They tried to derail the train.. WOW
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B.C. pipeline protests continue to halt Ontario trains for 5th day in a row
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This is so ****ing out of control. The Wet'suwet'en after being asked by the BC government to have their 'supporter's stand down, almost immediately did the exact opposite, telling them to keep it up and are still refusing to talk. There is zero chance that the spineless little twit will travel to BC and quite frankly, he shouldn't. In spite of being a total wimp PM, he is the head of our Federal government and the very idea of him meeting with them is ridiculous.
Like drafting a letter to the Feds, kind of ability? I'm up for that but it might take me abit to come up with the correct approach and wording. For sure it must include the historic wrongs done to our Nation - BTW Head Chief we need a name for our Nation.
I happen to have a genuine Eagle feather in my possession. I found it myself when out prospecting one day. I also have tobacco and the material for a smudge - my best friend smudges a lot.
Think of the consequences if that mentally handicapped individual challenging a train on the tracks today had not made it off the tracks. I have a feeling that the outcry and reaction from the rabid aboriginal activists would make these illegal blockades look pale in comparison.
Left-wing websites instruct activists to use thermite to “destroy” Canadian infrastructure
https://tnc.news/2020/02/13/exclusi...-thermite-to-destroy-canadian-infrastructure/
https://tnc.news/2020/02/13/exclusi...-thermite-to-destroy-canadian-infrastructure/
Please, pretty please stop
Trudeau says tire fire on CN Rail line near Tyendinaga 'extremely concerning'
Trudeau says tire fire on CN Rail line near Tyendinaga 'extremely concerning'
I was really really hoping that it was going to cross hereditary chief captain Morgan’s ancestral land. Oh well.... Maybe next time.
How many crows on the fence ?Did Pilsner foresee this day coming?
BTW can you count the rabbits?
There is certainly something different between the way things are done in America and how there are done in Canada. In America they appear to be quite pro business. Climate change and the environment does not get in the way of big projects all that much anymore in America thanks to Donald Trump. Trump has relaxed plenty of environmental rules and regulations that have gotten in the way of trying to help companies get their big projects up and running. And the American Indians appear to have no problem signing agreements. In Canada trying to get a project and jobs going seems to be quite the task. I guess that there really is a difference between capitalism in America and liberal socialism in Canada. I could be wrong, but that is what I am seeing here.
Terry Glavin: Uphold the rights of all Indigenous Canadians, not just anti-pipeliners
If Ottawa intends to usurp the rights of all those Aboriginal people who want the pipeline built, then Trudeau should come right out and say so
You’d think the country was convulsing in an apprehended insurrection or something. It isn’t. It is a very big deal, in its way, with tens of thousands of frustrated commuters and ships idled in the harbours and so on. There’s a lot of public aggravation and a whole lot of shouting and crazy rhetoric. But the flag is still flying on government buildings. People really need to calm down.
So let’s start there, and let’s also remember that while all the roadblock banners and the chanted slogans loudly declare that the point of it all is “Wet’suwet’en solidarity” and “reconciliation” and so on, that doesn’t make it true. If you’ve found yourself enraged by all this stuff, don’t blame the Wet’suwet’en. And don’t assume that these eruptions are even about Indigenous people, or about reconciliation, at all.
I cut my teeth as a cub reporter up in the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en territories. My first book was about their traditions and their laws and their courageous land-rights struggles. I spent years reporting from the front lines of Aboriginal rights battles. And the thing about all the goings-on right now that we’re being led to believe were kicked off by a rumpus involving the Unistoten blockaders on that remote stretch of the Morice River, is that the people now shouting the loudest about these things seem to be less literate about Indigenous rights and title than Canadians were, say, 20 years ago. Somewhere along the way, a strange thing happened.
It’s not just because the terminology has changed, although that’s part of it, too. The very reason we’re all using the term “Indigenous” now instead of “Aboriginal” is because of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is being waved around like holy writ, as though it’s come down to us from Mount Sinai, and as though the RCMP and Coastal GasLink are committing sins somehow proscribed by UNDRIP. They’re not. So let’s get that sorted right away.
If you take the time to read the whole thing you should notice that there isn’t really much to UNDRIP that in any substantial way adds to what was already there in Canadian law, in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, and in the way the Aboriginal rights section has been interpreted by judges in a clear and fairly steady and perfectly comprehensible line of reasoning, going back several years now, through the Sparrow decision and Vanderpeet vs. The Queen and Gladstone and Delgamuukw and Tsil’qot’in and on and on.
Somewhere along the way, a great many people seem to have gotten it into their heads that the doctrine of Aboriginal rights is intended as some kind of collective atonement, a penance in the form of some sort of national affirmative action program for Canada’s 600-odd First Nations communities. But that’s not what Aboriginal rights are for, and that’s not the point, in law, of reconciliation.
The current weirdness is at least partly attributable to a sappy, anti-historical and hyper-problematized comprehension of the challenges Indigenous communities face that is encouraged and epitomized by the diction and the tone and the tenor of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself, whenever he addresses these questions. Trudeau gives every impression that he thinks interminably apologizing for how wicked the rest of us have been, and continue to be, is what leadership is. And that what’s needed in order to give effect to this great civic virtue we’ve come to call “reconciliation” is to subject the whole damn country to some kind of never-ending shock therapy consciousness-raising teach-in exercise. Despite what the far-right has been saying, that’s all that he shares with the protesters. But in any case, that is not what’s needed.
For years — decades — Canadians in the main have been alert and acutely willing to assist in the restoration of flourishing, proud and healthy First Nations communities. One public opinion poll after another shows this to be true. Just this week, Ipsos-Reid’s polling shows that three-quarters of Canadians say Ottawa needs to immediately act to elevate the quality of life among Indigenous peoples.
That’s up 12 per cent from seven years ago. What the Ipsos-Reid numbers also show is that Canadians are getting fed up with all the disruptions over the past three weeks — 63 per cent want the police to take care of it. There is absolutely no contradiction in these numbers.
Canadians are starting to figure out that the main reason people are shutting down highways and commuter lines and seaports is because they can. Fair play to all the white “allies” who think they’re actually doing some good by acting like this, but come on. It’s cathartic and it’s fun and exciting and you don’t even get arrested. You can tell yourself you’re part of something big that’s going on, that you’re “making a difference,” and if anyone gives you backchat you can start comparing yourself with Rosa Parks and Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. But if what you really want is to shut down the whole liquefied natural gas complex that will be pouring product through the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which all those Indigenous communities from the Peace River country to the Gitga’at territories out on Pacific want to build and benefit from, then say so. Have the courage of your convictions.
Stop using a minority faction led by eight Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs as your pretext. You don’t even need it. You’ve got a point.
Most of that LNG is bound for China, and China isn’t using LNG to wean itself off coal. China is shutting down and scaling back its coal production all right, but it’s dodging its commitments to the Paris climate accord by digging more coal mines and building out more coal-fired electrical-generating capacity in Central Asia, South Asia and Africa than all of Europe’s coal capacity, combined.
As for the Wet’suwet’en imbroglio and its federally induced dysfunction of Indian Act band council jurisdictions competing with tribal council jurisdiction, the Assembly of First Nations’ Perry Bellegarde is quite right that Ottawa should have dealt with that years ago. For the time being, though, the main thing Ottawa should do is to admit that the honour of the Crown is at stake here, as successive Supreme Court of Canada rulings have stressed, and that the Crown in Right of Canada is burdened by a constitutionally derived fiduciary duty to protect and uphold the Aboriginal rights and title of all those First Nation communities along the pipeline route who want to get on with building it.
Aboriginal rights under Section 35(1) of the Constitution are not confined to such things as Indigenous people putting on button blankets and cedar hats to give drum and dance performances for you at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Aboriginal rights are very real, and meaningful, and enforceable, and West of the Rockies wherever there are no treaties in place, Aboriginal title confers upon First Nations the right to decide how traditional lands are used, and the right to benefit in a contemporary manner from those uses, to dig mines, to engage in industrial forestry, and to build pipelines. That’s the law.
If Ottawa intends to infringe upon or usurp the Aboriginal rights of all those Indigenous people who want the pipeline, then the Trudeau government should come right out and say so. Either way, Ottawa should uphold the honour of the Crown, discharge its fiduciary duty to those Indigenous communities, and uphold the damn law.
nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-uphold-the-rights-of-all-indigenous-canadians-not-just-anti-pipeliners
In the meantime the illegal blockades continue and the spineless little twit and his ineffectual ministers 'hope' they come down. I didn't get the Conservative MPs name who said this but he nailed it. "Hope is not a management tool."