Aboriginal title is a controversial issue in British Columbia. First Nations argue that Crown land should be placed under Aboriginal title, and that it should be given to the First Nations. The BC government is fighting back, but is it really fighting back?
00:00:00.000Without a doubt, one of the biggest stories in British Columbia politics right now is these aboriginal title court cases where ban councils around the province are taking cities to court to argue that the crown land and effectively the fee simple land is aboriginal land and should be placed under aboriginal title.
00:00:21.820And because this is such a woke province, you have the government seemingly barely trying to fight back. They are not arguing properly in court. They have not even informed the people whose land is going to be affected that they may actually not even own the land under their own feet because a random ban council with oral testimony only is going to declare that it's actually their land because, frankly, it's because the land's worth a lot of money.
00:00:50.420If it wasn't worth a lot of money, they wouldn't be suing Richmond. They wouldn't be suing Kamloops. They wouldn't be taking Port Coquitlam to court. They would just leave it alone. They are doing this effectively for money. It's not the average First Nations person doing it. It's First Nations ban councils doing it because this is the big financial grift for those groups.
00:01:09.880It's the consultants and the lawyers encouraging them to sue major cities because there can be big payouts if you can get a court, a woke enough court, and that's not hard to find in British Columbia, to agree that this could have been a fishing village 150 years ago.
00:01:25.860So, in effect, you basically own half the city. It's absolutely wild we see all this stuff going on, but that's what makes this next thing I'm going to show you so funny.
00:01:36.060So, I work for the party 1BC in the BC legislature, and yesterday our leader, Dallas Brody, went and confronted all those woke MLAs and said,
00:01:46.840well, if you guys keep doing land acknowledgments and saying we're on unceded land and that this is all stolen land,
00:01:53.560why don't you guys get up and start signing away your land to the First Nations preemptively?
00:02:00.140Because apparently it's only for the average British Columbian to suffer the consequences of your own woke bad policy.
00:02:07.900Why don't you bite the bullet and just give your house's title away to an Aboriginal band right now?
00:02:15.08085 out of 93 members in this house own residential properties.
00:02:20.840This is according to public disclosures.
00:02:23.560I have the list, and I'm going to be publishing it later today.
00:02:28.280The government and official opposition both believe that the lands of BC were stolen,
00:02:32.520and that's why they voted down our bill to get rid of land acknowledgments.
00:02:37.320If they want to give back stolen lands, today is their chance.
00:02:40.900My question, Mr. Speaker, is which member will be the change that they want to see in this world
00:02:45.880by being the first to transfer the title of their own property over to a local Indigenous tribe?
00:02:53.560Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.
00:03:00.520Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.
00:03:02.520Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.
00:03:04.520Well, thank you for the acknowledgement and honour of the speaker.
00:03:06.520It seems that the member opposite is in a spirit of generosity.
00:03:12.280I understand she herself has a large home in the down – no, not the downtown east side.
00:05:10.660That is their interpretation of the ruling, that because all of the crown land was handed over to them, or their Aboriginal title supersedes it, and because the crown was the one who gave away the fee-simple land, which is private property, that means that technically that private property was given away illegitimately.
00:05:28.940And now you need the Cowichan tribes veto, like you need their like go-ahead, or they can veto if you actually try and sell.
00:05:36.840That's how ridiculous the current situation is.
00:05:39.320So he can keep saying, we've been very clear, private property is protected.
00:05:45.520They are taking private landowners to court.
00:05:48.400There's a reason why they've had to notify landowners in places like Richmond and Kamloops that you may not own your own home.
00:05:55.660They've had to do the same thing in Port Coquitlam.
00:05:57.440They have to notify them because, in fact, you don't really own your own land.
00:06:01.860Like, I need to bring up this post I saw yesterday from a far-left lawyer because, if anything, this person is going to give you the clear interpretation of what's really going on here because they agree with this kind of stuff.
00:06:15.860We have Kayla Lee here saying, in response to all this, what Dallas Brody was doing,
00:07:18.060No, but 150 years ago they may have thought of potentially one day making a fishing village here and now you share your land title with them even though they have nothing to do with the person who may have thought that 150 years ago.
00:07:31.480Like, these people are effectively ethnic supremacists, and if even somebody with the same blood as them walked across a landscape, that means it is theirs now and they can sue you to get your private property title from you.
00:07:47.540And they're only doing this because, frankly, there's a lot of money there.
00:07:50.860I, on the weekend, actually went down to the Cowichan Tribe's office on Vancouver Island.
00:08:14.580There's no group of people who's more, especially more caring of the land than others.
00:08:19.980There's an illegal dump site, two, three illegal dump sites, I believe, on the Cowichan land that they have not been taken care of.
00:08:27.360They have a budget of tens of millions of dollars every single year.
00:08:30.600And they couldn't figure out how to prevent people from dumping 300,000 cubic meters of garbage next to a river, dumping infected soil next to a river.
00:10:33.220The Ministry of Forests spent $134,000 working with UBC to develop wood leather.
00:10:42.080Now, wood leather is a synthetic leather alternative made from wood fibers.
00:10:48.180The Ministry of Sport then spent $55,000 turning this wood leather into three soccer balls.
00:10:58.540So in total, $190,000 went into making these three soccer balls.
00:11:06.620Now, Premier David Evie and Agriculture Minister Lana Poppin then hopped on an airplane, flew to Japan, where they posed in a photo op with these $63,000 soccer balls.
00:11:23.700Every dollar that David Evie wastes on these expensive $63,000 soccer balls is money that's not going towards poor services like health care, education, or roads.
00:11:36.000I can agree with the CTF on this one, definitely.
00:11:40.920It's absolutely pathetic to be the province or to be the government who, in response to Brody saying,
00:11:46.560we're trying to make health care and crime better.
00:11:49.180And then you're blowing what could have basically hired a few more cops on literal complete nothingness.
00:11:54.820Just garbage that you do not need at all.
00:11:58.100I just want to show you guys now what these things actually looked like that they ended up blowing $133,000 on, or a little bit, $190,000, including the development fees.
00:12:10.820This is not even like an actual full-size soccer ball.