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Old Posted Mar 20, 2018, 1:42 AM
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the way " you, and a majority of Canadians" want to interpret Treaties doesn't matter a flying fuck. Look at how the Supreme Court interprets them consistently. you could start with Sioui (1990) which states that " treaties and statutes relating to Indians should be liberally construed and uncertainty resolved in favour of the Indians". The Supreme Court has consistently ruled along those lines on other cases.

you could also read the Constitution act and Charter to realize that the special legal rights that flow from treaties cannot be overturned by majority opinion.

education is the key. I am no expert but I know enough to realize that Canadians have to get their heads around this reality and deal with it in good faith. I plan to buy the book Headhorse recommended and I thank him for that.
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Old Posted Mar 20, 2018, 2:48 AM
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I have a few questions for the people who thinks indengous peoples need to just assimilate/conform/stop victimizing themselves, or whatever:

1) 4% of Canada's population is aboriginal, yet 23% of the federal prisons population is aboriginal. why is this happening? do you blame thousands of individual bad choices/bad people, or is the justice system biased?

2) aboriginal people working full time are paid an average of $26 per hour vs $27.41 for non-indigenous? in a fair, market based society, why would this discrepancy exist?
1) FASD. Period. That IS the problem. Over 40% in some communities. We need to start having a conversation about that. For everyone's sake.

2) That's not too bad really, but yeah, there should be no difference. On the other hand I'm not sure where you got that stat from but compare the difference between men and women and you will find a much larger divide.
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Old Posted Mar 20, 2018, 5:05 AM
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the way " you, and a majority of Canadians" want to interpret Treaties doesn't matter a flying fuck. Look at how the Supreme Court interprets them consistently. you could start with Sioui (1990) which states that " treaties and statutes relating to Indians should be liberally construed and uncertainty resolved in favour of the Indians". The Supreme Court has consistently ruled along those lines on other cases.

you could also read the Constitution act and Charter to realize that the special legal rights that flow from treaties cannot be overturned by majority opinion.

education is the key. I am no expert but I know enough to realize that Canadians have to get their heads around this reality and deal with it in good faith. I plan to buy the book Headhorse recommended and I thank him for that.
Treaties are overturned, ignored, thrown out and modified ALL THE TIME. You simply cannot expect a document created under certain specific set of circumstances to stand up long after those circumstances have changed significantly. Hey, how about if one day aboriginals become an absolute majority? Would you still want the treaties to remain in place then? One of the oldest known treaties was enacted sometime between 1272-82 B.C. between the Egyptians and the Hittites. Less than 100 years later the Hittite empire was gone. Worn out by repeated Assyrian attacks and finally wiped off the map by the mysterious Sea Peoples. Egypt should probably still claim rights to the Levant based on this treaty though. All your tantrums cannot change the fact that a treaty is just an aging piece of paper that will become irrelevant at some point for one reason or another.

Funny, I never even said anything about repealing the treaties.

Regarding their interpretation, yes, they have been interpreted too liberally (funny, aren't you guys the ones arguing that English common law sucks?) and this will change if and when the majority of people decide/realise that the S.C. justices are doing society a disservice and new, more conservative judges get appointed. Yup, Canadian democracy is imperfect and there is often a long delay between changes in people's views and when the judiciary finally catches up, just look at how long it took to legalize weed.
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Old Posted Mar 20, 2018, 6:12 AM
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Treaties are overturned, ignored, thrown out and modified ALL THE TIME. You simply cannot expect a document created under certain specific set of circumstances to stand up long after those circumstances have changed significantly. Hey, how about if one day aboriginals become an absolute majority? Would you still want the treaties to remain in place then? One of the oldest known treaties was enacted sometime between 1272-82 B.C. between the Egyptians and the Hittites. Less than 100 years later the Hittite empire was gone. Worn out by repeated Assyrian attacks and finally wiped off the map by the mysterious Sea Peoples. Egypt should probably still claim rights to the Levant based on this treaty though. All your tantrums cannot change the fact that a treaty is just an aging piece of paper that will become irrelevant at some point for one reason or another.

Funny, I never even said anything about repealing the treaties.

Regarding their interpretation, yes, they have been interpreted too liberally (funny, aren't you guys the ones arguing that English common law sucks?) and this will change if and when the majority of people decide/realise that the S.C. justices are doing society a disservice and new, more conservative judges get appointed. Yup, Canadian democracy is imperfect and there is often a long delay between changes in people's views and when the judiciary finally catches up, just look at how long it took to legalize weed.

Well then, when the Constitution of Canada is an aging irrelevant piece of paper we will certainly know where to go for further direction. I'm tapping out..
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Old Posted Mar 20, 2018, 9:44 AM
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i disagree that "the state" is oppressive, the problem is the state we have now oppresses the majority for the benefit of the few. the issue isn't the "state", it's who has power in the state. and again, your silly ideas of private property.. how does a free society have areas where you can't go to access the things you need to survive? the entire idea of private property is oppressive because by offering land and thus resources to a select few who have the means to own it, you're depriving others of using it for their guaranteed human rights to food/water/shelter. if someone owns all the water sources in Canada at some point and refuses anyone access to the water, how is that conducive to a free society?
Just an observation but I don't recall any of those things mentioned in the Canadian charter of Rights and Freedoms. None of the sections address that. So no, in short, those are not guaranteed human rights. Not in Canada anyway.

Taking a law abiding citizen's freedom away arbitrarily, no matter how justified it may seem, is not conducive to a free society either. The law exists to protect citizens from that sort of oppressive governmental action. The Magna Carta , you may have heard of it (kinda an important moment in history) was signed so that the private land owners back in the 13th century didn't get their land randomly taken from them by the crown for no reason. This is the basis for all human rights today. Private land ownership is fundamental to human rights.

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We start with the basics. You don't begin life with any entitlements, only a set of charter protected rights. Now certain people may have a legal entitlement to certain things based on negotiated agreements between parties but you don't automatically start off with a bunch of things that you get just for existing.
You can say that again.

My first home had around 4 outlets, an oven, and a wood burning stove for heat. No plumbing, no baseboard heaters, no bathroom. My "room" doubled as the "slop pail" room in the winter while an outhouse was the preferred dumping ground in the summer. I don't remember the view out the windows because the single pane windows were usually covered in plastic. I think we had a tv... black and white 13 incher. I'm not that old, people had colour tv's when I was a kid. My parents didn't have a post secondary education at the time. They both worked though. I guess we had one thing going for us though, the community well was at the end of our driveway. Oh and the backyard double as my zoo where bears would show up and eat our garden.

So what kind of entitlements did you not have when you started this life?
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