Who doesn't think that government officials and "indigenous" groups will not get together to steal which ever land is considered "prime" property?
The damage done to Canada with the communist Trudeau in charge is probably too much for the nation to ever recover. We can only hope the election 3 weeks ago, stopped us from going down the same path (except in California--I believe it's too late for them).
When a government destroys private property rights, a violent uprising is not far behind.
These tyrants in Canada are NUTS !
Holy carp!
Well, it's Nazi Canuckistan, after all.
Where in the hell is canuck_conservative to defend his leftist buddies?
Notice they have to go THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT to seize private property.
This is communism, plain and simple.
If this stands, what’s to stop tribes from taking all of Canada? After all, they were there first. OTOH, does possession count over a written deed? If so, then those who possess it now have the right to it. Plus, they also have written deeds.
Fidelito smiles. The rotten communist apple doesn’t fall far from the revolutionary tree.
Private property rights are the bedrock of freedom.
It was my understanding Indians did not ever own the land they lived upon. They would laugh the white man for thinking land could be owned.
More places for the injuns to dump garbage and old cars.
In that case, it should go to the Neanderthals.
This is a test case for the Tribes in Canada - if successful there, the Tribes here will push ahead and try to take private non-Indian property for their own. SCOTUS will side with them, as they always do. If you read the US Constitution closely, you will discover that the Tribes are a Named Entity. We as citizens are not, we are just generalized, and so not protected. As the Court has stated on 3 occasions, our ‘rights’ are mere privileges and can be revoked at any given time. Only the Tribes have Rights enshrined in the body of the Constitution itself.
If I were a native I would claim all of Canada for myself and kick that punk ass Truedope out.
Welcome to Canifubar.
Something similar happening in the U.S. was the plot of an awful (but disturbingly prescient) movie called Americathon (1979, John Ritter), where the Supreme Court ruling was that the U.S. owed the Indians enough money to bankrupt the country.
In native culture, the Great Spirit owns everything. Humans have no claim or title to anything on Earth.
In practice, the Indians did not honor that stated belief. The various tribes fought each other constantly for the right to dwell and hunt in various areas.
To do away with deeded title to land is to invite savage and bloody battles over land. You cannot have a civilized society which does not honor title to land. Without such rights, you are in a never-ending fight to the death over what you CLAIM to own. If you build a house, you must kill anyone trying to take it from you.
Watch the movie, “Dr. Zhivago.” See how the Soviet Union communists seized everything privately owned and how well that went.
“You have the right to land owned by others”
“We want your house”
“Land owned by others that are not me”
The Canucks need to make them fight for it. See how bad they really want it.
The court correctly ruled that tribes can't sue private land holders for that land, that's a function of the Canadian government. Rather than dismiss the case which might have been the proper option, the judge rather removed those entities which no relief could be sought against.
At the same time, that court effectively ground to a halt all other legal actions against private parties for tribal claims to the land across Canada (including the rather insane SovCit queen and her minions...) by directing these claims be against the Canadian government and subject to all the rules of such claims.
Should they prevail, which is highly unlikely, that simply means that the Canadian government, if it chooses, would then have to buy the private lands to place into their version of trust for tribal uses (and like in the US, the Canadian government could also lease such land to private entities to harvest resources from that land.)
Why just private land? Shouldn’t they have the same claim on government and/or public land?
Sounds like good ol’ South/Central Amercan “land reform” ...
Communism is all about taking property from the productive and giving it to the indolent ... with The State taking a cut.
See also Rhodesia. And South Africa.
Damn them all ...