Jurisdiction over Aboriginals

Re: Ottawa has jurisdiction over all indigenous people.
 
We are all equal under the law - except you, and you, and you, and you ...
 
The federal judiciary has been busy, exercising its colonial prerogatives, and has made a number of rulings over the years, creating several classes of citizens.
 
The most recent ruling extending the federal government's responsibilities to include approximately 200,000 Métis and 400,000 non-status aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves, created yet another class.
 
Determining whether particular individuals are non-status Indians or Métis — or exactly who this ruling now applies to — is a "fact-driven question, to be decided on a case-by-case basis in the future." 
 
That part of the ruling will translate into countless years of frustrating delays, while wasting billions of dollars in fees for lawyers and court costs.
 
While Indians/Métis/Eskimos/Indigenous/First Nation/Aboriginals/ etc., or whatever the politically correct term may be at the moment, have been busy filing claims for lands, resources and benefits, the remaining 34 million Canadians, and corporate Canada, has been put on hold wondering when this colonial gong show will stop.
 
When our Prime Minister in 1982 proposed to re-patriate the Constitution, he was referring to the BNA (British North America Act), an Act the British government used to control its many colonies.
 
Colonial rule is a thing of the past, and almost all of those colonies have become sovereign countries, and have written their own Constitution.
 
Canadian politicians are refusing to make the transition, and the government of the day continues to ‘colonize’ the country – without even ‘consulting’ with the Aboriginals.
 
This year alone, Liberal Immigration Minister John McCallum is proposing to accept 305,000 new ‘permanent residents’. What rights will those people have?
 
Over the last four centuries, millions of Europeans immigrated to Canada in good faith, and helped toil and build the Canada we have today. What rights to lands and resources will they ultimately have – if any?
 
According to Delgamuukw, at paragraph 190, Aboriginal title comes with an important restriction — it is collective title.
 
Without title ‘fee simple’ Indians will never be able to own property on Indian lands, let alone have the financial freedom to participate in and benefit from, the 21st century Canadian socio-economic future.
 
The ruling will only set the stage for another Attawapiskat.
 
To insist the Indians/Métis/Eskimos/Indigenous/First Nation/Aboriginals/etc. continue to live in the past, each with its own set of rules, is incomprehensible.

Andy Thomsen