Posted on 11/30/2024 10:09:50 AM PST by CFW
A New Brunswick court has ruled that Aboriginal title, or the legal means by which Indigenous people claim property, can be used on privately held land in the Canadian province if indigenous nations go through the government to do so. The court decided the ruling earlier this month and it may set the precedent of Aboriginal title being used to sweep up privately owned property.
On November 14, Justice Kathryn Gregory of the Court of King’s Bench ruled in connection to a lawsuit made by six Wolastoqey Nations that sought Aboriginal title claims for over 50 percent of the land in the province of New Brunswick. Great swaths of land in the area are owned by oil as well as timber companies, per the Canadian Press.
Gregory ruled that several companies who were the defendants in the suit were to be removed and that the legal dispute would only be between the Canadian government and indigenous nations. The CBC reported that JD Irving, Acadian Timber Limited, and other companies have appealed the decision to be taken off the lawsuit.
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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?
“These tyrants in Canada are NUTS!”
Thank God such insanity could never happen in the USA. Right?
If they open that Pandora’s Box, there won’t be a square inch of the USA not subject to confiscation and returning to the natives.
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.
Yup—once property rights are gone then warring tribes is the inevitable result.
The Neanderthals have a prior claim on all of Canada.
Just find some bones and some DNA—create some clones—and then bye bye Canada.
Tea party time
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.
As a wise man once said... “You only own what you are WILLING and ABLE to DEFEND, by whatever means at your disposal”
See # 16
If I were a native I would claim all of Canada for myself and kick that punk ass Truedope out.
“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.”
They give up that idea when somebody else starts using the land. But yeah, if they had no conception of ownership then it couldn’t have been stolen from them
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