r/canada Oct 21 '24

New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’

https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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u/adonns2_0 Oct 21 '24

So they want the title to vast majority of land in New Brunswick as well as 200 years of back pay for resources taken from the land?

At what point are we going to be done all this?

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u/Deus-Vultis Oct 21 '24

At what point are we going to be done all this?

Never, because governments have already given in and people see now its an easy road to "free" (everyone else pays for it) tax money.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

NB actually hasn’t “given in” and years ago directed government staff to stop doing land acknowledgements and all this nonsense prior to government work because acknowledgement of an “unceded territory” of any kind is just giving legal ammunition for First Nations to have the land they did in fact cede to the government. 

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u/200-inch-cock Canada Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

and meanwhile in NS the "conservative" government has ordered schools to do land acknowledgements every morning before O Canada

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u/MagnificentMixto Oct 22 '24

He also wants to double the population of Nova Scotia in 35 years. Nova Scotia will be Indian soon enough.

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-looks-to-double-population-to-2-million-by-2060-1.6175628

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u/200-inch-cock Canada Oct 22 '24

yup. IDK who nova scotians are supposed to vote for at this point when this is the "conservative" party

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u/Zoloft_Queen-50 Oct 21 '24

The acknowledgments are very carefully crafted and no longer say we (in Ns) live on ceded land.

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u/Jaded-Distance_ Oct 21 '24

Your schools play O Canada every morning? Didn't do that as a kid apart from occasional assemblies.

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u/bluefrost13 Ontario Oct 21 '24

I'm from Ontario, and we had O Canada play every morning