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We Are All Treaty People

Chief Big Screen TV The Libranos We Are All Treaty People 16 Comments

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.

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Canada’s Bolsheviks We Are All Treaty People 3 Comments

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

The Deplorables We Are All Treaty People 36 Comments

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.

We Are All Treaty People

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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.

Paleolithic Reality

There Goes The Narrative We Are All Treaty People 23 Comments

The common narrative is that the indigenous tribes living in a particular area prior to European settlement were always living there. But that’s not really true, is it?

“Very convenient to cloak your claims in spiritualism. …No matter what your legends say, you didn’t sprout from the plains like the spring grasses and you didn’t coalesce out of the ether. You came out of the Minnesota Woodlands armed to the teeth and set upon your fellow man. You massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha , the Ponca, the Otoe, and the Pawnee without mercy …and yet you claim the Black Hills is a private preserve bequeathed to you by the great spirit. … You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a call.”

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Children R Our Future We Are All Treaty People 8 Comments

Sun- Manitoba foster group echoes Peguis chief’s concerns over child welfare oversight

Last week, Chief Bird called for the cancellation and restructuring of Peguis’ child and family services agreement, stating that the system created under the 2023 coordination deal has “no accountability and no transparency.”

The agreement, established under Bill C-92, was the first in Manitoba to transfer child welfare authority from the province and the federal government to a First Nation. The 2019 federal legislation was designed to affirm Indigenous jurisdiction over child and family services and promote culturally grounded, community-led care.

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