If treaty payments in the neighborhood of $126 billion don’t sink the Canadian economy, I don’t know what would. While it’s true that the annual per person treaty payments are very low, why wouldn’t a court also take into account the mushrooming budget for the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs which made such payments redundant over many decades?
In a unanimous ruling, the panel of nine judges declared both Canada and Ontario had “dishonourably breached” their obligations under the Robinson Treaties signed with the Anishinaabe of Lake Huron and Lake Superior in 1850.
Harley Schacter, a lawyer for Red Rock First Nation and Whitesand First Nation which started the group’s fight back in 2001, told reporters on Friday he believes his clients are owed “a couple of billion to as much as $126 billion.”
“It’s a victory for everybody.”
Everybody, that is, with the exception of taxpayers.
Hopefully all the other treaty signers gain such decisions too.
Hopefully the band’s lawyer, Harley Schacter, gains a fair percentage of that, same as Merchant Law Group did in previous decisions… lol..
If “anyone” can simply switch from one sex to another, and the US Democratic Party candidate can be “black” (CTV was saying this just days ago) … then everyone else can choose their race as well, it’s just another societal construct.
and note, I DO NOT want a big screen Tv
Natives owe us billions in taxes.
Nothing in the treaties says they don’t have to pay taxes.
Class action lawsuits against Injuns are required as reparations for introducing tobacco addictions to the rest of the world…
Seize the sacred casino grounds and take over the bingo traditions!
hate to rain on the popular parade, but l recollect in friggin GRADE SCHOOL wondering how the fcuk does the gubbamint get away with $4 reparations every YEAR???
was some gubbamint big shot setting that up and pocketing the difference?? HMM??
its a LEGAL contract folks !!!! that the crown BREACHED for 150 years.
so, the decision l totally agree with, the amount, not so much.
Well no, actually. It wasn’t a legal contract that was breached. No such terms exist in it. And seriously, “Nobel prize economist” has the value of a pitcher of warm spit.
and regarding the woe begotten taxpayer?
how much did THEY gain in benefit from all those dollars directed at them and away from natives for . . . . . . . 150 years? heyo ‘tp’ youre just giving some BACK that the anishnaby lost out on.
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oh look. how did he do that??
feel free to copy the blank spaces. they are DIFFERENT than the ‘space bar’ on yer keyboard folks, THAT one is 32 in the ascii code. THIS one is #255 ie all bits on (remember all zeros bits is also a valid code thus 256 of 8 bit combinations or 2^E8)
So the Supreme Court Of Canada believes that people yet to be born should be liable for a windfall paid today for their interpretation of a deal made before anyone alive was born that theoretically harmed people no longer alive. It’s unfortunate and a conflict of interest that the grievance industry includes the SCOC and they get to rule on all issues involved. This will continue until a future government decides to eliminate the apartheid (currently in the process of being inverted) of the Indian Act and an endless grievance industry. Too bad equality before the law is such an antiquated idea.
After every broadcast and publication has formally acknowledged squatting on native treaty land isn’t the next logical step: “Hey Settlers GTFO my land, like, RIGHT NOW”.