My innate rights stop when it becomes a commercial enterprise. And by that I mean if I am taking from somebody's business or using the resources of the land to make a profit.
Only if someone else uses the resources to make a profit? So, it's OK to go hunting in somebody else's garden, so long as the owner isn't using it to make a profit?
The question of ownership is difficult. Did I benefit from the sale of that land in some way? If yes then my innate rights are forfeit as I traded my right for a benefit. If, as is common these days, the govt sold or leased some land and I received no benefit from the transaction then my innate rights trump any contract with the govt for sale or lease of said resource. This also leads to the question of whether the govt actually has any right to sell or lease what is inherently mine.
Hold on. You just raised a question. If the government sells land to a private individual, say a farmer, and he is using the land to make a profit, do you or do you not have the right to take from it what you see fit?
Just a small correction....my ancestors are in England and France, not the US or Canada so my ancestors did nothing to your ancestors which is why I always ask why the f*ck I should be paying the bill for deeds done by others to others 400 years ago? ;-)
Be comforted. You ain't paid a lead penny to me for anything.
As to the rest of it, if you don't already understand corporate personhood and attendant responsibility, I have neither the time nor the patience to explain them.
I will note, simply, that you appear to feel you have the right to benefit from what Canadians did before you were born (like pushing the Indians off the land and building the roads, rails, public buildings, &c.). So if you share so freely in the benefits of your predecessors' labour and treasure, why should you not also share in their misdeed?
