A Manitoba Chief recently asked me at a meeting "where's your red cape"? I was confused at first then I got it. It was a shot at my strong advocacy for First Nations rights. I've heard other Chiefs say I'm too critical of government "you can't bite the hand that feeds you"! 1/9 I've worked as an advisor & policy analyst for Indian Act Chiefs & Councils and establishment Chiefs' orgs-like AFN-for decades now. I started working at NIB in 1981, just as Canada's new constitution was being negotiated & sent to England for ratification & signing by QEII. 2/9

CANDRIP (Bill C-15) Nat'l Action-Plan includes Measure #23 for Trudeau gov't to unilaterally issue a "public statement" to "withdraw the Comprehensive Land Claims & Inherent Right Policies...public statement will include the extinguishment of rights is not a policy objective" 1/8 In 2019, Trudeau & Horgan gov't's got their partner the BC First Nations Summit to jointly issue "Recognition and Reconciliation of Rights Policy for treaty negotiations in British Columbia" renewing the BCTC process w/ its flaws. 2/8 rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1567636002…

By June 21, 2023 Trudeau gov't will give Parliament it's CANDRIP (Bill C-15) Nat'l Action-Plan 2 continue its 4 Termination Policies (self-gov't, comprehensive claims, specific claims & additions-to-reserve (until reserve is eliminated) & assimilation land & tax legislation! 1/5 Authentic self-determination (not feds municipal self-gov't policy) is antidote to colonialism--because of SCC burden of proof in Canada, this requires research, mapping & planning! 2/5

"More broadly, CIRNAC will work towards the ongoing implementation of the UNDRIP Act, which supports Indigenous Peoples in achieving self-determination, resulting in improved socio-economic conditions and well-being." 1/5 "In particular, CIRNAC will work to advance the following articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:" 2/5

"Reserve system in Canada, as it has evolved in the period since Confederation, has largely been a creature of federal gov't policy & legislation." 1/8 "The underlying federal presumption in immediate wake of Confederation was that Reserve system would disappear concurrently with “advancement” of Indian people & their eventual enfranchisement & assimilation." 2/8

CHECK THE LIST!
"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

“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 “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

"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

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 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

"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

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

"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 "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

In order to understand current Trudeau Liberal gov’t’s pan-Indigenous “reconciliation” policy some context is required. When it formed a majority gov’t in 2015, the Indian Act had been in place 139 yrs. Imposing forced poverty & dependency on 0.2% of Canada’s land mass. 1/9 PMJT was elected into office in part on an Indigenous Platform that read as progressive & sold publicly by an Indigenous woman star candidate who was appointed 1st Indigenous woman Minister of Justice & Attorney-General. 2/9

Freeland's Fall Economic Statement 2022 shows feds doubling down on their critical minerals strategy & bogus federal impact assessment regime for major projects w/ feds nat'l benefits-sharing framework for cooperative FNMI! 1/4 canada.ca/en/department-… Since feds replaced UNDRIP w/ CANDRIP Bill C-15) Indigenous Policy Framework 4 Project Reviews & Regulatory Decisions only allows 4 "meaningful participation" in impact assessment regime not Free, Prior, Informed, Consent. But grants are given out 4 participating in process! 2/4

“The federal government ordered earlier this month that 10 First Nations be given new powers to levy property taxes on their territory.” 1/5 “The 10 nations had requested those powers, which are provided to First Nations that want them via the First Nations Fiscal Management Act.” 2/5

I have spent many years of my life studying the federal government of Canada and its Indian Policy, which changed to Aboriginal Policy and is now called Indigenous Policy. 1/18 My real experience started in 1981 when I moved to Ottawa & worked as a summer student at the National Indian Brotherhood in Parliamentary Liaison to learn how Parliament operates. While at NIB Canada's new constitution was being negotiated. 2/18

"Building strong Indigenous nations requires strong Indigenous governments & Indigenous-led institutions. This is why Budget 2022 affirms federal gov't’s commitment 2 make legislative changes that will help move beyond colonial systems 2 advance Indigenous self-determination" 1/4 "Budget 2022 announces gov't’s intention 2 replace First Nations Land Management Act—which empowers First Nations 2 opt out of Indian Act provisions related 2 land management & replace them with their own laws—with the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act." 2/4

Indian Act was written 146 years ago 2 give Min. of Indian Affairs & staff control over virtually all community matters. How we governed ourselves. Who was entitled 2 b a member of our community. How we used & possessed our lands & resources. 1/8 Where we went to school and what we were
taught. What businesses we could & couldn’t establish & who we could do business with & where we could do business. 2/8

HOW IT WORKS:TRUDEAU GOVERNENT’S MANIPULATION OF UNDRIP (BILL C-15) TO RE-COLONIZE FIRST NATIONS 1/5 HOW IT WORKS:TRUDEAU GOVERNENT’S MANIPULATION OF UNDRIP (BILL C-15) TO RE-COLONIZE FIRST NATIONS 2/5

Early in 21st Century (2000-2003) the Chretien gov't unsuccessfully tried to pass the "FIRST NATIONS GOVERNANCE ACT", but his Minister of Indian Affairs set up a Joint Advisory Committee, to explore questions like: 1/11 "Should the Indian Act be amended so as to clearly provide that bands have the “capacity, rights, powers, and privileges of a natural person”?" 2/11

How PMJT's Plan to Terminate Indigenous Nations works: 1) Appropriate terminology; 2) Take a pan-Indigenous approach; 3) Impose 10 Principles to convert original sovereign/Treaty relationship w/ Crown to a "new" relationship; 4) Create secret Cabinet Group to review law & policy; 5) Change structure of federal Gov't (ISC & CIRNA) 2 process FN communities from current legal & political status into "new" relationship as 4th level "Indigenous Gov't's"; 6) Replace old self-gov't & comprehensive land claims policies w/ a new "rights-based" negotiations policy;