Posted on 07/19/2025 7:02:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Several First Nations leaders have walked out of a meeting with Mark Carney, as an event the Canadian prime minister hoped would assuage their concerns over his Building Canada Act instead left many with growing concern that it would violate their rights.
Carney has spent recent weeks promoting the act, which passed last month as part of Bill C-5 and which he says is a key part of his campaign promise to ensure Canada’s economy is less dependent on the US under Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened huge tariffs.
The legislation sets out a framework for major building projects, such as pipelines and mines to exploit natural resources infrastructure including ports, railways and electricity grids.
Under the act, certain projects designated as “nation-building” could be fast-tracked and override environmental and other planning regulations. To qualify, it says the projects should strengthen Canada’s autonomy and security, provide economic “or other” benefits and support the interests of Indigenous peoples, while meeting Canada’s objectives to tackle the climate crisis.
The government has not yet said which projects will be fast-tracked, but the minister responsible for Indigenous relations, Rebecca Alty, said it would consult provinces, territories and Indigenous peoples to agree those suitable.
Earlier this week, however, nine First Nations in Ontario communities launched a constitutional challenge against the federal government over Bill C-5, and against the province over similar legislation recently passed there.
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The begging for donations by the Guardian at the end of the article was particularly distasteful.
They should tell Carney they’ll be checking out options on this side of the border.
51st state or not? 41M people > Cali. 2.7T GDP ~= Texas. 3.8M sq mi ~= the US. Other than the frogs it seems like a good bargain.
Looks like Bill C-5 is useless for Brookfield Carney without Native support.
How ‘bout that?
They’re not called “Native Canadians.”
It’s the Canuck term for *Native Americans* or what we used to just call *Indians*.
It’s actually more accurate because the Americans never had a native population. All the inhabitants the explorers met here allegedly came over the ice bridge during the last ice age.
So the Indians were just here first. But they are not native.
When were the “First Nations” given veto power of pretty much all infrastructure investment and resources production in Canada?
It wasn’t like this 50 years ago, and certainly Canada has increasingly become a woke, race-mongering political cesspool - but what act or regulation enabled this slippery-slope?
Elbows up
pants down
bend over
here it comes
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