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THE NDP and their
soul mates the federal
Liberals have signed a
treaty that “in princi-
ple” sets up an Indian
kingdom i in this
province. If it holds, it
will be followed by
about 50 other king-
doms.

The rest of us, mean-
while, are facing taxation
without representation, and
will be paying huge sums for
these Shangri-las in which
pecple who do not belong to
the right race will be wel-
come only if they are invited.

That can happen only if
Victoria gets away with it,
and a vote for the NDP
would seal the process.

Official racisrn is always
good, of course, as with
“employment equity.” It’s the
unofficial, non-tax supported
kind that is the work of the
devil.

A grassroots organization
is against what the conspira-
tors have planned, though,

and the Reform party.and the

provincial Liberals also
oppose it.
__- Well-informed people | are
devoting their talents to the
battle, chief among them . .
being |] Mel Smith, QC, British
 Columbia’s top constitutional
authority and the author of
Our Home and Native Land,
In a Fraser Institute report
on the Nisga'a issue Mr.
Smith reminds us that:
68 No judicial decision in.
Canada has found that “abo-
riginal title” gives one square
foot of land to the Indians,
and ‘aboriginal title does not
: include land ownership. (In
- short, the whole program

from coast to coast has been ;

litical).
Aboriginal “title” is
; matical to the right of the

tax tales

OF ALL the examples of gov-
* eriment squandering, nothing
has sngeied Canadians more
than the gold- plated pension
plan:.our MPs enjoy. Two
- examples:

B® Avowed separatist and for-
‘mer Bloc Quebecois leader

‘and Lucien Bouchard started’

' getting.a pension of $32,136
the moment he left Ottawa;
& Newfoundland premier and

ay former Chretien Cabinet min-,

~ ister Brian Tobin qualifies a7

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Dou
Collins

on the

other hand

“Indians to hunt, trap, and

fish, No more, no less.

@ In B.C, the Gi’itsaans tried
to lay claim to an area two-
thirds of the size of Nova
Scotia. Their case occupied
over a year of court time, but
Chief Justice Allan
McEachern “dismissed out of
hand any claim to owner-
ship.” The appeal court
upheld the essence of his
verdict.

In the North, with the cre-
ation of Nanavut, a territory
twice the size of Ontario has
been handed over to a few

thousund Inuit. The law
under which it was done was
“whistled through” partia-
ment, says Mr. Smith, on a
Friday afternoon. (That is the
usual way in which crummy
legislation is sneaked
through, most of the the
media being in the bars by
then.)

The B.C. Liberals would
put the deal to a free vote in
the legislature. But the B.C.
Reform Party takes a much
stronger position, Jack
Weisgerber wants a province-
wide referendum. The only
referendum we are likely to
get, though, is the provincial
election.

As is often the way with
the NDP, this plot was
hatched behind closed doors.
The same thing happened in
the run-up to the drafting of
Bill 33, which threatens the
freedom of the press.

The Indians were consult-
ed and the socialists and the
bureaucrats consulted one
another. The public was
ignored except for token

DRAPERIES & BLINDS
BY S.LAURSEN & SON

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mectings after the dea} was
done.

Former Liberal leader
Gordon Gibson has con-
denined it and been
denounced as a racist for his
pains. Welcome to the club,
Gordon. When fools have no
arguments left, that is how
they handle their problems.

Mr. Gibson compares the
agreement with the ill-fated
Charlottetown Accord, in the
making of which Canadians
had no say. He has also stat-
ed that “obscenely paid offi-
cials” negotiated it, one

example of which was the

$370,000 annual fee paid to
the chief federal lawyer.

Liberal MLA Mike
deJong hit the nail on the
head when he said:

“Municipalities do not
own the land within their
boundaries ... What we are
dealing with here is the
establishment of sovereign
territory.” Of course. Virtual
kingdoms.

The list of goodies our
2,400 on-reserve Nisga’a

KIDS FOLLOW THE
WATER SAFETY RULES

~DOYOU?

Of The Canadian Red Cross Society |

brothers stand to get is us
long as your arm. It includes
$190 million in cash, a race-

based fishery, a court system,

and continuing federal subsi-
dies. The thing is open
ended.

Similar deals with the rest
of this province’s Indian
“nations” would cost
billions.

Indian Affairs Minister
Ron Irwit described the
arrangement as “the first step
in a long road.” It was he,
too, who said that the alter-
native was more road blocks.

The motto on his crest is
“We Surrender.”

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