Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away their power over water, resource development for continued funding

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Aboriginal Affairs say it’s not forcing First Nations to sign anything on Bills C-38 and C-45. But it doesn’t say anything about Bills C-27 or S-8.

“Some of the bills that were passed on Bill C-45 and C-27 are all put into our contribution agreement and we’re saying we’re not going to sign it because it hasn’t even gotten royal assent, it hasn’t even become law and yet they’re saying we’re breaking the law if we don’t sign it, so therefore the Canadian government is more ways than one manipulating First Nations into signing a contribution agreement which they need to provide programs to their First Nation. I don’t think it’s right,” Mr. Adam said. 

He said, however, that some First Nations are reluctantly signing the agreements because they need the money even though they don’t agree with some of the conditions. “The First Nations are saying no to some stuff in there, and yet they’re signing into it through this contribution agreement, so what Canada will say is that ‘look, they have no issues because they signed the contribution agreement, everything we put forward, they’ve signed onto over here.’ Well, they’re blackmailing us into signing it. That’s what they’re doing.”

Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away their power over water, resource development for continued funding

THE MAU MAU UPRISING

“The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British Colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.” 

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RIP MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (January 15th, 1929- April 4th, 1968)

Beyond the Dream. 
Today, I urge us to complicate the narrative we are taught of Dr. King’s political activism to reveal his changing ideologies towards a discourse of “Black Power” near the final years of his life.   

“Power is not the white man’s birthright; it will not be legislated for us and delivered in neat government packages, ” he concluded. “It is a social force any group can utilize by accumulating its elements in a planned, deliberate campaign to organize it under its control.”  – Martin Luther King, Jr in Where Do We Go from Here?, quoted in Waiting ‘til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power In America by Peniel E. Joseph

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