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[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Not a tiny selection of them who want to maximize rent seeking".

Ah yes, indigenous people. The greediest people in the country. Get the fuck out of here with your garbage. Human rights are not on the debate table, and you frankly saying they want to "maximize rent" as if they're leeching to profit off the country rather than have a means to reasonably support themselves fiscally is downright disgusting.

If a rich person decided to buy the resources off the indigenous, and they decided it was in their best interest to take the offer, then yeah, while I'd be opposed to the idea of that, it's still their treaty rights to decide for themselves.

Treaty rights are human rights and they are not on the table, and to suggest otherwise in any matter is to ignore the bullshit indigenous people have had to deal with for generations. They are to be included in the conversation because they are quite literally more "Canadian" than anybody else in the country and deserve to have their voices heard and their standard of living raised just as any other person's should be with harvesting our natural resources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I just have to say, I really appreciate you on this forum and thank you for standing up to ignorant people like them as regularly as you do. It is refreshing to see. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

I showed we had the slowest growth in the OECD due to this same bureaucracy, you're hurting those you think you are helping, these things fund our safety net.

When we hit a recession you won't be able to blame greedy corporations for our ills, it will have been those putting up barricades for growth. We have food bank usage rising extremely quickly, people living in rest stops, and we haven't even hit a recession yet.