Canada’s rail transportation system was brought to a standstill, with fires lit under passing trains. The police stood helplessly while Justin Trudeau made ineffectual speeches about “dialogue” — you might have thought that things could not get any worse.
Think again, even with a pandemic raging and the Prime Minister in self-isolation, there’s a good chance that UNDRIP (the United Nations Declaration of the rights of Aboriginal Peoples) is coming. It is now the law in British Columbia, having been the chant on the lips of the Extinction Rebellion and other protestors as they forcibly blocked the doors of the B.C Legislative Buildings preventing legislators from entering.
While they chanted “UNDRIP, UNDRIP, UNDRIP” — they knew perfectly well that this legislation would allow virtually any Indigenous group to stop any resource development. Imagine, two federal cabinet ministers travelling, as described by CBC and other mainstream media, to “Wet’suwet’en territory” to meet a handful of people “hereditary chiefs.” That territory consists of Crown land, privately owned land, and entire towns not even mentioned by CBC.
Imagine your surprise if you heard that your house and property — bought and paid for — was described as within “Wet’suwet’en territory” — and apparently subject to claims for unspecified rent or expropriation.
The very real danger is that the Prime Minister — desperate to stop future blockades — will agree with the “hereditary chiefs” and push the enactment of the UNDRIP legislation federally. Doing so would grant the chiefs an absolute veto over resource developments that the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) sought.
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Zero confidence that Trudeau will put Canada first. Absolutely ZERO.