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Jeronimo kataquapit, a member of the first nation atavapat in Ontario, is located outside a fire rich in mineral mineral minerals. The canoe alone and the tent, a 20-year-old guy and his family drove more than 400 kilometers to protest against the provincial law, which appointed the area with a “special economic zone” for mining.
Now the law of Prime Minister Mark Karnya “National Construction” – its first major legislative act – is ready to put even more attention to the region. The law, dubbed the only Canadian economy law, was adopted at a time when the country is involved in an expensive trade war with the United States.
And although it can bring billions of investments to places such as “Fire Rings”, it can also blow indigenous residents to their own land, community members are afraid.
“Ever since these laws have been adopted, it is no longer about the advice of indigenous residents, it is about consent,” Katakopit says. “According to whether you are allowed to come to our home territories, our livelihoods and to build anything.
The projects have not yet been selected, but the government hinted on several items in its wishes, including the pipeline along the British Colombia coast and the carbon seizure project in Alberta’s oil sands. A ring of fire, 5000 square kilometers living for significant deposits of chromite, nickel, copper, gold, zinc and other mineral
But while Carney’s legislation was considered to be an early victory for the new Prime Minister, environmental groups have caused concern that the law and others love it, providing shortcuts to go through existing environmental processes. Meanwhile, indigenous leaders, such as the regional head of Ontario Abram Benedict, claim that the law undermines their territorial rights.
“We have environmental evaluations based on indigenous exercises,” says Benedict. “We are considering everything: air, earth, water and animals. The time and again we see the development of a project that has not taken into account the knowledge of indigenous residents, and the project has not passed.”
Consultations with indigenous communities in Canada are not courtesy. The country’s constitution confirms the rights of indigenous residents and requires preliminary and informed consent to actions that affect their land and resources.
But the fact that these comfort should be pulling was often a rich discussion.
Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice Canada, said that “first -nations” counseling “stop veto.
“The law is a duty to consult, accept problems, and in many cases they agree,” she said last month in the political podcast “Violation”.
If the conversations between the government and the indigenous settlement are destroyed, it may be expensive.
Court documents show that the royal Canadian police have spent nearly $ 50 million ($ 36 million, 27 million pounds) Police resistance against pipeline projects In British Colombia.
According to estimates, in 2020, under the leadership of the first nation, governed by the first nation, a protest against the British Colombia pipeline is estimated to be the cost Hundreds of millions of Canadian dollars a day.
The pressure is now forming the Prime Minister to attract indigenous groups.
Karni said the indigenous leadership is the main place in the construction of a stronger economy, including within the Single Law on the Canadian Economics and initiatives, such as a program of guaranteeing indigenous loans. On Thursday, Carni, he will sit with the first nations, and later this month with Inuit and Metis groups.
The head of the first -nation assembly, Cindy Woodhaus Nepin, told the BBC that she had asked for upcoming consultations. Last week, the first -nation assembly held a virtual forum with chiefs all over Canada, and Woodhaus Nepin said they were “united” and proposed amendments to the law they plan to bring out on Thursday.
But for some it may be late.
The chief of the first nation of the Nishnovka Osk, Elwin Fidler, warned that the law of Karni “would not apply in (their) territories”. Fidler also called on Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Antario.
On Wednesday, nine first nations from Ontario launched a constitutional problem, arguing on Ontario’s legislation, and the Federal Carney Law, presenting a “clear and true danger” to their lifestyle and self -determination.
Kate Kempton, a senior lawyer of the group, criticized the laws that the government is “unbroken, unlimited powers to wave a charming wand” and force development projects to go forward, despite objections from indigenous communities.
Meanwhile, even the indigenous leaders who are usually a development have expressed concern. Alberta’s Six peoples of the Great Greg Dajarlas, which is part of the Western indigenous pipeline, stated that the Ottawa was still engaged in the Law “Construction of the Nation”.
“This is 2025, the first countries should be included in consultation, property and income exchange,” he said to the BBC.
However, some remain hoping they can work with the government.
John Dedgearla (without relationships), the executive director of the Native Resources network, which is Metis from Saskatzne, said he was optimistic.
“We want economic development opportunities,” Dedgearla said. “We can develop in accordance with our indigenous interests, solving our problems, promoting opportunities and still very to be the leaders of the Earth.”
