Concerned citizen asks a simple question about aboriginal title rights in Richmond: “Why did Cowichan Tribes claim the land recently rather than 150 years ago?”

@greybeard46 Because some dope decided we should virtue signal and do land acknowledgments everywhere telling everyone it’s natives’ land. Duh

When B.C. joined Canada in 1871, the Crown’s title to all land was recognized as underlying and absolute. All aboriginal land claims are bull shit money grabs because they are lazy and want more free handouts. They literally use “oral history” as evidence in these trials.

Most Canadians are too polite to say the truth about this, but I will. They didn't make the claim 150 years ago because they were not really a thing.

Well..it was probably a swamp 150 yrs ago. White men made it worth a lot of money.

The Cowichan have been pursuing this claim since 1857 going so far as to directly petition the King in England in 1908. The Indian Act forbid hiring lawyers for landclaims or raising money to pay them for generations. This is not a new claim. You are spreading disinformation.

Why? Cause it was undeveloped swamp marsh is why! Now it’s worth money! 💰

B.C. chiefs went to London in 1906 to petition the King and later voiced their grievances in the Laurier Memorial of 1910. Canada answered with land bans in 1911 and a lawyer ban from 1927 to 1951. They didn’t wait 150 years — they were banned from justice.

So, if they own all the land, the govt illegally charged property tax on all that land. Natives don't have property tax. Where are the refunds?

They have been in the treaty process since 1996 and are at Stage 5, the final process. However they have had little incentive to finish the process since social justice activist governments in BC and Ottawa were elected, who are happy to give it all away for a few votes from urban communists

Cowichan history is also quite brutal. Their ancestors were slavers and raided other tribes. They had to stop their slave trading and ownership when other cultures came to this land.

Because 150 years ago they didn't want the land. They only wanted the slaves they could take from that land. As they did along the BC coast and down into what is now Washington. They were a genocidal rabble. Crazy to see millions of citizens have their rights imperiled by this crap.

Because it is developed and they will just move in. Who is going to do the maintenance seeing as they do not pay taxes. Oh right, my tax dollars

Also, what about the tribes that were there first and were massacred by the Cowichan Tribe to take the land? Where are their rights?

Show me the written native title document. Stories can be fabricated, and cannot be verified one way or the other.

Does everyone get their accumulated property taxes back?

natives never believed in land ownership. The government will now have to pay back all the illegal taxes they collected from the land. and the banks will have to pay back all the interest they charged on loans for homes that they had no right to charge..

The consequences of the virtue signal are never good.

What was the answer

Take the term “First Nation.” It’s a linguistic joke — a nation, by definition, governs itself. If you’re funded, managed, and legislated by Ottawa, you’re not a nation; you’re an administrative ward. Yet politicians and media parrots keep repeating the term until people swallow it without thinking. That’s how easy it is to program the herd — just repeat the nonsense loud enough, long enough, and call it virtue. Independent thinkers question absurd posturing. This is not a racist rant just realism in a society that has been conditioned to accept nonsense from politicians.

I mean....based on this logic of FNs.......what land isn't theirs........this whole country is theirs. We paying property taxes to the wrong people.......lmfao........... Imagine that....paying property taxes and you don't own the property..............

Spoiler alert, and who was there before the Cowichan Tribes?

@westernstandard Duh: because 150 years ago it was worthless undeveloped land. Today it’s worth $100s of millions!

The real question is: when did you all take away our right to own anything? I feel like civil wars have started for less

If Canada was undeveloped these natives would've migrated somewhere else in the world, however, now that it's built up and prospered they want it. Also, there are wolves, salivating at the wealth tied up into private real estate. They are going to come up with ways to unlock that wealth and get themselves a piece of that pie, if not the whole thing.

Greed. And they want the Canadians in 15 minute cities. One prong of that is to take their land. Your government hates you. But you like it, voted for it, and defend it with your elbows up Rather funny But also sad

Because the Liberals only recently installed Woke Warrior judges to further destroy the country.

Because it's worth something now, and Canada's legal system revolves around being progressive.

Electing Socialists have consequences. Socialists are all for destroying private property, they hire and appoint judges that are socialist leaning. It is the fault of the ignorant voting population that keep voting for

Sounds like a born somewhere else never took the time to understand Canada and the Indian Act before opening their mouths.

We should have built MORE residential schools.

Because Charles wasn't around 150yrs ago to tell them to

LMAO, they did claim it 150 years ago though. OMG these people need a citizenship test. Do these people know that. I guess they never heard about the Chilcotin war because Canada was too busy apologizing for the komogate mura and railroad workers n not signing agreements

If they lay claim to the land , they should repay all the Billions of dollars they were paid!