Thread by @sunnshiiny

Here is some propaganda from the O&G industry.

Showcasing indigenous people that support the pipeline.

Driving a wedge within indigenous communities. Pitting poverty relief against traditional culture.

This is colonialism 101. How to divide a community.

https://twitter.com/CanadaAction/status/1226597324664836103

This is the result of industry playing poverty relief temptation. Wet’suwet’en is not a wealthy community. The industry went through the back door (band council) and complicit elders to arrange for the approval.

They have permanently divided the community by throwing money at a poor community where some thought it better to benefit than to fight and lose.

Then the provincial courts rushed an injunction and rushed to enforce the injunction and bypassed the SCC decision regarding unceded indigenous land.

Ignoring SCC precedent.

This is industry and corrupt members of govt eliminating indigenous rights in plain view of the nation, with impunity.

It’s shameful to witness and politically impossible to intervene openly. Any govt intervening would be seen as anti industry.

But it’s a clear indication how biased some justices are. Ignoring a SCC decision is troubling and needs to be addressed. The fed govt may not be able to intervene in Wet’suwet’en, but they can ask for a review of this judge’s rulings.

SNC scandal was created partially to detract from this situation and block any federal action.

This is industry relegating law and order.

Instead of law and order regulating industry.

It means there are some entrenched systemic problems in the Canadian judicial system and possibly a compromised provincial police enforcement.

It’s also related to China and FIPA. Chinese corporations are heavily invested in the pipeline and the LNG it will transport. Is it China’s heavy hand and $ behind the injunction rush?

China has repeatedly stated indigenous treaties and indigenous rights are an impediment to their business interests and profits.

Stephen Harper did make efforts to remove indigenous land rights. Partially to appease Chinese investors.

His modern treaties were specifically meant to cede all land and pave a clear path for industry to profit unimpeded by First Nations or land claims.

But that’s not what Trudeau’s modern treaties do. Indigenous Land is protected and can never be ceded. Access can be negotiated, but on the terms of the FN itself & based on their laws and traditions.

However, some FN with a serious secession agenda are using Wet’suwet’en to do damage to LPC. They have effectively derailed reconciliation for all indigenous peoples. Métis and non-status Indigenous are excluded, intentionally.

NDP and Greens indigenous policies reflect approval for this initiative. They promise to limit UNDRIP to FN in exchange for voter support.

NDP and GPC say they support indigenous reconciliation, but they are as bad as CPC who wants to eliminate all indigenous people’s rights.

This is a complicated situation with many moving parts. Colonization has impacted indigenous people in several ways. One is the induced poverty endemic to many FN reserves is used as a tool to coerce compliance.

Divide and conquer is employed. If indigenous communities are fighting, they have less focus to fight the pipelines.

Another tactic is attempting to bypass and eliminate indigenous rights.

BC has no treaties except for the modern ones Harper signed allowing for private property and sale of indigenous land to non indigenous entities.

Many resource industry leaders want to eliminate Indigenous rights.

If you want to know why indigenous communities are angry, resentful and some of them want to separate from Canada altogether, this is why.

Negotiations in bad faith, trickery, bribery, coercion and economic extortion.

This is what FN have been dealing with for generations.

On the surface it all seems legitimate. But look closer. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled indigenous peoples have claim to their traditional lands. Especially those who never signed a treaty.

Industry and corrupted individuals within govt are bypassing that SCC ruling to remove Wet’suwet’en protesters from their never ceded land to install a pipeline.

The rest of Canada is silent. This is why indigenous people do not trust mainstream Canada. Witness to corrupt dealings and barely a mention in MSM. Industry shills amplifying propaganda. Pitting communities against each other to divide them.

Reconciliation is a long ways away if Canadian public continues to ignore these incidents.

Are Canadians fine knowing corporations influence law and order from behind the scenes and attack indigenous rights by rushing through court injunctions?

Sure looks like it from an indigenous perspective. That’s how division and resentment is created, fostered and perpetuated in Canada.

Canada allows for the abuse of indigenous people in plain site, and barely a peep is heard.