00:05:26.280And here's a number of stories that have come out.
00:05:28.040this one right here, just from a couple of days ago, that will make you mad. How such a small
00:05:33.660group of people, and I'm talking small group of people in this story, it can have such a
00:05:38.600detrimental effect on the economy of Alberta and of Canada as well, and an effect on your life.
00:05:45.180Jamie Sarkinak, yet another major project derailed over Indigenous spat. Let me read a bit of this
00:05:50.540for you. This will blow you away. Earlier this month, the BC court decided to cancel the official
00:05:56.320go ahead to construct a gold mine in the north of the province because a few dozen Indigenous
00:06:01.540people weren't, in its view, adequately consulted. It didn't matter that the project Seabridge
00:06:08.800Gold Kerr Sulphuretz Mitchell KSM Mine, that's a mouthful, had already undergone 15 years of
00:06:17.060planning and consultations. It didn't matter that $1.2 billion had already been spent on building
00:06:24.280early components of the mine, like camps, roads, and fish habitat, didn't matter that it had the
00:06:30.400support of two major indigenous groups whose members would reap jobs, contracts, training,
00:06:35.420and development support through benefit agreements with the company. It didn't matter that the mine
00:06:40.400had been put in the province's fast-track list or that it was expected to bring billions of dollars
00:06:46.240and much-needed revenue. What actually mattered, now here's the real meat and potatoes, folks,
00:06:50.900What actually mattered to B.C. Supreme Court Justice Emily Burke was the right of a tiny group calling itself a First Nation to provide even more input on the mine than it already had.
00:07:03.620the Set-Sot-Ski-Kim-The-Bop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop-A-Wop-Bam-Boo tribe, comprised of only 58 known members,
00:07:15.580according to the court, had projected an Aboriginal title claim onto the area. The group is not
00:07:21.680recognized in federal law and thus not technically a real First Nation. Nevertheless, it argued that
00:07:28.320the province hadn't adequately evaluated its claim, tainting any further approvals of the mine.
00:07:35.620Do you really think we're going to get a pipeline from Alberta out to the British Columbia coast
00:07:40.580when people like this are going to stand in the way? Now, here's another thing. We've got
00:07:48.080Indigenous groups in BC stopping projects and getting in the way. Here's an article right here.
00:07:53.700This was in April, BC Judge Grant's US-based indigenous group, a role in legal fight over
00:08:00.080Kootenai mine. And folks, that's not the only one. This one here, Alaskan tribes sue BC government
00:08:07.400over mines in the far Northwest. So not only are Canadian indigenous groups getting in the way of
00:08:12.960projects, American ones are as well. Here's what I see happening. Danielle Smith announces
00:08:19.380that there's going to be a pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast and everyone rejoices
00:08:26.120and it'll likely be announced just before the referendum in October.
00:08:31.060And here's what's going to happen. They'll never get a shovel in the ground or if they ever do,
00:08:36.900there will be somebody and it will be an Indigenous person standing in front of that
00:08:41.160pipeline blocking it and it will never go through because there wouldn't be a single RCMP officer,
00:08:48.280police officer, or military officer would ever remove an indigenous person from any land in
00:08:55.560this country. That's why this will never happen. There's this article here as well. Let me get to
00:08:59.960this. The BC law that can stop Carney's nation building projects. Let me bring myself on screen.
00:09:07.240I mean, this is from April. Okay. Oh, so here we go. In British Columbia, the NDP government led
00:09:13.520by Premier David Eby is paralyzed by its own policies. Unable to reverse its decision to
00:09:19.640embed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, UNDRIP,
00:09:24.760interprovincial law, the province has effectively handed First Nations a veto over development on
00:09:30.220any claimed territory. Quote, you have a First Nations advocacy organization co-governing a
00:09:37.260province, unquote, says retired aboriginal law expert Jeffrey Moyes. We saw it pretty clearly
00:09:43.900yesterday when the First Nations Leadership Council told Eby what was going to happen.
00:09:48.500They told him he couldn't legislate, couldn't change legislation without their consent.
00:09:55.520So we go back to Mark Carney once again. Who does he give a veto to? And we need the
00:10:00.680participation of Indigenous peoples. I think eventually Premier David Eby of British Columbia
00:10:05.640We'll get on board with a pipeline if one is announced, but there's a lot of indigenous groups between the Alberta border and the B.C. coast.
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00:10:22.140To make very clear that there's absolutely no support for pipelines to the northwest coast or oil tankers in the waters around Haida Gwaii.