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

[Cloud Cover]

Just wait until everybody understands the consequences of transferring the oversight control of the ALC to a council of First Nations, with the full power to tax farms and have full authority to control activity on ALR land province wide.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Just wait until everybody understands the consequences of transferring the oversight control of the ALC to a council of First Nations, with the full power to tax farms and have full authority to control activity on ALR land province wide.

I wonder if these brainiacs in the BC Provincial Government realize that the public is beginning to ask the question:

If the Provincial Government gives away all of it’s powers and authorities to unelected councils of First Nations that will, seemingly, make all of the important decisions for BC residents, why does the Provincial Government even need to exist?

 

[Brad Sallows]

I wonder if these brainiacs in the BC Provincial Government realize that the public is beginning to ask the question:

If the Provincial Government gives away all of it’s powers and authorities to unelected councils of First Nations that will, seemingly, make all of the important decisions for BC residents, why does the Provincial Government even need to exist?

I ask that question of provincial AND federal governments. When they fail to adequately represent enough peoples' interests and in fact actively militate against those interests, they will lose consent of the governed. ("Government" is the legislative, judicial, and what passes for an executive.)

If "they" cannot unfuck this situation quickly and recognize that "reconciliation" is bi-directional and that aboriginal local governments will have to "reconcile" themselves to federal and provincial governments having complete and ultimate authority over lands and resources (the latter having all authority over local governments in the bounds of its province) and to having exactly one class of citizenship and to having no governments from which anyone can be exempted from voting or running for office, I expect the country to start unravelling.

 

[Kirkhill]

Sneaking around behind the public's back won't go well...

I wonder if I apply my "shaking the dice" theory if this would apply.

As Vaughan points out there are more claims than land.
Different hunter-gatherers could scavenge the same land at different times of the year for different resources. And if they ended up at the same point at the same time then they had a discussion that may or may not have involved physical violence and slaves being taken.

I digress.

Back to shaking the dice.

We, in Alberta, want a pipeline to the coast. The federal government wants us to send them money. The two issues are related.

Both issues are blocked by these multitudinous bands of hunter-gatherers and their sub-divisions. Are you a council supporter, a hereditary supporter, a reserve supporter or an off-reserve supporter....?

Up in the Rupert area, decisions have been made and decisions have been challenged and everything has been blocked.
From an Albertan stand point this Musqueam, Tsawassen, Cowichan, Squamish, Sto'lo (I haven't heard them mentioned yet but I have no doubt their lawyers are in the offing) discussion in the heart of Green Country might be a blessing.

It is easy to want a park you can visit in some one else's back yard.
It is harder to accept that you are being evicted to create a park.

And for the natives? If the feds, and the settlers and the courts all go away, are you going to go back to salmon and berries?

Because if you want money you are going to have to give somebody something.

....

I wonder, if given all the rest of the discombobulation in the world, if somebody in Ottawa hasn't decided that this is as good a time as any to give the dice a rattle and bring the whole issue of BC governance to a head in hope of a better resolution.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

But without the economic common sense

Or the land giveaways, which this announcement seems to be a smokescreen for...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028599789320081907

The clips from the debate in the house are wonderful

 

[Kirkhill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028614984528519606

One of the clips posted mentioned that some villages had slave populations of up to 40%. Some were as few as 2% and the average seems to have been around 10 to 15%.

The problem with the slave economy is that if you lean to heavily on them the make like Moses and the Jews. Or Spartacus. Or Wat Tyler ---- and he didn't work out well for the local clergy and taxmen.