British Columbia NDP Majority Government 2024-(no later than) 2029

[Halifax Tar]

So you favour a Canadian Republic and not a monarchy, then?

Yes. Whoops you weren't asking me

 

[Brad Sallows]

My problem with that, as you state it, is that I wish to assist my children and their children by passing on my accumulated property to them as their inherited right.

I mean there should never be a collective right of a political entity defined by hereditary identity politics, and probably not any kind of identity politics.

The more people squeezed into urban concentrations, the more dependent they are on the producers of everything needed to prevent them from collapsing into warring tribes of howling savages. Cities are strong in fiscal and social senses but immensely fragile under extreme physical circumstances.

 

[Kirkhill]

I mean there should never be a collective right of a political entity defined by hereditary identity politics, and probably not any kind of identity politics.

The more people squeezed into urban concentrations, the more dependent they are on the producers of everything needed to prevent them from collapsing into warring tribes of howling savages. Cities are strong in fiscal and social senses but immensely fragile under extreme physical circumstances.

Agreement.

Though reading up on this issue I have a sense that Alberta's problems originate in BC.

Douglas, like HBC traded fairly with the locals to establish settlements of limited area for commercial purposes.

Concurrently, back east, the Crown was in the process of enfranchising Indians and converting them into landholding Bitish Subjects with all the same rights as any other British Subject. This was being accomplished by means of the Gradual Civilization Act of 1857 and the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of1869. Those were largely the work of Sir John A Macdonald and enjoyed support among natives in Upper Canada. They, along with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 seem to have informed Ottawa's position on the early numbered treaties, 1 to 5.

BC saw things differently. Rather than providing the locals with an allowance of 160 to 640 acres per family, as was happening on the prairies, allotments equivalent to what new sttlers were being granted, BC was restricting the Indians to one acre a head.

The Ottawa Liberals imposed the Indian Act in 1876, five years after BC joined Confederation, nominally accepting the supremacy of Ottawa in return for a railroad to the east. They got their railway in 1885 but continued to argue with Ottawa over Indian lands to at least 1938 when BC transferred administration, control and benefit of Indian lands to the Federal Crown from the Provincial Crown by Order in Council 1036.

People born in 1938 are now 87 years old. They are the tribal elders. They remember their parents and grandparents. And their grievances.
Those memories are at least as fresh to them as Ukrainian and Polish memories of Russians and Germans.

In 1877 the prairie tribes trusted Ottawa. They didn't trust Washington. It doesn't sound like BC did much to earn local trust.

And now BC, Aberta and the rest of Canada suffer.

As said, this is a mess that needs fixing.

 

[Cloud Cover]

“In 1877 the prairie tribes trusted Ottawa. They didn't trust Washington. It doesn't sound like BC did much to earn local trust.”

Your g*ddamned right they didn’t- With anybody, and not just First Nations.

That being said, this land right here beneath my feet is mine. I consider it permanently ceded and that’s the end of it.