Things had been going so well for Justin Trudeau. His new modus vivendi obliged him to stay out of the public eye and do nothing in particular. It was proving wildly popular – the Liberals have had a healthy lead in recent polls.
In the short term, that means meeting with premiers and coordinating a response that keeps food, propane, airplane de-icing fluid and other essentials flowing across the country. Canada is particularly vulnerable to these kinds of extortion efforts, given the choke points on its rail networks. While no-one wants another Oka, there are limits on the right to protest.
But the current crisis over the Coastal GasLink pipeline — which crosses the traditional lands of B.C.’s Wet’suwet’en First Nation, where it is supported by elected band chiefs but opposed by hereditary chiefs — suggests the broad goals of taking Indigenous groups out from under the paternalistic governance of the Indian Act is an absolute imperative.
The treaty process in Canada has moved at the pace of coastal erosion since the early 1990s. But people who have watched the self-government process unfurl say that there is a clear correlation between the quality of governance and outcomes. Simply put, First Nations that have left the Indian Act behind have performed better in terms of health and wealth. That may be because the Indigenous communities that made the move had a higher capacity and would have excelled in any case.
Self-government is unlikely to be the silver bullet that its proponents suggest. It is certainly not guaranteed to improve the lot of individual Indigenous Canadians in communities where property is communal.
just stop National 🇺🇸Post. The amount of disrespect you show your readers by publishing this garbage is sad.
It’s obvious: promise a lot + virtue signal for your own political benefit + deliver nothing = unrealistic expectations + anger
The alternative is Harper approach to just Barrel through.....that’s worked well. How about some ideas.....
So what’s the difference when Brian Mulroney was reluctant to have the Federal Goverment and the Canadian Forces involved in the Oka Crisis.
He probably checks his gas tank with a lighter.
Well, it couldn't be more glaringly obvious at what Trudeau has done, repeated and repeated again to explain what he didn't double down on, again. Yes, it's illegal.🤣
Geezuzz, how can you even write such crap!! All the previous governments federal and provincial have done such a wonderful job
or act like dad
No John, Harper’s rejection of the Kelowna Accord is the real root cause of today’s crisis.....and you aren’t stupid, you know that but seem content to play petty partisanship.
Did your boss Andrew help you pen this? Blame, blame, blame, but whatever you do don't include any former Conservatives in that blame game.
Well then, a 4 year old problem should be totally easy to fix then. I wonder why the provincial premiers can't get their shit together enough to even attempt to fix a problem that has clearly only existed for 4 years. It's easy, just go back to the way things were 5 years ago.
Enough with Trudeau Damage to Canada TrudeauMustGo TrudeauMustResign
More like the past 23 Prime Ministers. Dumping this completely on him is dumb and lazy
This problem clearly didn’t exist before Trudeau.
Yeah, we know Trudeau is meh. But the CPC is cancer. So what we gonna do?
That hashtagshutdownCanada is very offensive and Liberals must deal with this ASAP.
Partly true. There was a lot of damage done by the previous gov’t (remember the Kelowna accord?) which PMJT has not yet been successful at undoing. He needs to become better at fixing Conservative damage while the rest of us become better at ignoring Conservatives advise.
John Ivison gets constipation, blame Trudeau, as he failed to find cure. Seriously, as he is the first PM who has to deal with First Nations politics and blockade.
Trudeau has been failing for years
First Nations will never allow themselves to be reformed
He couldn’t finish one year of engineering at Montreal Polytechnique back in 2002. And people who voted for him thought he could resolve big files like that one? 🙄
What a joke. Harper did all the damage. Just like the deficit, Con's get mad when their messes aren't cleaned up quick enough by the Lib's.
I have trouble believing there is absolutely no integrity left in journalism. You are still people, with consciences. Is money this important? You are just going to let this government destroy our country and that's it?
Ya. Because Mulroney and Harper did such a good job of it. Your prejudice is showing again Mr I.
Trudeau is and always has been a fraud who uses progressive ideals to emotionally and psycholocally manipulate people in support of his own agendas Whe that fails he hands the reigns over to other manipulators who have a shred agenda like the eNGOs now exploiting First Nations
You can’t be mad at JT himself. He just doesn’t have the skills and tools (genetically speaking) to handle big, urgent files like that one. We should be mad at people that elected him.
Justin should recall the constitutional conference (s35 1982) where his dad failed 2 reach an agreement on the meaning of Aboriginal & Treaty Rights. Justin should gather all the historic treaty parties w the primary goal of renouncing COLONIAL UNILATERALISM once & for all!🤔
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