He goes with what the chiefs say. Always. The chiefs are the problems across the nation. Anyone who visits a few reserves knows this. Look at the clean water issue in several
Reserves.
All set up, people trained to use and repair the machinery — and the chiefs let it fall to pieces, blaming (always) the Fed Govt.
The other problem is that the Feds are responsible, according to various documents, to the FNs for duties that are provincial or municipal — for all other Cdns.
It does not work.
Period.
Must be changed.
Or this will go on forever.
Yes, with help from folks like Eby, we will lose this nation.
Eby has no mandate to give away the province to a small, undeserving racial minority on the basis that they were the most recent to be hunter/gatherers from the Stone Stage. He will be remembered as a curse by British Columbians.
has anyone ever explained to the natives that it might be in their interest to have large resource industries that they participate in, through jobs and investment?
Probably but the chiefs can rely on the Crown's fiduciary duty to Indians which is not diminished regardless of whether or not the Crown can generate the wealth to honour that duty. Canada can go further into debt to meet its fiduciary duty.
If I were an Indian in Canada and had even a room temperature IQ, I would start every day thanking my lucky stars for my good fortune. The good fortune to live in a country that has been developed into a prosperous industrial nation by the hard-working immigrants who came here years ago. And the Indians who live here have access to all of these advantages freely available to them.
Barry: You have written a short but accurate article...congrats. As a senior Canadian I have no idea where this Indian land ownership issue is going. One thing I am sure of is a dual Canada/ First Nations governance is sure to fail. When have you ever seen a situation where a 4% population had equal access to power versus the other 96% ? Where? And it will never work here so the sooner we fix it the better.
Give them some empty Crown land. If there appears one pair of Levi's, one gun, one lightbulb, one lipstick tube, etc...shove them off. If they want land to live like they used to, then they better live like they used to!
This entire debacle is imo ridiculous. Eby needs to be tossed to the curb asap! Everyone has been mixing since the dawn of time. There is no one who was “first.” The genome of a young boy buried at Malta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first surprise was that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western Europeans, showing that during the last Ice Age people from Europe had reached farther east across Eurasia than previously supposed. Though none of the Mal’ta boy’s skin or hair survive, his genes suggest he would have had brown hair, brown eyes, and freckled skin. The second surprise is that his DNA also matches a large proportion – some 25 percent – of the DNA of living Native Americans. The first people to arrive in the Americas have long been assumed to have descended from Siberian populations related to East Asians. It now seems that they may be a mixture between the Western Europeans who had reached Siberia and an East Asian population.”
Imagine a permanently ensconced NDP co-governing with, and hiding behind, a myriad of endlessly rent seeking FN bands. Start with housing development and see where that takes you.
Yes, but....for a couple of years now, I've been wondering why a plurality of that "98%" keep voting for Eby & Co. Is it really just "suicidal empathy"?
Maybe that's part of it. But mostly I think it is just because they have other priorities (don't ask me what they are ;)). This problem may not seem important to them. But when and if this particular issue becomes more salient to the daily lives of the 98%, especially if they start to feel that their property rights really are in danger, then we will see.
Their property rights ARE in danger but the voters are too complacent and trained to get their tid-bits of news from the garbage propaganda government owned main so-called stream media. THEY are a BIG part of the ignorance problem in this country.
interesting , but in the end, what does it really matter? i mean, even in the case of the richmond decision, has anyone lost their actual property? i feel like it is all window dressing and lip service until there are expropriations without compensation. as for native meddling in the resource industries, that is nothing new, and if anything, even Carney seems to be seeing the light of reality and moving towards creating bigger infrastructure projects, like pipelines.
It matters to individual property owners who hold fee simple titles because their formerly clear title is now compromised by a superior aboriginal title. While Indian bands may not seek to appropriate private lands, they could easily demand compensation for being deprived of the land that should have been theirs to dispose of as they saw fit. There is no guarantee that at no point in the future will a new chief and council seek appropriation.
Actually if you don't have clear title a bank won't renew your mortgage. So if Eby hadn't also stollen more from us, the taxpayers of this province to back peoples' mortgages they certainly would have. So what do you think of a system where a gift to 2% of our population further burdens the remaining 98%? I think it's a divisive disgrace of leadership.
climate change is one of those things that have been largely symbolic. that is until the carbon charge started to become a real drag on gas and natural gas prices. we saw that carney saw the light and dropped it when it became apparent that lots of people did not want to pay. so that is a good data point that says: no, people do not want to pay for "social Justice " type policies, but are willing to be quiet and go along with the lip service version
well the interesting thing is that this is all being done by an elected government. so the question might be for those who voted for Eby: how far, and how much are you willing to pay? my point was that right now it is still in the symbolic/lip service stage. Would any of the Eby voters be willing to pay a tax related to the equity in their house directly to indian bands, or would they be willing to just give up title and perhaps start renting from the natives?
I don't actually believe that the current bc government was elected without interference. So no, in my mind these things are not being done by an 'elected government.' Also, I wouldn't say it's symbolic money we are spending to cover Richmond people's mortgages. This is more hard earned tax money being siphoned off because Eby wants to give BC to the Natives - even though the Natives themselves disagree on boundaries of so-called aboriginal title. These are very serious precidents IMHO. These lands have been given with nothing in return. The federal obligation of support for the bands now in possession of huge areas of BC still stands. If this continues they will control all of BC, and still be draining the federal coffers dry. Meanwhile, despite Eby's gratuitous gifts, life expectancy for BC people of native origin has fallen a full 10 years. So while a few may have benefited from his largess, those who need have not.
ok, thanks for filling me in, Im not from BC so my knowledge level is low. but is it not true that there is a sizeable contingent of fairly radical ndp types there?
Yes. We used to be very much supporters of the old style of NDP. Now we have developed a strong urban/rural schism mainly between what the NDP have become and the often internally conflicted Conservative party, along with some, mostly Island communities, who lean Green. The emerging urban/rural schism seems to reflect division on ethnic lines as well. I do think we have very interesting and impactful times ahead here in our Beautiful BC!
Carney is shorting the Canadian dollar. His policies are screwing our GDP on purpose. His buddies at Brookfield are making a lot of money on the short selling. It is even in their financial reporting. Has to be b/c they are a Public Company.
He goes with what the chiefs say. Always. The chiefs are the problems across the nation. Anyone who visits a few reserves knows this. Look at the clean water issue in several
Reserves.
All set up, people trained to use and repair the machinery — and the chiefs let it fall to pieces, blaming (always) the Fed Govt.
The other problem is that the Feds are responsible, according to various documents, to the FNs for duties that are provincial or municipal — for all other Cdns.
It does not work.
Period.
Must be changed.
Or this will go on forever.
Yes, with help from folks like Eby, we will lose this nation.
Eby has no mandate to give away the province to a small, undeserving racial minority on the basis that they were the most recent to be hunter/gatherers from the Stone Stage. He will be remembered as a curse by British Columbians.
Eby and a few BC Indian Bands are setting up for when the CCP take over our province. They stupidly think it will all work out for them.
has anyone ever explained to the natives that it might be in their interest to have large resource industries that they participate in, through jobs and investment?
Probably but the chiefs can rely on the Crown's fiduciary duty to Indians which is not diminished regardless of whether or not the Crown can generate the wealth to honour that duty. Canada can go further into debt to meet its fiduciary duty.
If I were an Indian in Canada and had even a room temperature IQ, I would start every day thanking my lucky stars for my good fortune. The good fortune to live in a country that has been developed into a prosperous industrial nation by the hard-working immigrants who came here years ago. And the Indians who live here have access to all of these advantages freely available to them.
…and many won’t take advantage of the opportunities to participate, just to take welfare. Learned to be on the dole since childhood. Entitlement.
Like all neomarxists, he'll give away the store. Dangerous.
Barry: You have written a short but accurate article...congrats. As a senior Canadian I have no idea where this Indian land ownership issue is going. One thing I am sure of is a dual Canada/ First Nations governance is sure to fail. When have you ever seen a situation where a 4% population had equal access to power versus the other 96% ? Where? And it will never work here so the sooner we fix it the better.
Give them some empty Crown land. If there appears one pair of Levi's, one gun, one lightbulb, one lipstick tube, etc...shove them off. If they want land to live like they used to, then they better live like they used to!
This entire debacle is imo ridiculous. Eby needs to be tossed to the curb asap! Everyone has been mixing since the dawn of time. There is no one who was “first.” The genome of a young boy buried at Malta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first surprise was that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western Europeans, showing that during the last Ice Age people from Europe had reached farther east across Eurasia than previously supposed. Though none of the Mal’ta boy’s skin or hair survive, his genes suggest he would have had brown hair, brown eyes, and freckled skin. The second surprise is that his DNA also matches a large proportion – some 25 percent – of the DNA of living Native Americans. The first people to arrive in the Americas have long been assumed to have descended from Siberian populations related to East Asians. It now seems that they may be a mixture between the Western Europeans who had reached Siberia and an East Asian population.”
Imagine a permanently ensconced NDP co-governing with, and hiding behind, a myriad of endlessly rent seeking FN bands. Start with housing development and see where that takes you.
What is given can be taken away, given the right political conditions. The 98% do have the right to vote.
Yes, but....for a couple of years now, I've been wondering why a plurality of that "98%" keep voting for Eby & Co. Is it really just "suicidal empathy"?
Maybe that's part of it. But mostly I think it is just because they have other priorities (don't ask me what they are ;)). This problem may not seem important to them. But when and if this particular issue becomes more salient to the daily lives of the 98%, especially if they start to feel that their property rights really are in danger, then we will see.
Their property rights ARE in danger but the voters are too complacent and trained to get their tid-bits of news from the garbage propaganda government owned main so-called stream media. THEY are a BIG part of the ignorance problem in this country.
I am sorry to say that I can't disagree with your last sentence!
Most people rent and do not own. They don't pay land tax. This is why the cities lean left, ala New York City.
The problem is allowing non land owning citizens to vote. And AWFLs.
The suffrage movement was the beginning of the end of common sense.
Oh oh. Did I say that out loud?
Good article.
Big surprise coming for the Indians.
Just wait until the Muslims rake over, natives will cease to exist.
The only hope we have is the long established legal doctrine: FRAUD VICIATES EVERYTHING! 🤞🙏
interesting , but in the end, what does it really matter? i mean, even in the case of the richmond decision, has anyone lost their actual property? i feel like it is all window dressing and lip service until there are expropriations without compensation. as for native meddling in the resource industries, that is nothing new, and if anything, even Carney seems to be seeing the light of reality and moving towards creating bigger infrastructure projects, like pipelines.
It matters to individual property owners who hold fee simple titles because their formerly clear title is now compromised by a superior aboriginal title. While Indian bands may not seek to appropriate private lands, they could easily demand compensation for being deprived of the land that should have been theirs to dispose of as they saw fit. There is no guarantee that at no point in the future will a new chief and council seek appropriation.
Actually if you don't have clear title a bank won't renew your mortgage. So if Eby hadn't also stollen more from us, the taxpayers of this province to back peoples' mortgages they certainly would have. So what do you think of a system where a gift to 2% of our population further burdens the remaining 98%? I think it's a divisive disgrace of leadership.
climate change is one of those things that have been largely symbolic. that is until the carbon charge started to become a real drag on gas and natural gas prices. we saw that carney saw the light and dropped it when it became apparent that lots of people did not want to pay. so that is a good data point that says: no, people do not want to pay for "social Justice " type policies, but are willing to be quiet and go along with the lip service version
well the interesting thing is that this is all being done by an elected government. so the question might be for those who voted for Eby: how far, and how much are you willing to pay? my point was that right now it is still in the symbolic/lip service stage. Would any of the Eby voters be willing to pay a tax related to the equity in their house directly to indian bands, or would they be willing to just give up title and perhaps start renting from the natives?
I don't actually believe that the current bc government was elected without interference. So no, in my mind these things are not being done by an 'elected government.' Also, I wouldn't say it's symbolic money we are spending to cover Richmond people's mortgages. This is more hard earned tax money being siphoned off because Eby wants to give BC to the Natives - even though the Natives themselves disagree on boundaries of so-called aboriginal title. These are very serious precidents IMHO. These lands have been given with nothing in return. The federal obligation of support for the bands now in possession of huge areas of BC still stands. If this continues they will control all of BC, and still be draining the federal coffers dry. Meanwhile, despite Eby's gratuitous gifts, life expectancy for BC people of native origin has fallen a full 10 years. So while a few may have benefited from his largess, those who need have not.
ok, thanks for filling me in, Im not from BC so my knowledge level is low. but is it not true that there is a sizeable contingent of fairly radical ndp types there?
Yes. We used to be very much supporters of the old style of NDP. Now we have developed a strong urban/rural schism mainly between what the NDP have become and the often internally conflicted Conservative party, along with some, mostly Island communities, who lean Green. The emerging urban/rural schism seems to reflect division on ethnic lines as well. I do think we have very interesting and impactful times ahead here in our Beautiful BC!
Carney is shorting the Canadian dollar. His policies are screwing our GDP on purpose. His buddies at Brookfield are making a lot of money on the short selling. It is even in their financial reporting. Has to be b/c they are a Public Company.