‘The railways got very wealthy on our land’: How rail’s colonial past made it a target for blockades

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For many of the First Nations stalling traffic during the Wet’suwet’en standoff, railroads are a symbol of dispossession and colonial control that goes back generations. Here’s a primer on that history

 

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Send the army.... Now ... Stop pussyfooting

Who did the current Aboriginals take the land from? There were wars and land went back and further. And there migrations of people throughout Canada before the Europeans arrived. Perhaps the current Aboriginals are the true colonialists.

Of course, that is the culture to provide stable supplies and strong connectivity as displayed in Europe and currently in China who is presently attempting at another silk road initiative that brought so much wealth in the past. Please stop the oppressive colonial nonsense talk.

Where does your land start and stop?! Don’t say all of Canada, because we live here now and we call Canada our land too! That ain’t going to change!

Railways got very wealthy on all of our land in Canada. They got huge public subsidies to build in return for committing to provide passenger service with no end. Then the government let them off the hook resulting in 3rd world service today.

So now it's not about pipelines? 🤣🤣

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