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: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples may not block this particular resource project in British Columbia, but it would certainly block many proposed future ones. I believe UNDRIP in effect creates a third order of sovereign government in Canada: First Nations.
The existing “duty to consult and accommodate” law has already killed the Mackenzie Valley and Energy East pipelines, and has forced Canadian taxpayers to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline. It has resulted in lost investment and jobs and flight of capital from Canada. A government that legally adopts UNDRIP would be committing economic suicide.The Globe’s editorial concludes that rewriting the “well-developed Indigenous legal framework” in Canada is not desirable.
I see it as the remainder of a colonial system, a patchwork of attempts to correct missteps that have exposed our country to allegations of genocide. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples would provide Canada with a road map to effect a meaningful form of reconciliation and decolonization. It would be a means to work together.
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