Juno News - Is #ShutDownCanada over？

00:00:00.000 is everything over now when it comes to the hashtag shutdown Canada activism that we saw

00:00:10.800 across this country I mean the rail blockades that we saw they are over the intersections

00:00:15.600 being shut down by eco extremist activists they have come to a close extinction rebellion

00:00:20.640 individuals they tried to kidnap BC premier John Horgan just once so there you go good news it only

00:00:26.040 happened once they haven't tried to do it again is is all well well the federal government kind of

00:00:31.240 wants to tell us all is well after they met with wet sweat when hereditary chiefs on their own turf

00:00:36.800 and they came up with an agreement pardon me an arrangement that was the term an arrangement

00:00:42.240 words matter here it wasn't a deal it wasn't a contract it wasn't an agreement it was an arrangement

00:00:47.040 and what are the details of that arrangement we still do not know we are still out in the cold

00:00:52.080 and I guess it's problematic because we're told that this arrangement was about sort of acknowledging

00:00:57.320 the hereditary chiefs in more formal talks is that the direction we should be heading in are we giving

00:01:04.400 them more leverage over so much of Canada's business what's going on here and we're told that the coastal

00:01:10.120 gas link project will be resuming construction soon or has already to some degree okay great but we know

00:01:16.520 these particular hereditary chiefs are still against it we also know that the eco-extremists

00:01:21.760 are still ideologically opposed with this had nothing to do with what first nations communities

00:01:26.180 were saying this was just a prop they were using to sort of support their endeavors of justification

00:01:31.280 but hold on a second there's another factor to all of this that still is not being addressed

00:01:36.720 really interesting news story from a local news outlet in BC interior here's the headline

00:01:42.560 wet sweat when elected council wants in on pipeline and BC land talks the deal with Ottawa

00:01:48.740 leaves the councils out of the cold hereditary chiefs are told sorry what hold on a second let's

00:01:55.740 read this a bit more the elected chief and councillors of the wet sweat when first nation are asking to be

00:02:00.960 included in discussions about the closed-door talks with the federal government and provincial

00:02:05.360 governments that result in that proposed settlement with hereditary chiefs well okay I really got to think

00:02:11.200 about this again so elected chiefs and elected councillors are saying that they are not privy to

00:02:17.420 this and they are asking for their voices to be heard is this really what's going on here that we

00:02:22.760 have had these elected chiefs and councillors and we know we've established this fact for a while now

00:02:26.820 it's something like 80 percent of the people in wet sweat when are in support of this we wonder why

00:02:31.600 were this this minority of hereditary chiefs why were they allowed to bring Canada to a halt to bring this

00:02:37.060 project to a halt so that in itself is bad enough as it is but now we learn that actually the elected

00:02:43.360 representatives have full-on been shut out of this entire talk that Carolyn Bennett went there only 0.95

00:02:50.280 talked to the hereditary chiefs brokered something with them that also concerned the elected people

00:02:56.780 and they are saying what's going on we haven't been told about it and the government isn't talking to

00:03:01.420 us what on earth has happened here when the prime minister says that he'd like to strike a balance

00:03:07.660 with eco whatever and development and then you've got more and more first nations saying they want

00:03:13.440 development and yet here it is the prime minister's representative Carolyn Bennett meeting with these

00:03:19.240 people who are not elected they are like the worst of the senate and the worst of the monarchy combined

00:03:24.680 in terms of not being answerable to the people and they are the ones who are sort of rewriting the rules of the game

00:03:32.120 and the elected representatives are forced to say ah excuse me please can we actually be a part of this this

00:03:37.740 this is really wild stuff because I think we had a great opportunity here of late during this whole process

00:03:42.780 to sit down and really talk about what are the hereditary chiefs what is this whole system here

00:03:48.460 and could we perhaps wind it down could we perhaps work with first nations to uh to actually draw the

00:03:55.100 hereditary chief system to a close somehow to segue out of it because it certainly looks like something

00:04:00.360 that's not appropriate for the year 2020 in terms of how we're used to democracy and politics being done

00:04:07.140 in modern society in this part of the world but no no the federal government is not doing that at all

00:04:13.200 I mean we hear that families need stability business needs stability communities need stability and

00:04:18.200 let's be perfectly honest here the hereditary chief system does not bring stability it brings

00:04:23.440 disruption it allows one or two or three individuals off on the side a rump of voters to step forward and

00:04:29.720 say we're halting this and they get their wish that is not how we understand functioning stable governance

00:04:36.120 to proceed and yet it seems the liberal government has given them greater leverage

Juno News - March 09, 2020

Is #ShutDownCanada over？

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