May 27, 2025
“To all investors and companies looking to invest in Ontario, we urge you to do your due diligence and speak directly to our First Nations. While both federal and provincial leaders claim Canada and Ontario to be ‘Open for business’ or to ‘Build, baby, build’, First Nations resources are not Ontario’s nor Canada’s resources, nor any other organization claiming to be rights holders, such as the Métis Nation of Ontario, to do as they wish or claim benefit and profit from. Only our First Nations can assure you that it is safe to invest in projects on our lands and should be consulted on anything that happens or is to happen on Treaty and Aboriginal Title territory,” states Grand Council Chief Debassige. “In addition to our inherent and treaty rights, our Aboriginal rights are further recognized and affirmed in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and our self-determination is reaffirmed in international human rights frameworks like the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
aha, to put it in words that I understand, the structure remains owned by whoever is using it, but the land underneath becomes communal a bit like collectivization but the indigenous government is in charge (instead of the people democratically). So the house located in landback land is still owned by and lived in by the same people, and the employer remains in business if the operation is indoors.
Sure, but it also means much less polluting of the environment and shutting down bad projects like pipelines and forcing corporations to clean up their shit.
oh yeah, that would be an effective exercise of communal landowner power
Yeah, especially since they keep polluting the places indigenous peoples do live, things that they need to live, like water.