Didn’t the British Empire win its wars against the indigenous tribes that occupied portions of what is Canada today? Yes, but those tribes want it back and the court has conceded to their request. They lost the war but somehow still win the land.
Britain lost its war in the American Revolution. Could Britain not demand that back?
This is how ludicrous land claims have become in Canada. Every country in the world has at one time or another been occupied or possessed by people or nations who lost control of it—usually through war.
It’s time for Canada’s First Nations to get on with their lives and accept the verdict of history. They lost the war. They must try living like any other Canadian and stop expecting the government to award them special status and a parcel of land.
Canada used to be one of the foremost democracies in the world. It fought in two world wars from the very beginning of those conflicts and was one of the three countries that stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Today it is a country awash in woke ideology, oppressive gun laws and escalating censorship.
If courts can give away land duly owned and occupied by Canadian citizens based on ancient claims, is it even a country?
The recent decision by the Supreme Court of BC to grant huge tracts of some of the richest real estate in Canada to the Cowichan tribe does not just undermined private property rights but potentially demolishes them.
What the First Nations demand in Canada, they get. And even if this decision is being appealed by BC to the Supreme Court of Canada, you can bet this legal body will side with the forces of “reconciliation." This effectively adds up to allowing indigenous bodies to have their cake and eat it too, or continue to receive billions of dollars in government subsidies and seize land they claim to have “owned” centuries ago—all because they didn't sign a treaty after they lost the war.
Mayor Malcolm Brodie of Richmond, where most of the people affected by the Cowichan land grab live, is so concerned about the ramifications of the BC court’s decision that he has invited landowners to get together for a townhall meeting to discuss how this might have some serious consequences for their future—like losing their homes at the whim of a court.
Whether the federal government is occupying your farm or the Natives want your backyard, property rights are anything but sacrosanct in Canada.
It is a recipe for chaos in a country that has always been defined by its politeness, good manners and subservience to so-called good government and efficient governance.
It could well be a blueprint for civil war as overtaxed Canadians finally understand that you can’t have a race-based country that grants special status and title to its aboriginal caste.
Quite simply, it is ludicrous to suggest that any race or ethnicity has special legal status in a country and can claim any piece of property it so desires because their ancestors once possessed it. It is even more outrageous to maintain that claim when those ancestors lost that land to European settlers through conflicts that lasted for decades.
But foolish, delusional Canadians have been reinforcing that claim through “land acknowledgements” that must be read like a sacred mantra at gatherings in Canada from local municipal governments to Rotary Club meetings.
Incredibly, even when the always politically-correct King Charles III read the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the last Parliament in May, he made the ridiculous claim that Canada’s government sits on “unceded territory.”
“I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people,” said the King.
Canadians were so used to hearing this rubbish that few even questioned why Canada’s constitutional monarch and ultimate head of state would suggest Canada isn’t even a country but some kind of criminal force occupying stolen lands. It is not. Canada won.
In explaining why the Cowichan tribe should have the right to dispossess potentially thousands of people living on the outskirts of Vancouver, the law firm of Osler pointed out that “The Court found the Cowichan exercised effective control over the Cowichan Title Lands prior to and as at 1846. The Cowichan were the only Indigenous group to occupy these lands, and they used intimidation and force to keep other Indigenous groups out of these lands. Thus, the Cowichan exclusively occupied the Cowichan Title Lands.”
So the Cowichan, like every Indian tribe on the North American continent, used “intimidation and force” to justify and maintain its sovereignty—just like the British Crown would do. War between competing tribes was preponderant during the pre-colonial period. They fought each other and kept the land they won.
These lands were won by the British Empire through conquest and today no one should be proclaiming that these lands are in any way “unceded.”
Less than a million people—which is about what the indigenous population was at the time the European colonial powers arrived—could never claim to own an entire continent. Their ancestors cannot today decide to steal parcels of land that people have legally bought and paid taxes on.
Is Canada a country that recognizes private property and the equality of all its citizens, or not.
It is not. It is on a course of self-destruction and political cannibalization.
