Wet'suwet'en supporters and Coastal GasLink opponents protest 20 government buildings throughout Victoria, Feb. 14, 2020.Colleen Collins is interim CEO and vice-president, Marla Orenstein is director of the Natural Resources Centre at the Canada West Foundation.In December, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – part of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – tabled a decision.
But this minor verbal smack points to a bigger problem: the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples . The Canadian government first endorsed the aspirations of the Declaration in 2010. But there is a good reason why Canada has not yet adopted it into legislation: because actually implementing the wording of the Declaration under Canadian law is extremely difficult.
It will take a lot of time and money to figure out how to implement UNDRIP in a way that is faithful to the intentions of the Declaration, meaningful to Canada’s Indigenous peoples and workable within the framework of the Constitution and existing legislation. But as Ms.
globebusiness Send in the Cowboys .
globebusiness Tens of billions a year, what do you get ? Nothing but headaches.
globebusiness They are bleeding us dry enough !
globebusiness I already pay for all their beer and drugs with my tax dollars while they do nothing. Enough with the guilt trips, we've done our part, for long enough. No more handouts based on race
globebusiness Screw them! Talk to me when they start paying taxes.
globebusiness What 'obligations'?
globebusiness Apparently no other group of Canadians have ever had to sell their house etc for a highway or pipeline etc..
globebusiness the Canadian people have NO 'obligation' to Indigenous peoples, the rothschilds, the flat lie royals, the knights of malta/jacobins and the black nobility have a list of them a mile long!...and the Canadian people aren't 'BAILING THEM OUT'!
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