Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "🚨🚨BREAKING - BC LEGISLATURE DECENDS INTO ABSOLUTE CHAOS AS MP ARMSTRONG REVEALS U.S. BASED TRIBES ARE NOW PLACING LAND CLAIMS IN BC AS WELL "You voted UNDRIP into law! This act of betrayal is selling BC for $0!" Eby: "I hope you get recalled!""
Ford says he treats First Nations like gold but they keep coming hat in hand : r/CanadianConservative - "This isn’t wrong though. I live 12 minutes from a reserve so they carry about in our community. Most of my communities social disruptions are straight from the Rez. They’ve been taught they don’t need to work, they don’t have any aspirations to do better. They bother folks just trying to get groceries pandering for handouts. They are visibly drunk and passed out in public spaces. They dedicate and carry on sexual acts in public… They pop out babies and the reserve cuts POs to buy stuff at Walmart. The reserve constantly hosts handout days, they get upgrade playgrounds built on the governments dime, our community has to fundraise to make a new one happen. On and on and on. At some point… the bandaid has to be ripped and they HAVE to learn how to fly on their own and fend for themselves. The government has created this very issue by the constant pandering. Why would someone try to reach for their own success when they know they’ll just be provided for? But at the same time what kind of quality of life is it to sit on your ass at home? It’s a vicious cycle. A hundred years from now if nothing changes, you think reserves will look ANY different when you drive through??"
The chiefs said this was "dangerous" - because it would cut off their grift
NELSON: Ottawa’s indigenous appeasement is bankrupting Canada - "There will come a day when a brave politician in this country will tell the truth about the endless shakedown indigenous leaders are engaged upon under the guise of protecting the land. Sadly, chances are that day is a long way off. So, until such a moment arrives, we’ll have to suffer through yet more pious platitudes about promoting diversity and recognizing the unique stewardship indigenous folk bring to the very heart and soul of Canada. It is total poppycock, of course. Do we see roving bands of Natives busily picking up litter in our national parks or resolutely bagging trash that lazy and ignorant drivers threw away along our highways, as a practical way to keep Canada pristine? Or are the various reserves across the country on par with Switzerland for being wonderfully neat and tidy? The answer is no. But what we do see is an immediate rush to the nearest microphone if any level of government intends building anything, anywhere in Canada. Simply suggesting this is cause for uproar. This is coming to a head again following the passing of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much-ballyhooed Bill C-5, a piece of legislation supposed to kick-start development across Canada and strengthen our economy so we’re less of a rollover when talking tariffs with the United States and its endlessly belligerent president. Whether it’s building roads, pipelines, docks or mines is immaterial. It is simply deemed wrong to do so because such projects are, by their very nature, a threat to the Indigenous way of life. (It certainly doesn’t threaten lawyers’ way of life — they can make a killing on the resulting fees charged as courts deal with the inevitable challenges that arise as soon as the word ‘build’ is uttered.) The latest legal challenge to Carney’s attempt to fast-track development was filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice this week, claiming Bill C-5 represents a ‘clear and present danger’ to First Nations' self-determination on their territories. After all — we were informed in an emotional press conference that followed the lawsuit’s launch — First Nation communities have a ‘sacred responsibility’ to protect the land. In response the prime minister trotted out the usual mouthings about consultation and respect, while probably wondering why he ever left banking to get involved in this charade. What he should have said is that Canada’s rapidly going broke; that we’re borrowing close to $100 billion this year alone and desperately need to boost our economy if we’re to continue spending such huge amounts of money. And then he could have pointed out the annual federal budget for Indigenous Affairs almost tripled between 2015 and 2025, growing from about $11 billion to more than $32 billion allocated this year. Oh, and the fire hose of spending didn’t end there. The Fraser Institute recently tallied up all the legal class actions involving First Nations settled without litigation. The estimated liabilities had reached $76 billion by 2023, as specific claims were settled at a rate four times higher by the Justin Trudeau regime than they had been under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Not surprisingly this has led to a significant transfer of land and money to First Nations. So, is it any wonder anything changing the status quo, no matter how vital to this country’s future, is therefore fair game for a legal challenge, because the end result will be more taxpayer cash doled out in compensation? It works every time. This wouldn’t be so bad if at least this continual shakedown subsequently improved the life of average indigenous people. But it hasn’t. Far from it: Natives are dying younger than ever, for Heavens sake. Take Alberta, for example. Between 2015 and 2021 the life expectancy dropped a shocking seven years for First Nations men and women. For males it fell from 67 to 60 years and for females 73 to 66 years. (For the rest of Canada it was 79 and 84 years respectively.) This is wrong at every level. But yet it continues because no politician has the guts to stand up and tell the truth: continue to cripple Canada’s economy by tying up all proposed development in legal knots and the money tap will be turned off. Some day someone will say this. But it won’t be this day."
Indigenous man caught with ‘killing machine’ rifle gets time served - " Jesse Garlow, a convicted drug trafficker who was under a firearms prohibition, had been in custody since June 7, 2024 when he was sentenced. Police initially pulled him over because the car he was driving was weaving. “I have determined that systemic and background factors have affected the degree of responsibility of this offender. Mr. Garlow is the personification of intergenerational trauma. I cannot imagine more sympathetic circumstances or mitigating factors that cry out for some compassion. Punishing him with a further period of incarceration for the sake of the common good would be unjust,” wrote Justice Brenda Green, who recently handed Garlow a suspended sentence and three years of probation... The judge saw a “clear, causal nexus between his father’s brutalization in residential schools and the trail of damage and devastation that slammed like a wrecking ball through the next generation. I cannot imagine a case with a more shocking example of the detrimental impact of colonialism, intergenerational trauma and the attempted cultural genocide by seizing children from their communities only to be placed in horribly abusive environments.” Garlow is Mohawk and a member of Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation... “A sentence reduction is not a reflection of a judge being ‘soft on crime.’ It is our obligation as the gatekeepers of justice to address, redress and hopefully ameliorate institutionalized abuse.”"
If he kills anyone in the future, this will be due to intergenerational trauma, racism and residential schools
Indigenous man caught with ‘killing machine’ of a rifle gets time served due to intergenerational trauma : r/canada - "As a FN person myself, this has gotten out of hand. Dude is younger than I am, and while he can claim some intergenerational trauma since the last IRS in Ontario closed in June 1970, it was more so a failure of the Six Nations community that failed him. We need to better focus on healing and providing support for our own communities, and that falls squarely on our own FN governments and the AFN. Many of us are educated, successful, and stable despite intergenerational trauma. Our leaders need to get their shit together, and stop sucking on the teet of trauma for their own gain."
Cowichan Tribes member handed pollution prevention order over huge dumping site - "A member of the Cowichan Tribes has been handed a pollution prevention order over a huge dumping site near Duncan, B.C., on Vancouver Island. James Anthony Peter is ordered to immediately stop dumping waste at the site, which is just above the Cowichan River. The dump is situated on Cowichan Tribes Reserve land near the city of Duncan. The amount of waste is estimated to exceed 290,000 cubic metres, according to provincial documents, and includes construction and demolition debris, residential waste, derelict RV trailers, plastics and metals. “It’s a huge, toxic soup of tires, ties, plastic… demolition debris,” community advocate Peter Rusland told Global News."
Such racism and contempt towards the traditional stewards of the land!
Cowichan Tribes member handed pollution prevention order over huge dumping site : r/ilovebc - "One thing I've learned since landing to live in BC is that for a people always talking about being one with nature, stewards of the land.... they treat the nature like shit."
"The whole "stewards of nature/one with the land" BS is only because they weren't technologically advanced enough to exploit resources, and didn't have the population to make it necessary. Like look at some of the larger nomadic tribes, they just completely stripped areas of resources then moved on."
"careful you, I got put in reddit jail for making mention of this on the canada sub."
"And when Bill C9 gets passed, this will probably be considered hate speech and get you thrown in prison."
"Anyone who hunts or spends any sort of significant amount of time outdoors will tell you that the “stewards of the land” are some of the most egregious offenders against it. When most of us set up a hunting camp, we leave absolutely no trace that we were there. Go check a native’s hunting camp after they leave. Bottles, cans, tarps, ropes, trash and bullet casings everywhere. Not only that, but they kill anything and everything, while blocking public roads with their vehicles. Also, just look at just about any Rez. These people are not stewards of the land."
It's all the fault of colonialism, of course
Crime has spiked since treaty settlement money was released, First Nations police say - "According to statistics gathered by Wikwemikong police, crime has increased substantially in the community since the summer of 2024, when money from a major treaty settlement was disbursed to residents. In his fall newsletter, Wikwemikong Police Chief Ron Gignac said statistics show a substantial increase in calls for service, arrests and charged persons since the Robinson Huron Treaty per capita distributions were issued in late summer of 2024... Since last summer, the number of people charged with crimes is up more than 70 per cent, motor vehicle crashes are up 69 per cent and drug possession cases and traffic complaints increased by 81 per cent."
Proof that they need even more money
Prince George healing centre helps Indigenous offenders avoid charges | Vancouver Sun - "Indigenous offenders in Prince George are able to avoid criminal charges for minor offences if they’re willing to enter into a new restorative justice program, the first of its kind in Canada, according to the B.C. First Nations Justice Council. Indigenous people who commit a non-violent crime can, instead of being charged by the RCMP, opt to stay at the Indigenous Diversion Centre for 90 days of treatment, at which point the charges will be dropped, according to council chairperson Kory Wilson. She and Prince George RCMP Supt. Darin Rappel signed a letter of agreement that would allow the diversion of offenders into the centre, where they would complete a program designed to help them address the root cause of their criminal behaviour, such as trauma or addiction, and heal and recover through an Indigenous cultural path that includes spirituality... Yung said the centre will help reintegrate people who commit crimes back into the community. “We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness” and mental-health issues. “It might not be the whole solution, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction,” Rappel said. He said diverting individuals at the point of police contact aims to reduce repeat-offending and improve safety because “enforcement alone does not solve complex social issues.”"
If this is so great and saves so much money, why not open this to non-indigenous people too?
Ottawa’s indigenous appeasement is bankrupting Canada : r/WildRoseCountry - "The sad part is that any political party that gets the balls to call it out is immediately attacked by the other (Liberals/NDP) for votes. This should be a bi-partisan issue but it’ll never be tackled. The last time it was by Harper there was such an uproar from Liberals etc that they lost an election in part because of it. The Hamilton Spectator ran a multi-part expose about the corruption amongst the chiefs and outright thievery and it didn’t matter at all. Canadians are fools"
Ottawa’s indigenous appeasement is bankrupting Canada : r/WildRoseCountry - "Hindering economic development and hitting people's bank accounts hard. We spend about $32B last year on FN. CRA collected around $660B revenue in total. That is a massive chunk of tax revenue. Fine if it actually breaks the cycle of poverty on reservations, but it isn't."
"AFAIK a lot of it is legal settlements. It seems like it’s getting FNs absolutely nowhere, though. >40% live on reserves, most of which are so ridiculously remote they might as well be separate countries altogether with very small populations. There’s no viable way to get any meaningful amount of infrastructure or economic activity to these places. Take a place like Fort Severn. Up on the Hudson’s Bay. How is there going to be any amount of development there? There’s a couple hundred people there, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to connect it in any meaningful fashion to the rest of Canada. Very few reserves are more than a couple thousand people. It’s just the unfortunate reality of living in these extremely remote, sparsely populated areas. Beyond some Native Siberian settlements in Russia, which are similarly disadvantaged and underdeveloped, there’s really no other comparison in the rest of the world in terms of the sheer isolation many of these reserves have. We sure can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on what amounts to a moral panic hoax on mass graves, though. That was a smart move."
"A closer to home example would be Shoal Lake Manitoba. The boil water advisory on that reserve basically helped Trudumb get elected the first time. And what ends up happening? The bands said, give us the money and we'll build it. Money disappeared, Again, give us the money and we'll build it. Money disappeared. Third time, give us the money and we'll build it. This time the government said, no, we're building it. And now they have a multi million dollar water treatment plant for a population of 652 people And it's somewhere ironic that Shoal Lake is where Winnipeg gets it's drinking water from"
Specific Claims: An Out-of-Control Program - "The federal government began to entertain such claims in 1974. The number and value of claims increased gradually until 2017, when both started to rise at an extraordinary rate. In fiscal year 2024/25, the government settled 69 claims for an astonishing total of $7.1 billion dollars. The evidence suggests at least two causes for this sudden acceleration. One was the new approach of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government toward settling Indigenous claims, an approach adopted in 2015 and formalized by Minister of Justice Jodi Wilson-Raybould’s 2019 practice directive. Under the new policy, the Department of Justice was instructed to negotiate rather than litigate claims. Another factor was the recognition, beginning around 2017, of “cows and plows” claims based on the allegation that agricultural assistance promised in early treaties—seed grain, cattle, agricultural implements—never arrived or was of poor quality. The specific-claims process should be terminated. Fifty years is long enough to discover legitimate grievances... The government should also require more transparency about what happens to these settlements. At present, much of the revenue paid out disappears into First Nations’ “settlement trusts”, for which there is no public disclosure."
Jim McMurtry on X - "Chief Rebecca Knockwood of the Fort Folly FN, with a population of just 36, manages millions annually in taxpayer support and lives in a nice house. I bet she doesn’t want decolonization."
Andy Lee on X - "Fort Folly First Nation is only 0.56 square km in size, but it receives millions per year in federal transfers. To give you an idea, it’s about the size of a large shopping mall. In 2022, it received almost $5 million. In 2023, close to $4 million - over $100,000 per resident."
Jim McMurtry on X - "• 400-member band is given agricultural land by BC government
• turns land into billion-dollar mall
• sells mall to Chinese
• leases remaining agricultural land to tech giants like Amazon
• gets fabulously wealthy
Moral of the story—they don’t want their old culture back."
Norway House Chief and Council’s Remuneration and Expenses Over $1.65 Million in 2023/24 for an On Reserve Population of 6883 : r/Manitoba - "Yea this is nothing new unfortunately. Then all you hear is that they're houses are falling down and everything is in disrepair (like water and sewage treatment plants) and all they gotta do is cry to the media about racism and colonialism, and then wave their empty hat at the government. The sums of money that get squandered by Chief and Council while the people in the community go without is ridiculous."
"Friend of mine used to call us racist for saying that. Then she moved back to the reserve, instantly cried foul, and then tried to run for council but soon realized it's just whoever has the biggest family. My grandfather spent a lot of his career checking structures. Nicest cars and biggest houses for chief and council, nothing for everyone else."
"More people need to see what goes on in some of those communities. Some really nice structures and facilities get built that go to absolute waste due to mismanagement. Brand new machinery ruined frequently due to lack of training and oversight. The kind of stuff a person would normally not get away with elsewhere. But no just buy new stuff again and repeat."
"You should see the valet line ups for native conventions at nice hotels. It looks like a head of state is arriving there are so many $100K black SUVs."
Norway House Chief and Council’s Remuneration and Expenses Over $1.65 Million in 2023/24 for an On Reserve Population of 6883 : r/Manitoba - "Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence went on hungerstrike in Ottawa last time there was an audit.. (she gained weight..) The audit stopped...."
"The fake hunger strike where people spotted people bringing her KFC buckets? She's also the same chief who payed herself more than the Prime Minister of Canada, and cried about improper housing in her community right after declining some housing trailers from a nearby mine. I remember this one well."
Indigenous leaders hopeful for Carney-led government on economy, reconciliation : r/canada - "I work on reserves building infrastructure, we are simply keeping them reliant on us so we can do what we want. All the chiefs care about is getting their 3rd cottage, 7th snowmobile, and 5th Ford raptor..while all the meth heads ask us workers for money/smokes"
"any time anyone tries to build any oversight from the government into the system they get called racist. Some bands have protections built in to stop it from happening with councils and whatnot that act as checks and balances, Others just have a king. And kings famously can become very corrupt very easily."
"The largest reserve by population in Canada currently has the local mafia family head as chief. Like it's pretty well known fact and everyone just plays along with it."
Indigenous leaders hopeful for Carney-led government on economy, reconciliation : r/canada - "It's crazy when you compare them to the Seminole or Cherokee tribes in the US. They were not given handouts and so they used their closeknit community, shared culture, and legal advantages to build paradise for themselves."
"The seminoles own the Hard Rock Cafe, and I believe own one of the largest cattle ranches in the state. They have done extremely well."
Indigenous leaders hopeful for Carney-led government on economy, reconciliation : r/canada - "My husband’s company donated 2 fire trucks to our local reserve and they sold them!"
Indigenous People of Canada, how do you feel about Canada Day, especially this year? : r/AskACanadian - "Fyi as someone who's Metis and lived on a reserve for a while it's really only the vocal minority of indigenous people who hate Canada and refuse to celebrate Canada Day. There are way more white liberals who hate Canada than indigenous people."
"I am Metis too, and we wouldn't exist without the fur trade and collaboration between the indigenous tribes, and the people who came here to earn a living. Our culture is such a beautiful mixture of many."
Indigenous People of Canada, how do you feel about Canada Day, especially this year? : r/AskACanadian - "Never really celebrated it but I will this year. I have a lot of issues with this country but I'm able to recognise the good things and that it's overwhelmingly better than the mess that is the US."
"lol remember 6 months ago when Reddit thought being patriotic was racist? Elbows up!"
Left wing patriotism in Canada is about hating the US
