Category: Western Separatism

Left Coast, Lost Cause

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We are governed by a secret cabal of our enemies.

Without legislative approval or a public mandate, the BC NDP government—apparently enabled by the federal government—is negotiating a secret agreement with a tiny, remote Indigenous community that aims to recognize legally unproven Aboriginal title, transfer lands, share revenue and cede unprecdented governance authority over 11 per cent of the province in one of Canada’s most mineral-rich districts, containing an estimated value of known deposits exceeding C$1 trillion.

That’s trillion with a ‘t.’

The end goal of the so-called “foundation agreement” is the recognition of Tahltan Nation rights and title over “Tahltan territory,” defined repeatedly as its entire legally unproven territorial claim spanning 96,000 square kilometres, according to public documents and other heavily redacted files obtained under a Freedom of Information request by the Public Land Use Society.

“The [foundation agreement] negotiations will be based upon recognition of Tahltan Aboriginal Title and Rights in Tahltan Territory,” reads a 2020 “shared prosperity agreement” that defines the geographic area as “the traditional territory identified by the Tahltan.”

Tahltan’s territorial claim spans an area larger than Portugal, including 70 per cent of the Golden Triangle, one of the richest mineral districts in Canada, which the BC Geological Survey estimated in 2021 to hold a total contained metal value of C$1.28 trillion. […]

The Tahltan Central Government is the administrative governing structure for the Tahltan and Iskut Indian bands representing two clans who together make up the Tahltan Nation with 636 people living on reserve and 2,444 registered members living elsewhere.

The most stubborn obstacle to securing recognition of Tahltan title may might not be having to prove it in court—both senior levels of government appear inexplicably eager to dispense with the constitutional standard of proof, as they did with Haida title. Nor have governments openly expressed any concern for the public interests or the usurping of its governance authority over Crown land. Rather, the biggest pushback may come from neighbouring Indigenous communities.

Via Juno News.

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Not a bug, but a feature: Canada’s carbon pricing wipes out Alberta oilsands’ edge

Canada’s industrial carbon tax pushes the cost of producing a marginal barrel of oilsands crude to $75 USD (at $95/tonne carbon tax)—well above what new projects in Texas or New Mexico face—stripping away the tax advantage Alberta needs to attract energy investment, according to a new Fraser Institute study by Jack Mintz, president’s fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

The findings land as Ottawa and Alberta advance a one-million-barrel-per-day West Coast oil pipeline proposal under their November 2025 memorandum of understanding (MOU) and May 2026 implementation agreement. So far, Pembina Pipeline Corp. is the only private partner to sign on, taking a 10 percent stake during construction, and no oil producers have yet committed to shipping on the line.

Mintz said the research began long before the current political moment.

“This work was started about three, four years ago—it was more of an academic interest,” he said in a phone interview with The Hub. “It struck me that no one had really looked at carbon taxation and how it affects competitiveness.”

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Pipeline to Nowhere: Construction of new oil pipeline to B.C. coast won’t include lifting oil tanker ban

Describing it as “a big day for Canada” and “a big day for British Columbia,” B.C. Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday announced the signing of a multibillion dollar memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two governments that could help pave the way for construction of a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

“This agreement doesn’t require us to support any pipeline proposal from Alberta,” said Eby, who, along with First Nations, has been adamantly opposed to lifting the federal ban on oil tanker traffic along B.C.’s north coast.[…]

The MOU also includes a commitment by Ottawa to engage in “early consistent and meaningful consultations with First Nations,” along with “an economic and revenue framework for British Columbia” that will include an annual royalty payment to British Columbia by the pipeline operator and “an environmental liability and emergency response fund held in trust accessible by B.C. and First Nations.”

I’m sure Zinchuk will have more in due course.

Memorandum Of Understanding

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Not a bug, but a feature.

Cenovus Energy CEO Jon ​McKenzie said Tuesday ‌Alberta’s proposed 1 million barrel-per-day pipeline to ​British Columbia’s ​Pacific coast cannot be ⁠financed by the ​private sector under ​Canada’s current regulatory regime.

McKenzie, who heads one of ​Canada’s largest ​oil sands companies, said at ‌the ⁠Global Energy Show in Calgary that the country’s industrial ​carbon ​pricing ⁠system makes Canadian oil uncompetitive ​and inhibits ​the ⁠production growth required to fill the ⁠proposed ​pipeline.

I Want A New Country

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Danielle Smith is making some news.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s open to having a “conversation” with her fellow premiers about rewriting parts of the constitution relating to Indigenous treaty rights.

Smith told reporters on Friday that Section 35 of the constitution, which governs Crown-Indigenous relations, has been stretched beyond recognition by the courts.

She said that an Alberta judge’s decision earlier this month to throw out a petition for a binding referendum, on the grounds that the province failed to meet its duty to consult with First Nations, was a prime example of this overreach.

CBC: Leaders across the political spectrum are responding today to news that Alberta’s fall referendum will now decide whether Albertans want a vote on separatism.

Nenshi eh… responds.

Will Canada’s Woke Army Soon Be On the March?

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In some far off distant place, if an army is built to primarily crush its own citizens, how would you describe that place?

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Another Liberal who ran as a Conservative outs themselves.

Marilyn Gladu has crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party of Canada, becoming the latest opposition member to enter Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing caucus.

In a statement released by the Liberals on Wednesday, the longtime Conservative MP said her decision followed a year of economic uncertainty and feedback from constituents calling for “serious leadership” and a plan to strengthen Canada’s economy.

Gladu, who has represented the southwestern Ontario riding for more than a decade, said joining the government would better position her to advocate for local priorities and contribute to national economic goals, including job creation, trade diversification and housing construction.

Because the solution to “economic uncertainty” is to join forces with Team Uncertainty.

Gladu framed the move as a return to her riding’s historical role as a “bellwether” constituency, noting that Sarnia—Lambton had typically elected government MPs for decades prior to her tenure in opposition.

And there’s no comfy fur waiting for members in opposition.

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

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Colby Cosh;

The Supreme Court is an apex appellate court; its function is to give the final word solely on points of law, and certainly not to conduct a de novo trial, repeating the evidence-gathering work of the court of first instance. So what exactly is the point of the week-long jamboree and its parade of interveners? Are there novel and pertinent social or legal facts to be studied?

It is almost, as Sarkonak observes, as though the court were taking the work of a parliamentary committee onto itself — as if it were revving up to legislate in an area with profound social and political implications, in precisely the way parliamentary deputies would be traditionally expected to.

The Government of Canada is encouraging the Supreme Court to, on its own motion, capture new and previously unimagined powers for itself. It proposes that the court should be able to block some uses of the notwithstanding clause because, if renewed by successive governments often enough, they might create “irreparable impairments” to the enumerated rights and freedoms suspended. (Look into your crystal balls!) The government also invites the court to allow idle “declarations of invalidity” on statutes that use the clause: it proposes, in fact, that the court should be permitted to do this for explicitly electoral purposes, because “voters and their representatives are not always necessarily in a position to determine for themselves whether a law respects Charter rights and freedoms.”

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Related news from the Governor’s office: Carney is giving the Anti-Hate Network a say over what speech to restrict

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A legal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada beginning Monday, and legal experts say whatever the eventual ruling, it will have a profound effect on constitutional law in Canada.

The highly anticipated high court challenge to Bill 21 has been years in the making, but legal debate is likely to focus primarily on Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the provision known as the “notwithstanding clause,” which shields legislation from most court challenges over violations of fundamental rights.

François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government pre-emptively invoked the provision into the law passed in June 2019.

The Quebec law, known as Act respecting the laicity of the state, sets out the principles of secularism in the province. Among its most controversial measures is the prohibition of civil servants who are considered in positions of power — such as police officers, teachers and judges — from wearing religious symbols at work.

“What lies at the heart of the challenge before the Supreme Court is far less the act on state secularism than the criteria for suspending the application of human rights and freedoms,” said Louis-Philippe Lampron, a professor at the Université Laval’s School of Law.

“That’s why the upcoming Supreme Court decision will be a true earthquake in constitutional law, no matter which way the Supreme Court rules.”

Related: Carney takes Emergencies Act fight to Supreme Court

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Canadian Natural defers oilsands mine expansion;

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is deferring an oilsands mine expansion as it waits for Ottawa to finalize environmental policies.

The Calgary-based oil and gas giant had been planning to spend about $150 million this year on early engineering and design work for its $8.25-billion Jackpine mine expansion north of Fort McMurray, Alta., president Scott Stauth said Thursday.

But it’s putting that spending on hold until it gets more clarity around carbon pricing and methane emissions rules, which the company says have created an “economic burden for long-term growth investments.”

In related energy news – Families of three former Liberal MPs behind Queens County wind farm that’s getting $231 million in federal support

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