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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.”

Diversities

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If the courts insist on adjusting sentencing based on race, why not set up a Race Classification Board so that they could at least have some pretense of objectivity, however laughable? At this point, it’s just a matter of a judge declaring “I’ll accept your arbitrary claims as fact because…yoke of colonialism”.

Williams identifies as both Black and Mi’kmaq. Though he couldn’t prove the latter, the judge was “satisfied” Williams “has established a connection to Indigenous ancestry.”

“It is not unusual for Indigenous people who have struggled under the yoke of colonialism in this country and its intergenerational impact to have lost connections to their roots and community,” Chamberlain said.

If It Weren’t For Fake Hate

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There’d be no hate at all.

On Tuesday, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, Frank Star Comes Out, made headlines by claiming that four members of his tribe were unlawfully detained by ICE and calling for their immediate release. He also claimed that the federal government tried to force him to “enter into an immigration agreement with ICE.”

To coin a phrase, “That’s not entirely accurate.”

Mr. Star Comes Out apparently felt that Native Americans were being left out of all the victimization of oppressed minorities in Minnesota and decided to shoulder his way onto the stage.

Democrats and the media leapt at the story that Native Americans, “Americans” before anyone else got here, were being rounded up by evil ICE and thrown into a detention camp.

The only problem with this juicy news item was that it wasn’t true.

ICE never even encountered any Ogala Sioux and never asked for an immigration agreement. The tribe only gave ICE the first names of the supposed detainees. It’s not unreasonable to speculate that the entire “incident” was a publicity stunt, a set-up from the start.

“ICE did NOT ask the tribe for any kind of agreement; we have simply asked for basic information on the individuals, such as names and date of birth, so that we can run a proper check to provide them with the facts,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.

Postcard from Kashechewan

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CTV- ‘Woefully inadequate’ response to Kashechewan crisis, officials say

The crisis began after the water treatment system failed, sending sewage into homes and contaminating the water. It also flooded the only health-care facility, requiring a temporary move to the community school. Residents are still without potable water, but bottled water has been brought into the community.

Probably just a one off event…

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