Category: We Are All Treaty People

Left Coast, Lost Cause

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Jonathan Kay;

On 24 October 2019, B.C.’s left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) government enacted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), requiring the government to take “all necessary measures” to ensure its laws are consistent with UNDRIP. British Columbia thereby became the first jurisdiction on the planet that not only endorsed UNDRIP in the abstract (as Trudeau and other national leaders had done) but actually cemented its guarantees into law. In 2021, the province added a further legislative amendment explicitly requiring that “every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with UNDRIP.”

Behind the scenes, then-Premier John Horgan and his cabinet were assuring legislators that the law would simply ensure that B.C. took advice and guidance from Indigenous groups. But as judges (predictably) concluded, that’s absolutely not what the law says.

Paleolithic Justice

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Comments about raping those you dislike would normally get political leaders fired, but then again, this is Canada, and certain racially defined “elders” can say whatever they like.

During the session, Belleau recounted comments she said she directed at Frances Widdowson at a campus encounter in late 2025. “I told her: ‘I wish our people could grab you, drag you over to the Kamloops residential school, put you into the basement, speak our language to you — nothing but Secwepemctsín — beat you, rape you, hurt you,’” she recalled at the UBC event.

They’re Gonna Need A Bigger Land Acknowledgement

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“Calling for stand down”.

RCMP officers were executing a search warrant at an illegal cannabis storefront on Highway 4 in Potlotek at 7:30 a.m. when a group gathered to protest and blocked the highway.

“In consideration of protester safety, officers chose not to leave the premises using their vehicles. Once officers cleared their vehicles of weapons, they departed on foot and their vehicles remained in Potlotek,” the force said in a news release Friday.[…]

“The seven RCMP vehicles that remained in Potlotek after the search warrant execution on April 2 were removed from the community this morning. Damage to the vehicles includes broken windows, dents, deflated tires, removed tires, and urine-soaked interior surfaces,” it said.

“Protest”. That’ll help with recruitment.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

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One day a Canadian Prime Minister will stand up in Parliament to say, “Wasn’t us who stole your land”.

We Are All Treaty People

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Bruce Pardy, Fraser Institute;

The Canadian government has surrendered Vancouver. On Feb. 20, the federal government announced three agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band. One of those agreements recognizes Musqueam Aboriginal title within their traditional territory. That territory is located around the mouth of the Fraser River, including what is now Vancouver and neighbouring municipalities. The agreements were negotiated secretly without public input.

If the federal government wanted to calm the waters over the status of private property rights in British Columbia, this was not the way to do it. Which means that’s not what they wanted to do. They have chosen to pour oil on the fire. The Musqueam agreements are the latest edicts to pose existential risks to property interests in B.C. Let’s recap.

More: Eby now saying he sat front row at Musqueam agreement’s signing

Shovel Ready Projects

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My advice: if at all possible, shovel and shut up. Most of Canada has ancient indigenous graves all over it if you know where to look. I’m personally aware of an unmarked grave in the same spot where an old Indian campsite used to be in my neighborhood.

A couple say they’re on the hook for hundreds of thousands dollars after Indigenous ancestral remains were found on their property in Wainfleet, Ont.

“They learned that burial site investigation is hefty work. One quote estimated 27 days, a crew of six, 100 square meters of dirt sifted through screens, and local indigenous oversight. The total: $319,000.”

Racial Injustice

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What do the judges do to reach such decisions? It sounds like they just cut and paste the appropriate references to colonialism and presto! they have a judgement.

Morrison and his father provided the appeal court with affidavits that “detail a difficult past, lost connections with relatives who lived on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Ohsweken, Ontario,” said the appeal decision. “Mr. Morrison’s father recounts a difficult life, marked by alcohol abuse, family violence and alienation. As a result, Mr. Morrison’s father became disconnected from his Indigenous roots, which had a reverberating impact on his children.

I’m sure smoke inhalation will fix him right up.

He has attended smudging ceremonies and sought services from the Indigenous liaison officer,” Fairburn said.

Racial Justice

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Yet another cringeworthy example of differential sentencing. I guess if you feel enough “disconnection” from your roots, you just can’t help but chase after 15 year olds.

A British Columbia judge has knocked a year off the prison sentence for a Métis-Cree woman who sexually assaulted a teen less than half her age after sending the boy “sexualized photographs” of herself “in states of undress, as well as pictures of her breasts and vagina.”

While she has an interest in learning more about her Métis background, this journey has been complicated and she feels disconnected from her cultural roots,” Wolf said in his Jan. 28 decision. “This is not surprising as Colonialism, by its very nature, has created barriers for Indigenous people to maintain their relationship to their culture, community and language.”

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