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Why is First Nations legal recognition of the right to clean drinking water a threat to Ontario and Alberta? - Indigenous Watchdog
Todd McCarthy, Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and Rebecca Schulz, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas of Alberta recently issued a letter asking the federal government to “refrain” from re-introducing Bill C-61 …Douglas Sinclair (Indigenous Watchdog)
David Mitchell
in reply to T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 • • •Water rights for indigenous communities will “undermine competitiveness, and delay project development” according to the governments of Alberta and Ontario.
There are many basic - fundamental - legal rights and principles that “delay project development.”
Hey, we could just set them *all* aside - we have ignored them before: we could stop paying even lip-service to consultation; we could accept any amount of pollution and degradation of the land and water; we could allow companies to show up with buses and ship everyone hundreds of km away and bulldoze their homes and communities if they are in the way; really we could go back to just starving everyone out, or even save time and shoot, gas, or bomb everyone into mass graves; why not? It’s what all the other fascists are doing now, or will be soon.
Fascism-lite is still fascism.
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