First Nation strebt Aborigine-Titel für das Gebiet von British Columbia an, einschließlich Kamloops und Sun Peaks | Urbanisiert

This isn’t going to lead anywhere good. I understand why the first nations are doing it, but somebody needs to quickly make a definitive decision quickly.

If all the land becomes owned by just 2% of the population (regardless if they should be the owners legally), it will turn into a very difficult situation to manage I would imagine.

People need to understand that aboriginal title and fee simple can coexist. No one is going to lose their home to aboriginal title. 

Per the judge in the Cowichan ruling:

> „Richmond’s submission that a declaration of Aboriginal title will destroy the land title system and the [Land Title Act], wreak economic havoc and harm every resident in British Columbia is not a reasoned analysis on the evidence,“ the judge wrote in her ruling.

> „It inflames and incites rather than grapples with the evidence and scope of the claim in this case.“

> …

> Aboriginal title is a communal right to land that „cannot be encumbered, developed or used in ways that would prevent future generations of the group from using and enjoying it.“

> And while fee simple title allows owners and their successors to „do with the property as they wish, within the limits set by the law,“ it also has constraints including „environmental protection statutes, planning and zoning legislation, expropriation by the state.“

> „This should not be a zero-sum game,“ Young writes, echoing the author of a 2015 article titled Aboriginal Title and Private Property Rights.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-aboriginal-title-land-ownership-9.6965257

This approach feels like it’s going to blow up in the FN’s faces. They don’t have any *actual* hard ability to resist the populist backlash that they will inevitably cause.  

The courts only have power here as long as most Canadians accept that they do.  If they start making a bunch of decisions 80% of the population hates to serve a tiny minority, that faith will evaporate rapidly. 

I mean, the end result way down the line is that current property owners will lease the land from First Nations.

There are already plenty of residential developments in Kelowna and Tsawwassen and Chilliwack that are like this.

Somebody needs to figure out a realistic resolution to this. Was the land incorrectly taken? Most likely.

Are the individual people / companies who currently live on the land or own at fault? In most cases no. (Not all but most)

Is it reasonable to give all power of the land to a group representing about 2-4% of the population? No.

The federal and provincial governments should sit down t with the bands in these areas and come to some kind of agreement. Failing that, they may have to create new legislation or even amend the constitution to properly define this in such a way that doesn’t result in most people losing control of their property but still coming to some kind of reconciliation with the indigenous people that is reasonable. Even if they cannot get all the various bands to agree.

Because if you just give all the land to one group, that makes the vast majority of people second class citizens and the vast majority probably will not accept that. Dont say,“ but that’s what the white folks did to us“ because, end of the day an eye for an eye makes the world go blind. Two wrongs won’t make a right here.

Forcing it this way will lead somewhere dark. I don’t see the police or anyone other government authority actually ultimately enforcing this, because at some point if you’re taking all their land from them too, they might not do their jobs, because at that point, why would they?

Hopefully people see reason and sit down and figure something out.