I should have noted that the claim “The Musqueam people have been stewards of their traditional territory since time immemorial” is based on questionable hearsay evidence -- statements made outside of court that are presented in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted -- a form of documentation normally considered inadmissible unless it meets very specific exceptions recognized by law.
These exceptions have been expanded by woke judges to include unsubstantiated indigenous oral history based on the premise that Canada's aboriginals, unlike all other people, never prevaricate, distort, misinterpret, forget, or exaggerate.
The hearsay evidence in cases like these, even if truthful, originated hundreds of years ago and was passed down orally from generation to generation by people without a written language. Illiteracy is all the more reason to doubt their accuracy, given that oral history, even if this "history" is only a few minutes long, is subject to change whenever it is repeated, as a wealth of scientific evidence has shown (see https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=oral+history+is+fallible+&atb=v322-1&ia=web).
Oral history = because I said so. Yes, let's put the issue of private property rights in the crosshairs of activists judges using the "because I said so" standard of evidence and upend fee-simple titles we have all assumed confer ownership. And how many years will it take to sort out the various oral history-based claims among competing Indigenous groups? Canada is not a serious country.
Can our politicians see beyond the end of their noses or are they so anxious for kudos for being “woke” that they ignore the long term repercussions for making stupid decisions? When BC accepted UNDRIP as law, it meant their Supreme Court HAD to base their decisions on land rights using UNDRIP. A scary thing is under Justin Trudeau, Canada endorsed UNDRIP “without qualification”. So what does that mean for the rest of Canada? Will there be a law suit coming in the future that claims all of Canada for the Indigenous people?
How many trillions of our tax dollars have already been paid to the indigenous people by our governments? Have we not yet paid for BC and the rest of Canada?
It is interesting that most tribes of Indians claim to have been stewards and owners of the land for “ thousands of years “ when no European, African or Asian tribe can claim the same even with WRITTEN proof of existence as a tribe. Anal history through the study of scatology has more value than the shreds of oral history that the courts rely on. I maintain that any tribes that existed thousands of years ago and more recent have long been enslaved and eaten by by successive invasions of Asians who claimed patches of land through primitive warfare.
I should have noted that the claim “The Musqueam people have been stewards of their traditional territory since time immemorial” is based on questionable hearsay evidence -- statements made outside of court that are presented in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted -- a form of documentation normally considered inadmissible unless it meets very specific exceptions recognized by law.
These exceptions have been expanded by woke judges to include unsubstantiated indigenous oral history based on the premise that Canada's aboriginals, unlike all other people, never prevaricate, distort, misinterpret, forget, or exaggerate.
The hearsay evidence in cases like these, even if truthful, originated hundreds of years ago and was passed down orally from generation to generation by people without a written language. Illiteracy is all the more reason to doubt their accuracy, given that oral history, even if this "history" is only a few minutes long, is subject to change whenever it is repeated, as a wealth of scientific evidence has shown (see https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=oral+history+is+fallible+&atb=v322-1&ia=web).
Oral history = because I said so. Yes, let's put the issue of private property rights in the crosshairs of activists judges using the "because I said so" standard of evidence and upend fee-simple titles we have all assumed confer ownership. And how many years will it take to sort out the various oral history-based claims among competing Indigenous groups? Canada is not a serious country.
Can our politicians see beyond the end of their noses or are they so anxious for kudos for being “woke” that they ignore the long term repercussions for making stupid decisions? When BC accepted UNDRIP as law, it meant their Supreme Court HAD to base their decisions on land rights using UNDRIP. A scary thing is under Justin Trudeau, Canada endorsed UNDRIP “without qualification”. So what does that mean for the rest of Canada? Will there be a law suit coming in the future that claims all of Canada for the Indigenous people?
How many trillions of our tax dollars have already been paid to the indigenous people by our governments? Have we not yet paid for BC and the rest of Canada?
It is interesting that most tribes of Indians claim to have been stewards and owners of the land for “ thousands of years “ when no European, African or Asian tribe can claim the same even with WRITTEN proof of existence as a tribe. Anal history through the study of scatology has more value than the shreds of oral history that the courts rely on. I maintain that any tribes that existed thousands of years ago and more recent have long been enslaved and eaten by by successive invasions of Asians who claimed patches of land through primitive warfare.
This is our future as we become a minority.
https://substack.com/@earljanus/note/c-238346132?r=6tqqgn
Aboriginal should pay extra for cultural appropriation