Western Standard - December 15, 2022


People should actually read some treaties before discussing treaty rights

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treaty rights
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4 minutes

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854

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In this episode, Mike Van Dyke talks about the treaties and their impact on treaty rights in Canada. He also talks about some of the ways in which treaty rights have been violated, and why we need to do something about it.

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00:00:00.000 With every treaty is available on the internet in full, and the remarkably short, simple documents.
00:00:05.860 I mean, most of the text within a treaty, it's spent defining the terms and defining the boundaries of new indigenous reserves.
00:00:12.000 A large part of treaties go into detail on how indigenous signatories are also ceding all further claims to lands and rights outside of what the treaty has determined.
00:00:20.940 That section of the treaty is the most abused one in the modern times, actually.
00:00:23.740 Now, aside from that, treaties tend to call for things such as a small annual stipend for chiefs and headmen, along with the provision of some agricultural implements.
00:00:33.160 In Treaty 6, for example, the Crown's obligated to provide ammunition and guarantee hunting rights for indigenous citizens on their reserves.
00:00:40.080 This is where some legislation is indeed threatening treaty rights, as Prime Minister Trudeau's Bill C-21 could lead to the seizure of firearms that indigenous citizens use for hunting.
00:00:50.440 Treaty 1 and Treaty 2, they call for the provision of schools for the children on reserves.
00:00:55.980 So, yeah, while people don't like to talk about it, access to schools was enshrined as a right in some treaties and probably inspired some of the residential school systems.
00:01:04.320 And treaty signatories signed on wanting that education for their kids.
00:01:07.920 So, give those treaties a read. They're interesting.
00:01:09.720 Now, most of the things people reference as being treaty rights in Canada, they're actually rights and benefits conferred by the Indian Act.
00:01:16.960 And there's many things wrong with that act, but it isn't entrenched within the treaties.
00:01:21.180 And it's an act. It can be amended or even scrapped.
00:01:24.320 Treaty rights have been violated before.
00:01:26.900 It's usually a matter of land being taken or obligations for land not filled.
00:01:30.500 Our courts have been settling many of those disputes already.
00:01:33.020 When it comes to the legislation being entrenched within Alberta and Saskatchewan, where we're asserting provincial rights, there's no conflict with any treaties.
00:01:40.440 Before indulging somebody's point when they claim a treaty rights being violated somehow, just ask them which right and which treaty.
00:01:47.580 It's easy enough to check online right on the spot with your phone.
00:01:50.880 They're all out there and they're small.
00:01:53.200 Chances are no rights probably actually being violated.
00:01:55.980 With the ability to instantly fact check claims of treaty rights, we should be calling out those claims as soon as we hear them.
00:02:01.220 They've been hampering rational policy discussions for too long already, and we don't need to let that happen anymore.
00:02:07.280 Right now we've got the chiefs lined up.
00:02:10.740 It seems Rachel Notley has managed to get them together and claim they weren't consulted now in the Sovereignty Act.
00:02:16.320 Guys, we don't have an obligation to consult them, to bring in legislations.
00:02:20.400 I mean, we still want to consult people as much as possible, as we do with the rest of the electorate.
00:02:24.380 But there's no obligation.
00:02:26.520 And the only way that would come in is if people say, well, now it's the Constitution.
00:02:28.880 No, it's not.
00:02:29.680 If there was a problem with the treaty.
00:02:31.700 But there is no problem with the treaty.
00:02:33.280 So all I'm saying is, have a look, guys.
00:02:35.660 Get out there and read those treaties.
00:02:37.320 It'll add a lot more clarity to these discussions because right now people have a really poor idea of what they're about.
00:02:42.920 Here's an update on the current commodity prices around Lethbridge.
00:02:46.000 Cash barley sideways at $4.40 per metric.
00:02:48.580 Feed wheat is down $3 a ton to $4.45 per metric.
00:02:52.000 And corn is down $5 a ton to $4.52 per metric ton.
00:02:56.180 Moving to the milling wheat markets, March Minneapolis futures moved up $4.5 to $9.21.50 per bushel,
00:03:02.680 with local hard red spring bid for JanFed movement at $11.65 per bushel delivered.
00:03:08.700 Nearby canola futures are sideways to $8.65.50 per metric ton,
00:03:13.500 with deliver values for January movement at $19.40 per bushel.
00:03:17.680 Continuing to the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices remain the same
00:03:21.800 at $0.33 per pound, and yellow peas are trading at $12.75 per bushel.
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