok word for mountain god or something.
Pssst … the picture of the MiWoks at the bottom of the page? Yeah, NOBODY in Lafayette “looks like them”. NOBODY. Anyone who DID “look like that” … is unemployable and couldn’t earn the $450k/yr. it takes to live in this town. Now … if the MiWoks started demanding MORE than mush headed land acknowledgments… they might just start owning some of our multi-million dollar homes?
Treaties are between two parties, I think someone needs to start asking why no one calls out the FN for stepping on our rights.