The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada was in B.C. on Thursday and says the federal government needs to take a stand to protect private property rights.
Pierre Poilievre laid out a four-point plan that Conservatives want to see implemented.
“We need the federal government, Mark Carney, to change his mind and reverse the directive, making it clear that the federal government’s position is that fee-simple property takes priority over all of the claims,” he said.
“Two, we need to ensure that all future agreements that the government signs with First Nations clearly and explicitly lay out that fee-simple private property is protected and has seniority over all other title. Three, the prime minister must announce a full and comprehensive plan to protect private property rights across British Columbia. It’s been almost a year since this ruling.
“Four, we need to convene a parliamentary committee that will immediately begin study on how we can take political, legal and constitutional steps necessary to protect people’s homes and land.”
B.C.’s Supreme Court decided last year that the Cowichan Nation has title over a portion of southeast Richmond.
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The federal and provincial governments are appealing the B.C. Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of the Quw’utsun Nation, or Cowichan Nation, that found it had “established Aboriginal title” to more than 5.7 square kilometres of land on the Fraser River in Richmond, south of Vancouver.
The City of Richmond has also joined the appeal.
The ruling declared Crown and city titles on the land are “defective and invalid,” and the granting of private titles on it by the government unjustifiably infringed on the Cowichan title.
That has created confusion and anger among homeowners in the affected area, despite the Cowichan Tribes insisting it has no intention of stripping private title holders of their property.
“Almost all of B.C. is on unceded territory, meaning that it has never been covered by a treaty that cedes the land to new owners,” Poilievre said.
“The B.C. Treaty Commission has accepted statements of intent to negotiate with B.C. First Nations covering essentially the entire province. If those groups meet the Cowichan threshold, the implication for private property across all of British Columbia are massive. There could be, there are already active claims that go beyond Richmond that cover as much as 12,500 kilometres of land.”
The Musqueam First Nation has also signed three agreements with the federal government recognizing Aboriginal rights in Metro Vancouver.
“What the agreement does not say is that fee-simple property is protected,” Poilievre said.
“That, as a result, land boundaries are undefined, the interaction with existing private titles is unresolved. The government claim that the deal does not affect private property, but law expert Tom Isaac reveals that is not true, in his words, to say private property is not affected by the agreement is not accurate. What is accurate is that we don’t know if the agreement affects private property.”
Poilievre says the federal government needs to publish a plan within 30 days to protect property rights.
JV the racist Indian bashing the “white” man while living as one in his chicken coop condo in Vancouver. Back to the teepee and buckskin clothes riding your horse and using the bow and arrow. “Native pride” LOL
To bad that during all those military and native wars were happening way back in the 1500’s or sooner did not finish them all off and we would not have this kind of problem happening today with natives claiming they own EVERYTHING in this country and all white people have to pay taxes so we all HAVE TO financially support them all – every day. WHO I WONDER owned the lands BEFORE THE NATIVES/INDIGENOUS PEOPLE got here? Adam and Eve? How about all the animals?
Hide the cheques under their work boots
I thought in history the ‘white man’ came and made deals with the Indians way back in the 1500’s etc. Land was cheap, the deals were valid as transactions were like that back then. Fair was fair. Now – few hundred years later the money looks good eh? gotta go for another round? Seriously?
They want all the benefits of living on Indigenous land…
but melt down the second Indigenous ownership gets mentioned.
That’s the part they never want to talk about.
Living here does not make it yours.
Building here does not erase how it was taken.
Benefiting from stolen land does not turn theft into ownership.
A lot of settlers were taught to confuse access with entitlement.
And that confusion is exactly why so many people get defensive when Land Back comes up.
Because deep down, they know those are not the same thing.
Living on stolen land does not make it yours..
Yeah the so called white settlers built this country and look at it now. Slowly going down the drain and they only have their own greed to blame. You can only blame others until reality comes crashing down. Too funny
Poilievre is is right on the money these so called white settlers are the ones that built this country.
It’s time we stop celebrating the history of white settlers in this country and in North America in general. No other race has committed more crimes against humanity than white people in North America. Genocide, Slavery, Ethnic cleansing, Mass murder…. not to mention Sexual Violence and Atrocities committed by the church. There’s your white history
Racism and prejudice is all the white nationalist goofs have left and unfortunately for them it’s not enough to win a federal election. Too funny 🤣
PP is your typical white nationalist goof. Trying to gain votes through prejudice and racism. Too bad he’s going to come up short. Just like he did lastime. Too funny
I just hate Poilievre. PM Carney is a good Catholic man and thanks be to God he is our Prime Minister instead of Poilievre – a self-serving, evil man.
He is right on .
Bill Isdue – Cool story bro. You should get an award for your bulls**t fictional writing about “native chiefs” and “reserves”
Sorry I made a mistake, we are giving a billion dollars per week to native Chiefs, not per month. Either way, the money just disappears and nothing gets better on any reserves.
The left are ruining everything for everyone. Giving private property to a small group of people because of their race is just one of many destructive ideas the left has. Others include chasing away investors with high taxes and too many regulations, pushing transgender ideas onto kids, wasting enormous amounts of money on things like climate change while our Healthcare system has fallen into a third world condition. Not to mention giving a billion dollars a month to native Chiefs with no accountability or conditions attached.
N A Z I Doug thinks the Cons will take power with PP 🤣 So not only is he a racist but he’s also an idiot
Solution its indigenous land so land taxes paid go to the indigenous tribe owning the land with reasonable conditions on use and increases of taxes.
which ones? The indigenous ones or the ones that were always known to be part of treaties as land use rights, but not ownership?
Those treaties allowed land use, they were not conquered lands and were not ownership titles. Been repeated a lot and it’s hard to accept but they were rental agreements. We don’t own the land we hold deeds to. Those deeds only give ability to occupy it and use it to a limited degree.
Ultimately, the land is under its original stewardship in most cases and we just rent it.
PP found a new soap-box to stand on, try to distract from the repeat failures he has produced and maybe keep the party loyalists from seeing how unpopular the party and the leader really are?
Poilievre needs to get tougher. Just protecting private land rights is not enough. We need to protect our provincial and federal land rights. Enough of this giving away Canada. The one ruling that made sense was that although natives travelled freely throughout BC (and the rest of Canada) they do not own all the land. They can have aboriginal title to reserves, if they want to negotiate official title in exchange for the treaty rights the natives in BC are currently enjoying, most without treaties.
When they accept treaty rights, they give up their traditional land rights.
Poilievre – get it right if you want to get elected, otherwise you are piloting a ship sinking to the bottom.
There are no property rights in Carney’s post national agenda revealed in his 2021 klepto-socialist manifesto, “Values: Building a Better World for All” .
You will own nothing and be happy.
While I think the Cons will take power with him charge, he is just too far right for the vast majority of moderates and myself included.
He is right about this.