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"Since the passage of FNFMA, 335 First Nations have chosen optional path of participation in the FNFMA — more than half of all Indian Act First Nations...The FNFMA framework & institutions have enabled First Nations to collectively secure" 1/12
"an intern'l, investment-grade credit rating & access $2 billion in private capital through FNFA, creating over 14,000 new jobs in the process. This platform has further empowered First Nations gov't's 2 generate over $1 billion in tax revenues, empowered by FNTC." 2/12
"Stronger gov't's, flourishing economies & secure revenues have supported capacity of First Nations 4 self-determination & lead 2 improved socio-economic outcomes, including community services & infrastructure." 3/12
Let's recall in 1995, based on 1969 White Paper, PM Jean Chretien imposed an "Inherent Right" 2 self-gov't policy that recognized "Inherent Right" in abstract not 2 any group & w/ pre-conditions 2 negotiations that convert legal status of FN's into ethnic municipalities. 4/12
To support his 1969 White Paper "self-gov't" objectives PM Chretien tried to pass an Indian Act Amendment package (Bill C-79) in line w/ "Inherent Right Policy" to convert Band Councils into legal [white] persons (corporations) in Canadian law. the Chiefs killed the bill. 5/12
From 2000-2003 PM Chretien tried to revive Bill C-79 again with First Nations Governance Act (Bill C-7), but with help of NDP & BQ the Chief's stalled the Bill until Chretien left politics & it died! 6/12
But to support his 1969 White Paper model of municipal self-gov't, PM Chretien got Parliament to pass First Nations Land Management Act & First Nations Fiscal Management Act to assimilate First Nations into Canada's property & tax systems as the White Paper intended! 7/12
Harper killed the First Nations Statistics Institute, but supported the 3 Fiscal Institutions: First Nations Financial Management Board, First Nations Finance Authority (Loan Fund & Bonds), First Nations Tax Commission. 8/12
The Financial Management Act Institutions were set up by PM Chretien to help support municipal self-gov't. That's why the Indian Act Bands and Reserves are the basis for the "Roadmap" from "poverty to prosperity" of the FMA Institutions. 9/12
The FMA Institutions "Roadmap" says their plan is the way to implement section 35 & UNDRIP & Member Bands have borrowed & raised money through bonds & taxation, but it's based on Crown delegated Indian Act By-Laws or alternatively self-gov't municipal "jurisdiction". 10/12
RCAP recognized 60-80 Indigenous Nations in what's now known as Canada & recommended Nationhood 4 self-determination NOT Band self-gov't! Indigenous Nations are best suited 2 take on federal provincial & territorial gov't's NOT Bands-Organizing needs 2 start from ground up! 11/12
In June 2023, feds are issuing an action-plan to implement Canada's domestic version of UNDRIP (Bill C-15) what many of us call CANDRIP! That action-plan will be based on the status quo (land codes, taxation, land claims & municipal self-gov't)! 12/12 #WiseUp #RiseUp #Sovereignty

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Jan 10
“At its core, the concept of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent is about meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples on issues of concern to them with a goal of achieving consensus”

SOURCE: November 16, 2016, PowerPoint, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 1/4 ImageImageImageImage
“At its core, the concept of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent is about meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples on issues of concern to them with a goal of achieving consensus”

SOURCE: November 16, 2016, PowerPoint, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 2/4 ImageImageImageImage
“At its core, the concept of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent is about meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples on issues of concern to them with a goal of achieving consensus”

SOURCE: November 16, 2016, PowerPoint, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 3/4 ImageImageImage
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Jan 1
"What we are doing today is also a next step toward ending the Indian Act, but the pace of transition will also require the leadership of Indigenous communities themselves."
- PMJT, August 28, 2017 1/3 pm.gc.ca/en/news/backgr…
Make no mistake, w/ Trudeau gov't poised 2 issue an action-plan (process) in June 2023, 2 implement CANDRIP Bill C-15 it will have succeeded in replacing UNDRIP w/ its 2018 "Recognition & Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework"...2/3
which was rejected by First Nations across Canada, but remains the agenda at the Pan-Indigenous (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) federal "Recognition and Self-Determination Tables" 3/3 cbc.ca/news/indigenou…
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Dec 30, 2022
COUNTERING THE TRUDEAU PLAN!

FROM THE OLD COLONIAL DIVIDE & RULE PLAYBOOK OF "TRADITIONALISTS" VS. "PROGRESSIVES" BANDS TO THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS VS. FIRST NATIONS!

RESERVES VS. ANCESTRAL TERRITORIES! 1/5 ImageImageImageImage
COUNTERING THE TRUDEAU PLAN!

FROM THE OLD COLONIAL DIVIDE & RULE PLAYBOOK OF "TRADITIONALISTS" VS. "PROGRESSIVES" BANDS TO THE 4TH LEVEL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS VS. FIRST NATIONS!

RESERVES VS. ANCESTRAL TERRITORIES! 2/5 ImageImageImageImage
COUNTERING THE TRUDEAU PLAN!

FROM THE OLD COLONIAL DIVIDE & RULE PLAYBOOK OF "TRADITIONALISTS" VS. "PROGRESSIVES" BANDS TO THE 4TH LEVEL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS VS. FIRST NATIONS!

RESERVES VS. ANCESTRAL TERRITORIES! 3/5 ImageImageImageImage
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Dec 29, 2022
"Legal personhood is an aspect of most [self-government agreements and] modern treaties (i.e. comprehensive land claims agreements that begin with the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement signed in 1975)" 1/14
"and a permanent feature of all agreements after the Yukon Umbrella Agreement of 1993: it is conferred in the treaty by stating that the First Nation (1) is a legal person, and (2) is a public body for the purposes of paragraph 149(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act" 2/14
"But this conferral of personhood does not alter the application of paragraphs 149(1)(c) and (d.5) or subsection 149(11) with respect to First Nation owned and controlled corporations." 3/14
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Dec 27, 2022
Algonquin GC Jean Maurice Matchewan 2 Quebec National Assembly Committee in 1992:

"(1) It's a fallacy 2 suggest that, in terms of aboriginal rights, modern Quebec is the successor 2 New France. Quebec is a successor 2 British colonies known as Quebec (1763-1774; 1774-1791)" 1/8
"Lower Canada 1791-1841 & Canada (East] 1841-1867 owing their existence 2 British colonial law-all of these jurisdictions have been subject 2 common law aboriginal title/doctrine of aboriginal rights-which has passed into Canadian common law-applies equally 2 modern Quebec" 2/8
"( 2) In the same way, Quebec' s present boundaries are the creation, not of French colonial law, but of various Imperial and Canadian enactments. These include the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Imperial Order in Council of 1791" 3/8
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Dec 25, 2022
"In August 1995, the federal government formally announced its new policy. Key principles of the policy are:"

"the inherent right is an existing Aboriginal right under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982." 1/4 Image
"self-government will be exercised within the existing Canadian constitution."

"the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms will apply to Aboriginal governments."

"federal funding for self-government will be achieved through the reallocation of existing resources." 2/4
"where all parties agree, rights in self-government agreements may be protected in new treaties under section 35 of the Constitution, as additions to existing treaties, or as part of comprehensive land claims agreements." 3/4
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