B.C. Premier David Eby is trying to roll back legislation enshrining Indigenous rights—and he isn’t the only one.
Lawyer Pam Palmater joins Desmond Cole to discuss the corporate resource rush and right wing backlash behind the surging attack on Indigenous peoples.
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The “stolen rights” argument was already answered by the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Queen/King whose claim of all Canada is defined in the name we have for this fact, “Crown Lands.” People buy some of it when it’s “released.” My parents did back in 1956. We own it and pay taxes on it. Nobody else does.
Under English Common Law, which assigned us as a “dominion” we enjoyed a patriarchy under which a man owned his wife. But nobody else could then own her. Land is like that too.
Lawyers are pulling apart the wrong thing on the questions of Canadian land. We do not have a constitution. Most people will be shocked to learn this. We do not have sovereignty. The governor general represents the crown. The PM represents, well, not us.
We have a Supreme Court determination on the rights of Canada’s Indian/Dene/First Nations tribes. We need to come to grips with it. Only the Charter is genuinely Canadian-made. The constitutional stuff is just reflecting our status as a colony. Pierre Trudeau did not “bring anything home” back in 1982.