B.C. First Nation signs multimillion-dollar deal with gas pipeline company

[taxslave]

Funny how in Ontario the police can't even clear a bouncy castle full of kids without the Emergency Powers Act, while in BC they let terrorists run loose, destroying private property and attacking working people. Can't even catch them in a remote area with 1 road in and out.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada.

Doing so would prove to the Canadian public and Indigenous communities that the federal government is serious about seeing it completed.

Make no mistake: Killing the project would be devastating for many Indigenous communities along the corridor.

Joseph Quesnel: Killing Trans Mountain project would devastate Indigenous communities — Vancouver Sun

Opinion: The Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline expansion is to Canada's advantage, and the federal government needs to declare that with legislation

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown how dependent many European countries are on Russian oil and natural gas imports. Ottawa’s professed commitment to help NATO allies has finally turned our government’s head to the importance of energy security globally.

But even before the growing global energy crisis, the federal government should have declared through legislation that the Trans Mountain expansion is to the general advantage of Canada, particularly because of its importance to Indigenous communities.

The facts speak for themselves. To date, Trans Mountain says it has signed 69 agreements with Indigenous groups in B.C. and Alberta that represent more than $600 million in benefits and opportunities.

 

[petros]

TMX only benefits one nation, China. They bought oil and they want their oil.

 

[Dixie Cup]

I'm wondering if TMX will ever be completed. Somehow I think it won't be ever....as it goes against what Trudeau & his WEF friends clearly want which is to make us all poorer & themselves richer.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm wondering if TMX will ever be completed. Somehow I think it won't be ever....as it goes against what Trudeau & his WEF friends clearly want which is to make us all poorer & themselves richer.

It is amazing and tragic that if you got enough power, you can be dumber'n a stump and an obvious compulsive liar and still win.

Nice hair helps.

 

[petros]

I'm wondering if TMX will ever be completed. Somehow I think it won't be ever....as it goes against what Trudeau & his WEF friends clearly want which is to make us all poorer & themselves richer.

China bought and paid for big chunk of Canadian oil. They want their oil or else. That is the only reason the line wasnt killed by Justin Urinal. You never thought it was for BC and WA did you?

 

[The_Foxer]

Hereditary chiefs have no legal power. The entire notion of hereditary chiefs was done away with in the late 50s and replaced with democratically(in

They do actually I think. The courts relatively recently acknowledged that they do have some legitimacy outside of the specific boundaries of the reserve as i recall.

 

[Ron in Regina]

In a December op-ed for the National Post, representatives of the Wet’suwet’en’s Gidimt’en Clan questioned the hereditary status that pipeline opponents were claiming for themselves, and condemned them for inviting “violent people into our territories.”

The builders of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline had gone through all the motions of getting the project approved, including securing the endorsement of the elected band council of the Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation.

In the immediate aftermath of the November blockade, Wet’suwet’en chief Maureen Luggi similarly issued a statement saying the actions were contrary to the wishes of “most Wet’suwet’en people,” some of whom were among the workers trapped in the Coastal GasLink camp.

Nevertheless, the blockades began entirely because a minority faction of Wetʼsuwetʼen claimed hereditary status that superceded the power of the elected council. And as members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation would write in a 2021 op-ed for the National Post, dissidents were allegedly misrepresenting their hereditary positions and the power it gave them within traditional Wet’suwet’en law.

Nevertheless, among Coastal GasLink opponents, the Wetʼsuwetʼen’s anti-pipeline chiefs have often been portrayed as the community’s sole legitimate representatives.

Anyway, in an intriguing coda to the whole saga, a B.C. court just threw out the notion that Wetʼsuwetʼen traditions had any kind of standing in a Canadian legal context.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wet-suwet-en-chief-coastal-gaslink-conviction-9.7180386

The court affirmed that attempting to use Indigenous law to overturn a contempt conviction for breaching a Canadian court order constitutes an impermissible "collateral attack".

Wet’suwet’en chief loses criminal contempt appeal in pipeline case - Northern Sentinel

Chief Dsta’hyl (a.k.a. Adam Gagnon) served six months house arreast for breaching CGL injunction

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During the appeal Dsta’hyl never put his conduct at issue; he very publicly acted contrary to the injunction. Nor did he challenge the trial judge’s conclusion that the mens rea (intent) for criminal contempt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Rather, Dsta’hyl’s defence team submitted to the Court of Appeal (COA), that the trial judge erred by rejecting the oral history evidence he tendered to support his argument that he was acting in accordance with his duties as a chief (hereditary and not elected) and the Wet’suwet’en law of trespass and by concluding the common law could not expand to recognize this novel defence.

 

[petros]

The builders of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline had gone through all the motions of getting the project approved, including securing the endorsement of the elected band council of the Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation.

Nevertheless, the blockades began entirely because a minority faction of Wetʼsuwetʼen claimed hereditary status that superceded the power of the elected council. And as members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation would write in a 2021 op-ed for the National Post, dissidents were allegedly misrepresenting their hereditary positions and the power it gave them within traditional Wet’suwet’en law.

Anyway, in an intriguing coda to the whole saga, a B.C. court just threw out the notion that Wetʼsuwetʼen traditions had any kind of standing in a Canadian legal context.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wet-suwet-en-chief-coastal-gaslink-conviction-9.7180386

The court affirmed that attempting to use Indigenous law to overturn a contempt conviction for breaching a Canadian court order constitutes an impermissible "collateral attack".

Wet’suwet’en chief loses criminal contempt appeal in pipeline case - Northern Sentinel

Chief Dsta’hyl (a.k.a. Adam Gagnon) served six months house arreast for breaching CGL injunction

northernsentinel.com

During the appeal Dsta’hyl never put his conduct at issue; he very publicly acted contrary to the injunction. Nor did he challenge the trial judge’s conclusion that the mens rea (intent) for criminal contempt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Rather, Dsta’hyl’s defence team submitted to the Court of Appeal (COA), that the trial judge erred by rejecting the oral history evidence he tendered to support his argument that he was acting in accordance with his duties as a chief (hereditary and not elected) and the Wet’suwet’en law of trespass and by concluding the common law could not expand to recognize this novel defence.

Next they'll try UNDRIPA.

UNDRIPA stands for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (S.C. 2021, c. 14), a Canadian federal law passed in June 2021.523c7c

What it is
It affirms the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) — a 2007 UN human rights instrument — as a "universal international human rights instrument with application in Canadian law."

The Act requires the Government of Canada to take measures to ensure federal laws align with UNDRIP and to develop/implement an action plan in partnership with Indigenous peoples.c9f8e0

It responds to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action and aims to advance reconciliation.

Key elements
Purpose: Promote recognition of Indigenous rights, self-determination, free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) in certain contexts, cultural protections, and address historical injustices.
Action Plan: Released in 2023 (covering 2023–2028), it includes 181 measures across shared, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Modern Treaty priorities.7b092e

It applies federally. Provinces/territories have their own approaches (e.g., British Columbia’s DRIPA — Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, 2019 — which is similar but provincial in scope).392358

Context in British Columbia
Since you're in New Westminster, BC, note that BC’s DRIPA incorporates UNDRIP into provincial law, requiring laws to be interpreted consistently with it. Recent court decisions (e.g., 2025 BCCA) have confirmed it creates enforceable obligations.0b3927

UNDRIPA (and UNDRIP more broadly) is influential in areas like resource development, child and family services, land rights, and government-Indigenous relations, but implementation remains ongoing and sometimes contentious.
If you have a more specific question (e.g., about its impact on a certain sector, the Action Plan details, or BC comparisons), let me know!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Next they'll try UNDRIPA.

UNDRIPA stands for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (S.C. 2021, c. 14), a Canadian federal law passed in June 2021.523c7c

Oh, THAT UNDRIPA!

First I thought you were talking about the pills for treating gonorrhea.