(3 minutes read) I have ardently supported the First Nation’s people my entire life. However, enabled by Premier Eby and former PM Trudeau, in my opinion, the FN leadership chose to separate from Canada and govern themselves according to a foreign model: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous (UNDRIP) gave FN the “rights to self-determination, culture, language, and social well-being.” (emphasis added)
The Cowichan Band property rights case has opened the eyes of people like myself that, through the FN’s decisions and legal strategies in bringing that case forward, the FN is aggressively and rapidly moving forward in its sole interest as a nation to acquire as much land as possible in the interests of its self-governance as a nation. It is acting against the interests of Canada.
This FN website cites Aboriginal law experts on what “self-determination means:
10. “[T]he principle [of self-determination] originally arose as merely a political claim by newly independent States and colonized peoples attempting to take control over their resources, and with it their economic and political destinies…
17. “There is a growing and positive trend in international law and practice to extend the concept and principle of self-determination to peoples and groups within existing States. While understood to no longer include a right to secession or independence (except for a few situations or under certain exceptional conditions), nowadays the right to self-determination includes a range of alternatives including the right to participate in the governance of the State as well as the right to various forms of autonomy and self-governance. In order to be meaningful, this modern concept of self-determination must logically and legally carry with it the essential right of permanent sovereignty over natural resources. The considerations that lie behind this observation must now be examined.” [Emphasis Added]
While the FN considers it a “positive trend” that self-determination, traditionally associated with a “newly independent state“, “no longer include[s] a right to secession or independence (except for a few situations or under certain exceptional conditions)” it means Canadians are being asked to continue to fund and protect their separate FN nation state using the hard earned tax dollars, military, infrastructure, etc. paid for by Canadians.
In my opinion, the UN’s UNDRIP is designed to give FN the Canadian cake and eat it too.
Based just on the above, in my opinion, the FN chose separation from Canada by adopting UNDRIP: “FN” no longer stands for “First Nations” but for” Foreign Nations”; “truth and reconciliation” is now “truth and separation”.
Moreover, the UN FN is far, far different and antithetical to our Canadian governance. Unlike Canada’s “two solitudes” of French and English-speaking Canadians”, the FN UN governance model is antithetical to our Canadian way of life and governance.
The UN FN foreign model is a post national, Orwell 1984 style model of communist totalitarianism state run as do the corporate elites in Belgium who dictate European Union laws that override those of European countries.
In my opinion, the UN UNDRIP adopted by the current FN and Liberal/NDP corporate elite, is a slow and steady drip of the blood, sweat and tears of all of our forefathers who fought and died for this country to be free, and the many First Nation’s people with whom we fought along side for the common goals of freedom and democracy.
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