Exactly. One of the most corrupt organizations in the world & we're adhering to what they're implementing? Seriously, our government(s) are truly becoming just as corrupt. Why? What's in it for them? I seriously think we have a corrupt government who doesn't give a crap about us.
The answer to your question is incredibly simple: your elected government long ago chose to joint the UN and continues to remain therein.
Now, having said that, the feds have officially adopted UNDRIP as an "aspirational" document in 2010 [effectively a very qualified okay by Stephen Harper] and in 2016, the Face Painter removed the qualifications and announced full unqualified support for UNDRIP.
Therefore, all the idiots who voted for the LPC under the Face Painter DID vote for UNDRIP.
We're well past aspiring and endorsing - in 2021, the federal government made UNDRIP federal law by passing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) which:
(1) requires all Canadian laws to conform with UNDRIP and
This brings to light the true historical division among First Nations. They weren't all in some mythical utopia, agreeing on everything. They were all separate and fought violently over the same lands, they're fighting over in courts today.
Truth an reconciliation failed because we did not speak the truth about FN history. All history is messy, but we pretend that that the Canadian FN's did not kill or take slaves from other tribes.
The sad part, some Albertans have drank the never-ending liberal anti-Alberta kool-aid. Alberta separatists clearly see the truth that Canada has failed.
There are folks who, after considering things, have concluded that Canada is not broken. I disagree with them as I look at how we have fallen short in so many areas and that our current Prime Minister is apparently [not really at all!] providing leadership and hope [ha!] but, that is okay, different folks have different opinions. But, but, but. That is simply different interpretations of what has happened and a too rosy glow about the present so, I kinda, possibly, maybe understand even if I tremendously disagree.
The real kicker, however, for me is to look forward and see how the never ending never decreasing deficit will lead to impoverishment. I look at the idea that the fools that are in charge of the country don't see what their adoption of DRIPA has done to property rights, don't see where the Supreme Court is doing with their never ending interpretations and re-interpretations; don't see the strait-jacket that is Canada's constitution which is weaponized against Alberta. So, I simply want Alberta out of Canada.
I am under no illusions that separation will be easy; I believe that there will be some difficult times initially but I also think that those difficulties will very quickly dissipate and that the future for an independent Alberta is very rosy.
I agree that a separate Alberta can have a rosy future.
I like that the main proponents of Alberta separation tell the truth about it not being easy to separate and there will be bumps, but not bumps that an Albertan can't overcome.
As you say, there is a willful blindness that Canada is doing well. Maybe the blindness comes from false hope?
Wow Donald you are absolutely right. Why can't the asinine elbows up crowd see this? In some way I do think they realize all this, but they will still stubbornly vote for the party that has been screwing us for the last decade. You can't fix stupid.
The only country or jurisdiction going ahead with the UNDRIP BS is guess who, Canada led by BC led by the real reason for all the anger and confusion The NDP !!
The land agreements are an issue for sure but so are the all the monies said to be paid from the mineral rights and in other such areas since this takes money directly away from the BC coffers.
For instance.
A 30-year agreement signed in 2017 includes Musqueam receiving 1% of YVR’s airport annual gross revenue, alongside scholarships and job opportunities, as the airport operates on their traditional territory. Anyway that means about 5.5 to 6.5M per year for 30 years.
The ongoing battle with the The Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands who are seeking 7M each in mineral rights with the expansion of this mine. Something they deny now that it is public but up to the point of being offered that 35% payout were in opposition of the mine.
40M to be paid out to one band with 4000 members before shovels can even go into the ground. Then another close to 2B in mineral rights, contracts and revenue sharing.
How nice of David Eby to give away the revenues that should be going to pay down his provincal debt.
The natives never owned the land to begin with nor did they stay in the same place for any length of time. They followed the buffalo did they not? This whole thing is unconscionable. They traveled the country but didn't 'OWN' anything. So why is this happening? Who is benefitting besides these tribes? I don't believe that there's "nothing" to worry about because there is & it only takes one tribe to decide to become authoritarian. How is it that governments figure they can make these decisions w/o consulting the people WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE LAND that they've paid for?
They say there's nothing to worry about but this is an extremely slippery slope. Look at MAiD as an example. People were worried that while the initial MAiD was for terminally ill people only & look what has happened now. The "slippery slope" has now happened & pretty much anyone who wants it can get it. I realize the comparison is nowhere near the same, the "idea" is the same.
The Prairie Indians "followed the buffalo", the coastal Indians lived in settlements for decades if not centuries. And they fought each other for their territory. Canada will be destroyed by people like David Eby and his communist friends if we don't boot them out soon.
Regardless of how the land claims fall out, it will take a while for people to trust the Carney or the Eby government. While we shot ourselves in the foot investment money goes south. Regardless of what investors think of Trump, he appears to be far more stable to investors than the two Canadian governments.
A friend of mine told me one of her relatives live in this are of Vancouver and when they went in to renew their mortgage they were told by the bank they could not renew it because they no longer had title to it. You ight want to check out that angle to see if it is true
The type of government that most Canadians voted for in the last election - and polls say that most Canadians still support - can function much better if there are no meaningful property rights, just an endless negotiation for the right to live in peace. They may not have realized that part just yet. A wise move, however, is to save your sympathy for those who did not vote for that type of government. Many of them do not have many options.
Last time I checked nobody voted for the UN so why do we have to adhere to their tyrannical laws? UNDRIP needs to be repealed immediately.
Exactly. One of the most corrupt organizations in the world & we're adhering to what they're implementing? Seriously, our government(s) are truly becoming just as corrupt. Why? What's in it for them? I seriously think we have a corrupt government who doesn't give a crap about us.
The answer to your question is incredibly simple: your elected government long ago chose to joint the UN and continues to remain therein.
Now, having said that, the feds have officially adopted UNDRIP as an "aspirational" document in 2010 [effectively a very qualified okay by Stephen Harper] and in 2016, the Face Painter removed the qualifications and announced full unqualified support for UNDRIP.
Therefore, all the idiots who voted for the LPC under the Face Painter DID vote for UNDRIP.
We're well past aspiring and endorsing - in 2021, the federal government made UNDRIP federal law by passing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) which:
(1) requires all Canadian laws to conform with UNDRIP and
(2) works toward implementing UNDRIP objectives.
This work is led by the Department of Justice.
This brings to light the true historical division among First Nations. They weren't all in some mythical utopia, agreeing on everything. They were all separate and fought violently over the same lands, they're fighting over in courts today.
Truth an reconciliation failed because we did not speak the truth about FN history. All history is messy, but we pretend that that the Canadian FN's did not kill or take slaves from other tribes.
It is 2026 in Canada.
We don’t build enough or produce enough.
We have stagnant economic growth.
Young people have been priced out of our housing markets.
We can’t manage an immigration system.
We can’t establish a beneficial bail system.
We can't operate a properly functioning healthcare system.
We can't build LNG terminals, execute environmental studies, or cost-benefit analysis without complete institutional paralysis.
We can’t properly implement a public sector pay system.
We can’t sign a trade deal with our biggest client.
We can't buy a bunch of planes for our military.
We don’t know whether or not we own our land, our farms, our cottages, our houses, or our businesses.
And we will elect a Liberal Government for the fifth consecutive time.
We are our own worst enemy.
We did this to ourselves.
This is no way to run a Country.
And that is why we in Alberta want out of this wretched country.
The sad part, some Albertans have drank the never-ending liberal anti-Alberta kool-aid. Alberta separatists clearly see the truth that Canada has failed.
There are folks who, after considering things, have concluded that Canada is not broken. I disagree with them as I look at how we have fallen short in so many areas and that our current Prime Minister is apparently [not really at all!] providing leadership and hope [ha!] but, that is okay, different folks have different opinions. But, but, but. That is simply different interpretations of what has happened and a too rosy glow about the present so, I kinda, possibly, maybe understand even if I tremendously disagree.
The real kicker, however, for me is to look forward and see how the never ending never decreasing deficit will lead to impoverishment. I look at the idea that the fools that are in charge of the country don't see what their adoption of DRIPA has done to property rights, don't see where the Supreme Court is doing with their never ending interpretations and re-interpretations; don't see the strait-jacket that is Canada's constitution which is weaponized against Alberta. So, I simply want Alberta out of Canada.
I am under no illusions that separation will be easy; I believe that there will be some difficult times initially but I also think that those difficulties will very quickly dissipate and that the future for an independent Alberta is very rosy.
I agree that a separate Alberta can have a rosy future.
I like that the main proponents of Alberta separation tell the truth about it not being easy to separate and there will be bumps, but not bumps that an Albertan can't overcome.
As you say, there is a willful blindness that Canada is doing well. Maybe the blindness comes from false hope?
Wow Donald you are absolutely right. Why can't the asinine elbows up crowd see this? In some way I do think they realize all this, but they will still stubbornly vote for the party that has been screwing us for the last decade. You can't fix stupid.
The only country or jurisdiction going ahead with the UNDRIP BS is guess who, Canada led by BC led by the real reason for all the anger and confusion The NDP !!
The land agreements are an issue for sure but so are the all the monies said to be paid from the mineral rights and in other such areas since this takes money directly away from the BC coffers.
For instance.
A 30-year agreement signed in 2017 includes Musqueam receiving 1% of YVR’s airport annual gross revenue, alongside scholarships and job opportunities, as the airport operates on their traditional territory. Anyway that means about 5.5 to 6.5M per year for 30 years.
The ongoing battle with the The Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands who are seeking 7M each in mineral rights with the expansion of this mine. Something they deny now that it is public but up to the point of being offered that 35% payout were in opposition of the mine.
Then there is the big one in northern BC.
"Eby government gives Tahltan Nation veto over gold mine development." https://northernbeat.ca/opinion/eby-government-gives-tahltan-nation-veto-over-gold-mine-development/
40M to be paid out to one band with 4000 members before shovels can even go into the ground. Then another close to 2B in mineral rights, contracts and revenue sharing.
How nice of David Eby to give away the revenues that should be going to pay down his provincal debt.
The natives never owned the land to begin with nor did they stay in the same place for any length of time. They followed the buffalo did they not? This whole thing is unconscionable. They traveled the country but didn't 'OWN' anything. So why is this happening? Who is benefitting besides these tribes? I don't believe that there's "nothing" to worry about because there is & it only takes one tribe to decide to become authoritarian. How is it that governments figure they can make these decisions w/o consulting the people WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE LAND that they've paid for?
They say there's nothing to worry about but this is an extremely slippery slope. Look at MAiD as an example. People were worried that while the initial MAiD was for terminally ill people only & look what has happened now. The "slippery slope" has now happened & pretty much anyone who wants it can get it. I realize the comparison is nowhere near the same, the "idea" is the same.
What does happen down the road?
The Prairie Indians "followed the buffalo", the coastal Indians lived in settlements for decades if not centuries. And they fought each other for their territory. Canada will be destroyed by people like David Eby and his communist friends if we don't boot them out soon.
MAiD is a great example of Canadian government 'progressive' ideologies going to far.
And who is funding this fake tribe? China is.
Thanks Brian for bringing us this interview.
Regardless of how the land claims fall out, it will take a while for people to trust the Carney or the Eby government. While we shot ourselves in the foot investment money goes south. Regardless of what investors think of Trump, he appears to be far more stable to investors than the two Canadian governments.
A friend of mine told me one of her relatives live in this are of Vancouver and when they went in to renew their mortgage they were told by the bank they could not renew it because they no longer had title to it. You ight want to check out that angle to see if it is true
The type of government that most Canadians voted for in the last election - and polls say that most Canadians still support - can function much better if there are no meaningful property rights, just an endless negotiation for the right to live in peace. They may not have realized that part just yet. A wise move, however, is to save your sympathy for those who did not vote for that type of government. Many of them do not have many options.