I think we all agree that climate change and AGW is spurious and that the best way to handle it with the Suzuki-watching LIVs, for Conservatives, is with platitudes. Aboriginal land titles, however, may turn out to be a serious problem, aided and abetted by the anti-growth Liberals and NDP.
What is your take on the seriousness of aboriginal land titles?
Imagine we are descended upon by a fleet of alien ships, the ‘from up there’ kind of aliens.
How much credence were our land titles mean if they decided to settle here?
Harper’s been trying his damnedest to address aboriginal issues, and not just land titles. The real problem is that there are too many First Nations “Leaders” who have a vested interest in the status quo. With birthrates among First Nations the highest in the country, failure to deal with it will mean lost opportunities for everyone and another two or three generations of poverty, corruption and violence on the reserves.
What is your take on the seriousness of aboriginal land titles? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The way that Canada’s Constitutional Law works pertaininh to the distribution of powers from the old British North America Act, section 92, the law pertaining to real estate is relegated to the provinces, and so any federal court decision on aboriginal property rights does not have to be acted upon or even recognized by any provincial government.
Meanwhile, the The federal law regulates Native status and administration as a federal matter.
Until the various provincial governments recognize aborigional property rights, it is pretty difficult for native interests to gain expansion, outside of the lands already specifically granted or reserved to them by previous acts of the Crown and by various treaties.