BC Premier Eby says changing Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is 'non-negotiable' and will be pushed into law (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

While I am sympathetic to the government's and non-Cowichan tribes' issue, amending the DRIPA legislation to make it weaker and easier to weasel around isn't the way to do it, if the information in the letter is a true reflection of the proposed amendments.

Edit: Sounds like Eby's taking a different path (something along the lines of waiting for the Supreme Court case to resolve before fully implementing DRIPA) than the one proposed in the letter. I'll have to evaluate Indigenous leader and member reactions to that.

[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 11 points 19 hours ago

The BC NDP is betraying indigenous people.

[+] Teppa@lemmy.world -7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

What have you done for reconciliation, did you give up the rights to your home?

I have a friend who is indigenous who is renting if you haven't yet.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

After you posted that blog earlier whining about the share of white people in Canada being less than it was in the 70's I find that very difficult to believe.

[+] Teppa@lemmy.world -10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Whining? It was a bunch of charts.

Regardless of ad hominem, what have you done?

Eby knows he's being voted out the next election if he doesn't roll this back in some way, because average people who spend a million dollars on their home don't like losing the rights to it. They likely worked decades to acquire it, while people like you want to tell them how entitled they are for expecting to own it.

Eby is also the best MP in Canada, and rezoned housing to actually help the poor, who now can't afford a home due to nearly a century of regressive zoning laws coupled with mass immigration into an existing shortage.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Sure, one of those charts noting that white people make up a smaller percentage of Canada than they did in the 70's and suggesting that was a sign of Canada's decline. What could that possibly mean?

[-] Teppa@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I edited a lot as you replied so quick, but I would say demographic collapse due to an erosion in living standards. Nobody can afford kids, as Eby is trying to fix.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

Complaining that there are more brown people than there used to be is a really weird angle of attack to show that.

[-] Teppa@lemmy.world -4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The decline is the fact we are being displaced due to the cost of living. Most people I think would agree it would be nice if we were a country mostly made up of native born citizens, in a country where citizens could lead normal lives and affrod to have children.

But you're here calling the NDP racists against indigenous, so I don't know why I'm arguing.