The owner of a major industrial park in Richmond, whose land is impacted by the ruling, agreed on the need for a reference question.
“Our properties are subject to long-term leases to both Canadian and international tenants engaging in commercial activities vital to international trade and the economy of Canada,” Montrose CEO Ken Low wrote in his own letter.
“We cannot face this uncertainty for years as appeals wind their way through the system. Hundreds work on our site every day.”
Montrose Properties tenants include a Coca Cola bottling plant, a Canadian Tire Distribution Centre and a Wayfair warehouse. It owns 477 acres of the approximately 1,846 acres the Cowichan Nation argues should fall under its Aboriginal title.
The City of Richmond has delivered letters to dozens of other businesses and private landowners in the area, urging them to attend an information session at city hall at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28.
The letter came with an attached briefing note for residents, outlining how the City of Richmond was the only party in the 11-year case that argued private land ownership extinguishes Aboriginal title. Both the federal and provincial governments failed to make that argument due to litigation directives focused on reconciliation and UNDRIP.
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I have yet to see a deed or a sales slip from any Indian for their claim to land that they pushed others off of.
Just because some distant relative trespassed on some one else’s land does not give him property rights.
In the US, the practice of negotiating treaties with Native American tribes ended in 1871.
In Canada, it is the wound that keeps bleeding.
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This ruling let the NDP agenda out of the bag and now Eby is “appealing”. This started when Harcourt’s incoming NDP send the d-team in to deliberately lose the appeal of BC Chief Justice Allen McEachern’s ruling of the extinguishment of aboriginal title. The NDP wanted to be the do-gooding empaths that made it “all right” and instead set BC up to become under collective title to the Chiefs ruling over the 1% of BC residents living on the reserves (without any property rights and dependent on taxpayers). The backlash has just begun to get interesting.
The post talks about the need of a reference to the federal Supreme Court. The problem is that the SCOC is just as politically extremist as the BC Superior Court Judge that stripped BC property owners of their rights. The SCOC would enjoy sticking it to ordinary Canadians.
Yes, but when it gets to the SCOC they will nationalize the absurdity thereby starting the revolution.
The SCOC will do exactly as instructed by the PMO, it is just another branch of the permanent state/Liberal party.
“Montrose Properties tenants include a Coca Cola bottling plant, a Canadian Tire Distribution Centre and a Wayfair warehouse. It owns 477 acres of the approximately 1,846 acres the Cowichan Nation argues should fall under its Aboriginal title.”
If every single business located on disputed land pulled up stakes and left Canada for some other country more friendly to their business, it would put a quick end to this stupidity.
In case you barely noticed it, like me … we had a “No Kings” rally this past weekend. What are Indian Chiefs, if not “Kings” by any other name? Why are Indian Kings being granted unlimited POWER by a Parliamentary Political system? By the Courts?
It’s time for Canada to have a “No Chiefs” rally and political movement.
The problem is Canada has effectively ceded sovereignity to the UN with its adhesion to UNDRIP. Post-national indeed.
Hats off to John Chittick for noting where this started. Native title was declared extinguished in what was considered a resounding loss for the Nisga Wetsuweten and the lawyers of the day said it would be hard to overturn. Then along came the Harcourt NDP to argue, essentially that this was all a big mistake, and that not only should title exist but the native oral traditions that Allen McEachern considered unreliable hearsay should now be given full evidentiary value. That led to Delgamuukh where native title was restored but the nature of title was unresolved. Fast forward to today where even Treaty Lands where title was given up by treaty have been looked at in BC and the NDP agreed that they violated Treaty 8, which covers much of northern Alberta as well, and after a predictable loss just under one billion dollars is to be doled out. Three BC Treaty 8 signatories have not yet settled. The fact that Treaty lands were involved in BC should concern all Canadians since this could spread everywhere thanks to the feckless NDP. In any event the NDP seems to be playing to their urban voter base and suddenly a hinterland problem has erupted in their home bastion. Imagine that.
“Both the federal and provincial governments failed to make that argument due to litigation directives focused on reconciliation and UNDRIP.”
Another failure of Canadian governments. This woke BS has gone way too far.
A failure of feckless voters looking for nothing but free stuff.
The day this ends is when a tribal representative sends an eviction notice to the current GG telling her she’s on stolen land.
I’m just wondering if you have to be one of the “we were here first” people to get that actioned.
The court was just as simple minded as the idea of Aboriginal Title. It is my understanding that the original native people claimed that no one could lay claim to the land. This ended when they discovered they make things up on the fly (native oral history) and then use that to con the white man into giving up something of value to them. In 1997, there was a front page of The Province, that showed overlapping land claims totalling about 120% of the province. It was a joke then and in my opinion a joke now.
They have about as much claim to any land as I do to land my relatives were forced off of in Russia one hundred years ago.
Unfortunately, the white politicians and the appointed judges in this country have zero sense and are destroying this country on all fronts. The latest is immigration.
It’s not “zero sense” that politicians and judges have. It’s an agenda, purposeful and direct. When all mistakes go one direction it’s a pattern; a plan.
The weakness of mercy has put us here. Mercy, in of itself isn’t bad. Applying mercy to those who don’t deserve it and who abuse it, is a profound weakness that explains why we can’t have nice things.
Trick or Treaty?
When is a roadblock not a roadblock?
When it’s the RCMP turning a blind eye to more FN land shenanigans.
Crown land being treated as treaty land.
https://winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba-wildlife-federation-launches-court-challenge-over-highway-blockade-and-hunting-restrictions?itm_source=index
The plot thickens.
Which of the “We were here first,except for the people we butchered” folk will establish dominance?
Whose slaves will get historical repatriations?
Which set of “laws” shall rule?
I kind of like the old rules,but I can adapt.
If the new rules are to be the “First nations” rules then let the games begin.
I wants?
Are they weak?
Me takes..
Warlords to the front and centre.
Might is right?
So we are going from a High Trust Society straight to Primitive and Tribal..
Progress at last.?
Funny how long we tolerate these parasites who openly boast of how they hate us and the civil society we built.
They being the NDP,Liberals and Progressive Conservatives,otherwise to be known as The Parasitic Overload.
Ever seeking to divide and play one part of society against another in their lust for power.
Not one statesman amongst them.
But what a Uni-Party.
As for our poor brown persons,they are being used.
The Canadian Apartheid System is one of the longest running most loathsome racist government programs in history.
And thanks to the monsterous lie of “Genocide” “Murdered Buried Children ” in Government care…The Grievance industry is self destructing.
All who have embraced this utter falsehood and attempted to use it to further their own agenda are now exposed …As the liars they be.
Faster harder.
Can Ahh Duh is done.
No individual rights nor freedoms.
No property rights.
And no equality before the law.
In fact no rule of law at all now,for government believes they can retroactively rule.
making property ,purchased legally and in good faith.. now criminal to own..
or in this case, “Not yours,even though you paid for it and the government signed off on the land titles”..
When do we recognize what our “helpers” are shouting?
They hate us and want us dead..
Actions are the only truth we have.
When dealing this liars,once you recognize them,words mean nothing.
Whatever the “Stated intent” may be,you know it is a lie.
The results of their laws and actions is the real truth.
So what results here?
Total breakdown of trust.
Destruction of confidence and wealth.
Exactly what the manipulators of our state of thuggery desire.
Better to rule in Hell than govern in paradise!
Y’all need to start a new war against the tribes to establish domain by conquest, since your courts have now abandoned the old established domain.
Yes, it might appear that the tribes have decided the war is back on, since the other way of resolving disputes has been rendered moot.
Future funny is that *when* Islam comes to dominate, the tribes, those that may somehow still exist (where drinking water is foul), will long for the days of the so-called evil “white man” and his lenient ways.
Nope. The males will all buy in, not least for the despotic control over their women.
Hmmm… Wonder what political partys Ken Low voted for?
How long until the entire province is re-named as something utterly unpronounceable, and beneath the signs at the border hangs a second placard pronouncing “Now Under New Ownership”?
I’m curious. As they kick you off your property, do you receive a refund for all the property taxes paid since building? Also, having looked up the Cowichan Nation, I found that one of their defining traits was that they were nomadic…as in not settling in a particular area. And, never having settled in the area named in the suit. You’d think that would be relevant.
Addendum: If you were living on your property prior to 1975, you can stay in your residence under adverse possession. Alberta tossed Adverse Possession in 1975 with the Land Title Registration. However, one could probably argue that the Land Title Registration has just been labeled impotent by the Judge. Sooooooo, one wonders how that might play out. Squatter’s rights and all that.