| | | 18.03.2008 11:55:52 | | THE “DAISY CHAIN GANG” | –AMBULANCE CHASERS, GOVERNMENTS AND SELL-OUT “INDIANS’ MEET TO DECONSTRUCT THE “DUTY TO CONSULT” THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
MNN. Mar. 16, 2008. If there’s one thing the Supreme Court of Canada ever got right, it’s recognizing that our Indigenous point of view has to be taken into account. They found that the old colonial habit of running over our land, stealing and destroying everything in sight as if we did not exist has to stop. They didn’t go so far as to uphold our rights under international law to our own laws and sovereignty, to uphold our right to our consent to any use of our resources.
This has not been a blessing for us. We are now overrun by lawyers and ambulance chasers. These guys are looking for ways to ensure our demise.
The bureaucrats, politicians and corporations are trying to fill their ambulances with maimed, brainless, suffering Indigenous people if they can find them. Then they hire “scumbag shysters” to chase and run them off the road. No “Indians” around to talk to. It’s a “hit and run”! Then they hold meetings on how to avoid, minimize and “deconstruct” the “duty to consult”.
On February 13 and 14, 2007 a conference on “Aboriginal Law and Consultation” was held at the fancy Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto. The cost was from $1,902.70 to $3,952.10 per person. How many economically oppressed indigenous people can afford to go there? That is the first violation of the duty to consult.
What these guys wanted to talk about was just how they can un-do and counteract international law and the Supreme Court of Canada decisions on the duty to consult. They want to make sure the colonial capitalist crooks continue to have free reign over our land and resources? They think the world economy and their piggy banks will break if they don’t rob us. Their actions are turning the world into an uninhabitable place for everyone.
This underhanded gabfest was put on by CanadianInstitute.com [1-877-927-7936], sponsored by Indian “Who-says-we-have-to-protect-‘em” Affairs [ j.zukerman@CanadianInstitute.com ] and the “Law Society of Upper Canada which was built with funds that was misappropriated from the Six Nations. They let us set up a table to sell some of our charming “Indian” souvenirs to them on their way into the hall.
Another conference was held in February 2008. On April 5 & 6 2008 a French version is coming to the Hotel Intercontinental in Montreal.
Ambulance chasers galore were given “hands-on” lessons to help industry, government and Aboriginal “Stakeholders” on how to “consult” us without actually talking to us or taking our opinions into account. The aim is to make it look like consultation took place while keeping the lid on all their plans. We find out when they tell us to move because they polluted the water or they need the minerals under our community “for medical isotopes”, or they need a place to blow up their “dirty bombs”…
The attendees are independent and in-house ambulance chasers; CEOs; VPs; Directors and managers of Aboriginal “stakeholder” relations[?]; mining, forestry, environment, energy and constitutional law breakers; litigators; negotiators; mediators; bureaucrats; and, of course, the “Vichy” collaborator band councilors. Everyone is looking to profit off our backs.
It’s called the “Three Monkeys Strategy” – they have to make sure we do not hear, see or say anything against these crooks and their agents.
In Mohawk we call these ambulance chasers and their clients the “Ratso-tsi-reks”, which means “bottom suckers”. Brothers and sisters, watch out for them!
Heading the Ratso-tsi-reks are Ben Jetton of Blake, Cassels & Graydon and Dan Richard, ADM Indian Affairs.
The “experts” are John “Vanilla” Puddon of Voisey’s Bay Nickel Company; Jack Edmond of the Indian Claims Commission; Ron Stevenson of Justice Canada; and Ria Tzimas of the Attorney General of Ontario.
Alan “Whose-wife-stands-by-her-man-who-treads-on-her-brothers’-time-with-AIM-two-years-before-they-met” Pratt told about how he deconstructs the “duty to consult”. [Alan, if we met someone who met the Queen, would we be her close personal friends?] He put aside Supreme Court decisions like Mikisew Cree, Haida & Taku River. He pondered, “Does the duty to consult mean talking to my wife to see if I can pick up any double hearsay she may have collected? Just how does one distinguish the duty to consult from plain old gossip? [Like, I met a guy in a bar who said blah, blah…] [Is consultation some kind of sexually transmitted disease?] He asked, “Does this require consensus on all points?” Alan, it’s like saying you want to rape our children, so can we sit down together and talk about it? No, get out of our face. We don’t talk to rapists.
Julie Abouchar of Willms & Shier and Carol Crowe of Indigenous Visions asked, “How can the Aboriginal connection to the land be reconciled with industry and government objectives?” Ladies! There’s no big question here. It can’t! WHAT’S TO UNDERSTAND? Canada never got our informed consent to take over our resources. It’s up to us to assess or not to assess. We’ll decide who to talk to and when, if ever! Besides stealing our lands and resources, now they’re trying to steal our consent too!
Martin Bayer of Weaver Simmons of Sudbury and Caroline Findlay of Blake Cassels & Graydon of Vancouver talked about “impact benefit agreements” IBAs. These are agreements between the beneficiaries [the rapists] and our affected communities. There is no benefit in raping and ravaging mother earth. The way they talk, you’d think that radioactivity was good for us. The goal is to steal our minerals and resources from us, the caretakers, and then sell it to international corporate “carpetbaggers”. They funnel as much of the proceeds as possible into their own pockets. They’re trying to turn us into a new version of the “road allowance people” by depriving us of all of our assets, even the communities we live in.
Carmen Diges of McMillan Binch Mendelsohn covered “Accommodation Initiatives”, which is how to make us look “unreasonable” so they can go ahead with their mining or logging project.
Daniel Richard of Indian Affairs talked about giving us a few jobs – to mop the floor and empty their ash trays. We don’t think so. Anyone who is stupid enough to get suckered by this line has seen the consequences. Apparently only two Indigenous people got jobs out of the theft of the Dehcho’s forests.
Brian “the Crapper” Crane of Gowling Lafleur Henderson talked about avoiding key mistakes during negotiations. “Can projects go ahead in the face of unresolved claims?” he asked. Of course not, you twit!
Brad “We-know-a-creeper-when-we-see-one” Morse, talked about defining the “honor of the Crown” and its fiduciary duties. This guy is known for presenting relatively favorable analyses for us. His topic shows he’s been dragged into the hull of the colonial ship. He knows that none of us ever agreed to become British subjects. The only duty that Canada has is to act as an honorable ally. Morse assumes that no one can question the validity of the invasion of Britain ’s imaginary sovereignty. The Queen is supposed to carry out her responsibilities through her Governor General, another squatter. She never has. The way it’s set up, everybody thinks that no one can go after her over it. She always has to sit on top of their heads and they like it. She’s the umbrella that shields these criminals.
John Beaucase of the Union of Ontario Indians, Kate Kempton of Oltius Kleer Townshend and S. Ronald of Justice Canada talked about water rights, fishing and hunting. Let’s remind the squatters that they never brought anything with them when they washed up on our shores. Today drinking water in 70% of our communities is contaminated by their toxic waste, a lot of which comes from within them. Clean it up! Then get out! You lousy visitors. By the way, Canada does not “produce” uranium. These landless pirates steal it from us and then sell it!
Jeff Cowan of WeirFoulds, John Edmond of the Indian Claims Commission, Patrick “the-little-punk-whose-trying-to-bully-a-Mohawk-grandmother” Nadjiwan of North Bay and Linda Rychel of Indian Affairs tried to “demystify Aboriginal title”. What mystery? We have rights like all other human beings? It’s all ours! Get used to it!
Ronald Doering, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, who doubles as a “negotiator” at 6 Nations, spoke about his fears of another “ Caledonia ”. Where? It appeared he did not mention that the issue was really the stolen land of the Haudenosaunee and that the “Crown” had no defense when their wrong-doing was thrown in their faces. Did he explain how they had to back off? Why didn’t he invite someone like Janie Jamieson, who’s been involved in the issue from the beginning, so she could explain it in her own voice? Isn’t that what consultation is about? No, not at this “hearsay fest”, it seems.
Mahmud Jamal of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt talked about the costs of litigation. Is this designed to remind industries how easy it is to make sure Indians can’t afford to fight these ambulance chasers and their masters?
Ria Tzimas outlined how industry can use “judicial intervention” against Indigenous people who try to protect their property and stop development. She didn’t know how to explain “irreparable harm”. Is that because she refuses to recognize that this is all about rape techniques? Here’s our definition – the insatiable greed of the power hungry.
Rodney Snow of Davis & Company talked about whether we should benefit from our resources and what happens if we argue for this??? Is there a question here? They have no right to our possessions, except when they point guns at us and threaten us with court injunctions, law suits and jail sentences. It’s called “highway “genocide” robbery!”
They gave “tips and traps” to watch for in their meetings with us. What could some of these traps be? Attending meetings organized by the Indigenous people themselves? Holding meetings in the community? Fully advertising the meeting? Bringing their own experts? Spending more than 3 hours in the community so they start understanding our realities? Making scientific evidence available to show the reality of pollution of our land and communities? Making sure that everyone has a chance to speak? No time lines? Fully assessing the consequences of development for the generations to come? Letting everyone talk besides those on the band council payroll? Allowing traditionalists to define the issues? [That’s really dangerous!]. The bottom line is that they want to shut us up. They will go through the motions but they’re in a big hurry to hit the jackpot. They don’t want to understand us. If they did, they’d probably have to drop their insane projects. When we say “NO”, it’s no and they have to accept it. They can’t start openly or covertly attacking, jailing and undermining us to get their way.
Carole Crow did a workshop on determining how far they can force us to “bend” to their law. She doesn’t even realize that we have laws and that there is no need to bend international law. All they need to do is to respect our sovereignty and back off – stop the rape!
Brought onto the gravy train in 2008 were Sylvia Duquette of Indian Affairs, Lynn Beak of the BC Ministry of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation, David Chartrand of the Manitoba Metis Federation and Grant Wedgie of the Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. [Contact Heather Morrison at 416-927-0718 ext. 302. h.morrison@canadianinstitute.com] There is a total exclusion of Indigenous voices. Only those on the colonial payroll and interests are welcome. By insisting that this is a “law” conference and excluding our law, they try to give the appearance of consultation, while defining us out of existence.
Their “Distinguished Faculty” included: David General, the former chief of Six Nations of the Grand River who just got kicked out. He was brought in to brag about his tricks to derail the Six Nations talks. He apparently gloated on his “failures” at “capacity building”. Did he tell them about the time he ran into the “talks” and tried to shut it down and got thrown out through the front door? He later showed up at a hockey game with one of the colonial negotiators. His interest appears to be mostly getting money, more money and serving his colonial masters.
Mother Joan Holmes, the expert on creating paper “Indians” who is now an expert is creating “metis”, was there. It seems that anyone from anywhere in the world can become a “metis”. James O’Reilly of Montreal, long time Iroquois and Cree groupie who became rich setting up a cottage industry on our backs, was there showing them how it’s done. He’ll be at the French one.
Other new learners were JoAnn Jamieson of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Calgary; Steve Lindley of Aboriginal Affairs of SNC Lavalin Inc.; Jason Madden of JTM Law; Michael McCulloch of Aboriginal law at Justice Canada; Kevin O’Callaghan of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin; and Cliff Proudfoot of Lawson Lundell of Vancouver.
Corporations Platinex, Whitefish Lake and Frontenac Ventures discussed how they put some of the defenders of the land in jail to “scare” the “stuffing” out of them. It was a choice between “blow-‘em-away” or “put-em-away”. They asked if “the Crown has a fiduciary duty with respect to the investment of Indigenous trust monies?” In other words, how can they avoid any responsibilities to us? The new scam is likely to set up “joint ventures”, to give the appearance of equality. But it leaves full control in the hands of the corporate drafters of the agreements. Especially since great care will be taken to choose the “right Indian” representatives. Certainly not the true ones! As usual, they will be looking for greedy and gullible people to sign whatever they tell them to.
Their session on “Creating a Level Playing Field for Consultation” is obviously pure hypocrisy. Nowhere to be seen are Indigenous people. This is really about how the ambulance chasers can build a hall of mirrors. They want to line us up like sitting ducks so they can shoot any who dare to sit up and disturb the view they want to see.
They yakked with each other night and day. Their real concern is how to avoid true consultation. They didn’t want us there. That’s why they held it far, far away from most us. It was like a “mob” get-together. They fear what we might say if we were there to give them a piece of our minds.
Finally, in 2008 Cynthia Vanier focused on “high risk” dispute resolution, fraud, money laundering, asset recovery, kidnap and ransom - all the things they’re doing to us. She also outlined how to get us to look like terrorists. You can be sure that “kidnapping” does not include their excessive imprisonment of our people. It’s no coincidence that one of the first things that Canada did after Con’fraud’eration was build a pen at Prince Albert Saskatchewan. Canada is still committing genocide.
We can only wonder what they spoke about during breaks. We doubt if they even had enough self-awareness to talk about how to squash any Indigenous who opposes their fraud? How they gang up on them and their internet providers. Did they figure out how to “filet” the Mohawks at MNN? They probably found out that our skin is seven spans thick.
The question they posed was “How do we find out if lands are subject to a land claim?” The real question is, “What can we do now that we know that none of the lands that Corporate Canada claims has ever been legally ceded?” The bottom line is that they are figuring out how to talk to us so they only hear what they want to hear. These conferences are doing an “end run” around legitimate consultation.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
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