Cindy

"How can we dismiss the #Climate crisis? It's real, it's happening. We have #HeatDomes people are dying from. We have #wildfires. That has to be one of your top agendas — not just the economy and business to Canada. You have to address the #ClimateCrisis."

~ Chief Judy Wilson, Neskonlith Indian Band in B.C. at Assembly of First Nations (AFN) meeting addressing 🇨🇦 Conservative leader's speech (July 11, 2024)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-first-nations-afn-1.7259828

Poilievre promises less interference, more economic control in speech to Assembly of First Nations | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made his first in-person speech to the Assembly of First Nations Thursday, promising the chiefs gathered in Montreal to reduce the federal government's role in their lives and give them more say over their economic future. 

CBC
Jul 12, 2024 at 3:25pmWeb
Show threadCindyJul 12, 2024

"In your speech, you did not acknowledge missing, murdered women, you did not acknowledge the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, you did not acknowledge the inherent title rights where my people come from."

"You also failed to recognize our residential school survivors...a real, live issue"

#UNDRIP

~ Chief Judy Wilson, Neskonlith Indian Band B.C. at Assembly of First Nations meeting addressing 🇨🇦 Conservative leader's speech (July 11, 2024)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-first-nations-afn-1.7259828

Poilievre promises less interference, more economic control in speech to Assembly of First Nations | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made his first in-person speech to the Assembly of First Nations Thursday, promising the chiefs gathered in Montreal to reduce the federal government's role in their lives and give them more say over their economic future. 

CBC
Show threadCindyJul 12, 2024

Indigenous communities feared the bill (controversial omnibus bill introduced in 2012 by Harper's government) would diminish their rights while making it easier for governments and industry to develop resources without strict environmental assessments.

In advance of the speech Tsartlip First Nation Chief Don Tom said that "our experience in the past hasn't been great working with a Conservative government, so we're a little bit worried."

#UNDRIP #IdleNoMore

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-first-nations-afn-1.7259828

Poilievre promises less interference, more economic control in speech to Assembly of First Nations | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made his first in-person speech to the Assembly of First Nations Thursday, promising the chiefs gathered in Montreal to reduce the federal government's role in their lives and give them more say over their economic future. 

CBC
Show threadAnneJul 12, 2024
@thegreenpagesBC Money and power are the only things that truly matter to them. Anything else is just for show.
Show threadHolly 🇨🇦Jul 12, 2024
@thegreenpagesBC Translation of “less interference”: give big business a free for all to do what they like, when they like. That never works out well.
Show threadCindyJul 13, 2024
@Yup_Its_Holly Indeed. They are just weasel words