Category: We Are All Treaty People

Protection Money

Canada’s Bolsheviks Climate Cult We Are All Treaty People 16 Comments

If you pony up enough money to the paleolithic set, maybe your project can go ahead.

Jonathan Wilkinson, a B.C. Liberal MP and a former federal environment minister, said today that “a number of things” would need to happen before the tanker ban could change, including discussions with the B.C. government and coastal First Nations.

Scroll down to see the Financial Post point out the errors in Eby’s arguments.

As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. Premier Eby’s objections to another Alberta pipeline are rooted in fallacies, not fact. The Carney government should recognize that and decide soon whether or not another pipeline to B.C. tidewater is “in the national interest” — which apparently is how you get a permit to build major projects in Canada these days.

Wizardry, Not Wisdom

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When a cultural movement allegedly based on science starts to bring in mystical “wisdom keepers” in an attempt to remain relevant, this merely confirms that it was never based on science in the first place.

The COP so far “was a testament that unfortunately, for Indigenous peoples to be heard, they actually need to be disruptive,” said Aya Khourshid, an Egyptian-Palestinian member of A Wisdom Keepers Delegation, a group of Indigenous people from around the world.

Indigenous people are putting a lot of energy “to be in this space but to not necessarily be given a platform or voice at the decision table with the ministers and those who are in power,” said Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu Wisdom Keeper.

The Excuse Factory

Canada’s Bolsheviks The Tolerant Left We Are All Treaty People 13 Comments

It’s hard to imagine that anyone with a shred of moral conscience could face themselves day after day after delivering a judgement which brazenly excuses such psychopathic behavior.

Mr. Garlow is the personification of intergenerational trauma. I cannot imagine more sympathetic circumstances or mitigating factors that cry out for some compassion. Punishing him with a further period of incarceration for the sake of the common good would be unjust,” wrote Justice Brenda Green, who recently handed Garlow a suspended sentence and three years of probation.

The judge saw a “clear, causal nexus between his father’s brutalization in residential schools and the trail of damage and devastation that slammed like a wrecking ball through the next generation. I cannot imagine a case with a more shocking example of the detrimental impact of colonialism, intergenerational trauma and the attempted cultural genocide by seizing children from their communities only to be placed in horribly abusive environments.”

Seems Legit

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Sun- $871,000 in expenses for just seven indigenous leaders, Indigenous whistleblowers demand to see the books

Jerleen Anderson Sullivan’s Facebook post about Norway House Cree Nation caught attention because it was fearless. She revealed that one councillor claimed $236,111 in expenses, another $141,062, and that together, the council’s expenses reached $871,731 for only seven members. Salaries were roughly $102,000 per councillor, the Chief just under $120,000. Expenses exceeded pay. Her question was simple but piercing: where did all that money go?

Follow The Science

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Back to the Dark Ages.

In March 2025, the Australian government quietly buried its last collection of Pleistocene human fossils in an unmarked grave. These remains were of Homo sapiens who had shared the Earth with Neanderthals. But they went into the ground with little media coverage or protest from the global scientific community, who knew better than anyone that these delicate, carefully reconstructed fossils would not last long in hostile conditions.

The significance of this loss is hard to overstate. Australia is a unique piece in the puzzle of human origins. It was colonized by modern humans before Europe, but it remained almost entirely isolated, preserving many aspects of human culture and genetics that vanished elsewhere. As Charles Darwin observed, “the Australian aborigines rank amongst the most distinct of all the races of man.”

Following the British settlement of Australia, museums and universities accumulated collections of both historical and ancient remains. Most material came from southeast Australia and Tasmania, where the once-numerous tribes had suffered enormous losses and even extinction. Today, these thousands of bones, mummies, and fossils have almost all been buried or cremated; genetic “biographies” that were burned before they were ever read.

We Are All Treaty People

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National Post;

Canada has paid billions upon billions to rectify past wrongs — figures that supersede what we spend on the military, and yet are still not enough.

Here’s a partial list: $23 billion to settle the lawsuit for the government not adequately covering the costs of Indigenous children in care; $1.72 billion to cover the cost of farming equipment that was promised to Saskatchewan First Nations 150 years ago but wasn’t provided; $14.9 billion to resolve special claims since 1973; $1.1 billion to settle a lawsuit by patients of federal Indigenous hospitals; $1 billion to an Alberta First Nation to adjust 19th-century treaty payments to modern dollars and $10 billion to another in Ontario, opening the doors to other nations doing the same.

And there are many more on the way. Some Manitoba First Nations are suing Manitoba Hydro for a share of the energy company’s profits, some Ontario First Nations are seeking $95 billion and the power to halt all development in Treaty 9 land without Indigenous consent. It all adds up to complete economic stagnation.

The Liberal government’s attitude of pulling punches and paying claims out the nose — and appointing judges who are open to the idea of more and more compensation — has swelled this into a problem of scales hard to comprehend. Oh, and when anyone points out the sheer cost of all this, they can expect to be accused of perpetuating the “colonial mindset.”

Be careful there, buddy.

Great Success!

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A good summary here.

Fraser Institute- Eby bringing B.C. to its knees with Aboriginal land deals

Recently, British Columbia Attorney General Niki Sharma said that fee simple title in private property is superior to Aboriginal title. She’s a day late and a dollar short. In fact, her NDP government, led by Premier David Eby, has been doing everything in its power to have Aboriginal title triumph across B.C.

h/t Cameron

Some Treaty People Are More Equal Than Others

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Vancouver Sun;

The question that dominated a Richmond public meeting this week on the impact of a recent court decision on Aboriginal title was a simple one: “Why weren’t we told sooner?”

Residents had learned just this month, courtesy of a letter from Mayor Malcolm Brodie, that the B.C. Supreme Court decision recognizing Aboriginal title over hundreds of acres of city land could have a “negative impact” on private land within the area.

They had heard Premier David Eby say that the mayor’s concerns were warranted and that residents were right to be worried — and not just residents of Richmond. “It is a big deal,” said the premier.

Yet the case dates back 10 years. And as far back as eight years ago, the court had wrestled with whether to notify private landowners about the implications of a declaration of Aboriginal title.

So why were landowners and residents only learning about it now?

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The judge worried that if the court ordered formal notifications to private landowners it could be swamped with applications from them for standing.

“It would for all practical purposes put a halt to these proceedings,” Power ruled. Plus, the Cowichan Tribes “do not seek at this stage to invalidate fee-simple interests held by private landowners.”

Note: “At this stage.” In the event Cowichan were to revise its intentions in future, the private landowners could then proceed to court and file a complaint that “they were not given formal notice” earlier.


Do you have a mortgage on your property in Richmond?

From the comments: The judge, Barbara Young, seems to have rediscovered her aboriginal family history in 2015.

“It will never happen in Canada.”

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Ian Cumming in Ontario Farmer
Originally published October 11, 2022

Recently Mohawks barged two houses down the St Lawrence River and without land deeds or building permits, installed them on farmer-owned residential property by the water in Glengarry.

It is Mohawk land, they claim. People pay a premium to have the St Lawrence touching their lawn. This land is extra valuable, being bordered by official wetlands, providing that combination of complete privacy surrounded by nature.

No houses, up to this point, have been installed by the Mohawks on the government designated wetlands. Possibly government might not approve.

The Montreal Mafia and a former Liberal cabinet minister own land and homes next to the river nearby as well, but they didn’t put houses there either.

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And So It Begins…

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CTV- First Nation files lawsuit demanding Aboriginal title over lands in western Quebec

The Aboriginal title claim covers eight areas, including islands in the Ottawa River; Gatineau park and adjoining lands in the city of Gatineau; two harvesting zones in the Gatineau regional county; the Papineau-Labelle wildlife reserve; as well as the Baskatong Reservoir and other nearby areas that were flooded during the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1927.

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The Orca;

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.

The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

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National Post- ICBC’s Indigenous hotline and driving tests do a disservice to reconciliation

Based on its “Reconciliation Action Plan,” ICBC now has a driver’s license phone line just for Indigenous people. The obvious question — why? — goes unanswered. “This new phone line is staffed by a team of supportive and knowledgeable ICBC employees who recognize the historical and contemporary barriers Indigenous people face when trying to obtain a B.C. driver’s licence,” reads the Crown corporation’s website.

Fintrac issues $600K fine to First Nations Bank of Canada

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Inconceivable!

The First Nations Bank of Canada says it accepts the results of an investigation by Ottawa’s financial intelligence agency, which fined the Saskatoon-based bank just over $600,000 for violating money laundering and terrorist financing reporting rules.

On Sept. 22, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed an administrative monetary penalty on the bank for failure to comply with the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act.

In total, the First Nations Bank of Canada was fined $601,139.80 for five violations of the act’s regulations, according to a Fintrac news release. The violations are related to oversight of suspicious transactions, assessments of high-risk clients and reporting requirements.

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Earlier this year, Fintrac fined the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority $1,175,000 for violations under the act, including failure to report suspicious transactions and inadequate monitoring policies.

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