Clearwater River Dene Nation wird ab August einen Kontrollpunkt auf dem Highway 955 einrichten

And Kahnawake wants to toll a bridge that 120,000 people cross daily to get to Montreal.

[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mohawk-council-kahnawake-road-tolls-federal-cuts-1.7601657](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mohawk-council-kahnawake-road-tolls-federal-cuts-1.7601657)

I hope they’re successful. I hope all of them keep pushing the envelope. When it comes time to open the constitution and change section 35, there’ll be no province against it.

oooh this could a fun (and awful) court battle. in theory rez police should be able to set up a checkpoint, as cops all over the country occasionally do when necessary. though if they push it too far they might run into issues with the highways and transportation act.

if what they’re saying is true and it’s just monitoring who/what is coming and going and they don’t prevent people from going through it’ll probably be allowed and just inconvenient

The feds are pushing the uranium deals hard. They’ve opened up a Crown corporation just to sell uranium to other countries and part of that is an expansion in mining.

BC and Albera has set precedence with LNG and the oil sands where as long as the contracts flow the projects will go ahead. Indigenous owned companies get first take at many of the support contracts or have direct investment.

As Devil’s advocate, for some of these remote bands, there isn’t much fiscal opportunity. It’s not like Vancouver where they can capitalize on real estate. Not saying this is right or legal, but it’s the same tactics used by the bands out here.

And for what I know in BC, many bands are trying to promote quality of life on the reservations. Lots of new infrastructure, schools, support housing, low income housing, etc. is being built in remote communities. These places were pretty depressed after the resource drop out of the late 80s early 90s.

Either the feds are not negotiating in good faith, or what’s been offered is not even close to what was expected. And considering how quickly nuclear power is coming back and the expected growth, combined with embargoes on Russian. There’s a lot of money to be made here and the bands are not going to miss out.

Your unelected government hard at work.

How much this time?