Subject: Re: Canadian Court: "Indigenous" People Have a Claim on the Homes of Canadian Citizens
On 2026-08-22 12:54 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Aug 22, 2026 at 7:36:19 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-08-21 7:32 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 05:29:05 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Titles held by Canada (mostly industrial) and the City of Richmond (mostly
undeveloped) were declared defective and invalid, with the ruling suspended
for 18 months to allow transfer back to the Cowichan Tribes (except a >>>>> 12-acre
airport fuel depot). All lands belonging to the Vancouver Fraser Port >>>>> Authority were ceded back to the tribe.
Wow. The artificial land too that the Indians had the technology to
build?
Glad you know that much of the southern part of the Vancouver Port
Authority (especially the spit containing the BC Ferries connection to >>> Vancouver Island) is dredged land.
At the rate they're going BC tribes are next going to lay claim to
Point Roberts (which is a 2 sq mile area connected to BC and NOT
connected to Washington State but by virtue of being S of the 49th
parallel is US territory) - and certain tribes both on Vancouver
Island and Washington State are laying claims to parts of Metro
Vancouver. Plus probably the man made spit in Tsawwassen that contains >>> the BC Ferries terminal to Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island.
So tug the forelock and agree in advance that any native land claim is >>> legitimate and not the slightest exaggerated....(my home is in such a
region though pre-contact data shows local native people never
inhabited more than a strip of land about 1/2 miles from the sea and
I'm considerably north of that - with the only evidence they ever went >>> this far from the sea was either for berry picking or bear hunting -
never habitation)
Are you in an area that is only claimed by one tribe? I understand there
are whole areas which two or more tribes each claim as their territory
which would have to complicate things even further.
I can't IMAGINE how much stress this puts on all home-owners in BC as
they wonder if they're about to be evicted
Evicted? That's seriously an option? All this boogedy-boogedy shit from a bunch of grifting Indians could cost you your home?
The BC government made a statement that was supposed to sound like no
one's home is in jeopardy but to my ears, there was some serious hedging
going on. I do NOT trust the current government, which is very
socialist, so I may just be biased. I'd be very curious to see Horny
Goat's reaction to the government's official line. Does he trust them
not to evict people from their homes?
When are you people going to stand up and say fuck no? Violently if necessary.
or taxed to the skies because
of a court decision that rules that their homes are on land that wasn't
legitimately acquired.... For most people, their homes are their biggest
single asset and the prospect of losing them has got to be horrible.
Not horrible. Absolutely unacceptable. Which point needs to be asserted in the
strongest of terms. There are plenty of gun stores just south of a mostly-undefended border with which you all can arm yourselves and make that point.
I'm trying to remember any incident in Canadian history where we stood
up in LARGE numbers and violently contested anything, let alone won.
There were some revolts or actions that involved small numbers of
people, like the Riel Rebellion in the 19th century or the FLQ Crisis in
1970 but the number of people willing to fight violently was small.
During COVID, there were certainly people who objected strongly to the lockdowns but precious few who would take up arms. We're too damned
docile as a people.
We didn't forge our country in war the way you did. We didn't have to
fight for our independence. In fact, I once heard a claim that we didn't
even SEEK independence from Britain: the British Foreign Office
basically found it expensive to do all it was doing when we were still colonies and strong-armed us into cobbling together the sovereign nation
of Canada. Of course that's not the official line in our history books
but no one seems to look too closely at the events so I truly don't know.
I wonder if actual having the government take away homes would be enough
to motivate armed resistance on a large scale? I really don't know.
You have no idea how sad it makes me to say that. I have no desire
whatever to go to war with anyone but it really disturbs me that I'm not
sure if, as a people, we have any red lines that the government
absolutely MUST NOT CROSS. I'd really like to be able to say that we
might tolerate X or Y but we absolutely will NOT accept Z but I don't if
there is a Z or what Z is.
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Rhino
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