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An interesting point of view, but what undermines the argument is the fact that these veiws can only be promoted by money from Canadian taxpayers, and applied (if at all) by creative use of Canadian Law in Canadian Courts, and enforced (if at all) by the power of the Canadian State.
http://www.ottawacore.com/blog/2006/07/02/canada-an-iroquois-perspective/
http://www.ottawacore.com/blog/2006/07/02/canada-an-iroquois-perspective/
An Iroquois Perspective
by Tsi Nikayen’ Enonhne’
She:kon!
Canada is NOT a country. A sovereign nation IS sovereign because it makes a declaration and then practices it accordingly. It holds land and declares borders. A true nation has a constitution authorized by its citizens and upheld by its courts. An independent country authorizes law and statutes, and its head of state - often a president - is the head of its government.
But then look at Canada. The formation of a federation proposed under the British North America Act was an incorporation of business interests and it was authorized by the Crown. A federation is a loose group of people who join for common interests and it is well stated that the fathers of confederation were concerned about attack and financial manipulation by the US. The Confederation was formed as a counter measure to hostile business interests in the US.
Canada has no land base. Sovereign territories always have some land base. The only thing Canada ever had was purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Company and from an examination of the documents the Hudson’s Bay never held ownership in the land either. All they did possess was a commerce territory - not unlike a salesman’s territory - and THAT is what they sold. Also during the process of Confederation not one document purports to rescind or transfer the rights identified in the Royal Proclamation of 1763. In fact it was the British position that the Royal Proclamation - which identifies all of the territories west of a line drawn from Ottawa to Kingston - was off limits to British subjects for settlement and it was proclaimed as “Indian lands” only. Even the lands that were settled prior to the Royal Proclamation were considered Indian Lands, although it is recognized that settlement of those areas had already occurred. Canada has no land base - a prerequisite of being a country.
Canda never made a declaration of independence and instead not only asked permission from its sovereign to form the ~company~ but the Crown sought permisssion from our Royaner prior to Confederation. A ~company~ that seeks permission for its existence is not a country and can only be a subject of another sovereign who dictates the rules under which it operates.
The Constitution was not patriated by Canadians. Rather it was authorized by the Crown as the sovereign holding authority over Canada. There was little involved in a public process in which the citizen’s opinions were sought and captured as the values of its people and the basic rights of all people. Yet a corporate constitution can provide for the rights of its employees it still must identify the supreme law that would override their consitutional authority should a dispute arise. Low and behold, Section 25 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms…and then Section 35 which was added after - prescribes that all existing treaties with First Nations are valid and that the Royal Proclamation and any aboriginal rights that pre-existed confederation or which were added in future treaty negotiations were valid. These treaties were agreements between Britain as the sovereign authority, and the sovereign First Nations. This further implies that the ~company~ of Canada is subject to a greater authority - that of the Crown and in fact First Nations through these treaty agreements.
And for just a brief moment if that isn’t enough, consider how much of the consitution is actually defined by the courts and laws are voided as a result. If you had a real consitution certainly the courts and another sovereign nation would not be giving you permission to use it.
Canada has a Prime Minister BUT its head of State is the Governor General representing the Crown. While many argue that this is an honourary position, the laws still exist granting authority of the GG on behalf of the Crown to dissolve governments, to dismiss the Prime Minster in certain circumstances and to reject some legislation when the GG feels it is not in the best interest of Canada. Even though Candians believe in the myth of sovereignty you are in fact still very much tied to and under the authority of Britain and the Queen.
Canada therefore is nothing but a ~company~ with a corporate constitution and letters patent. Those articles of incorporation issued by the Crown have no weight in Indian Country and for the most part Canada has been operating illegally in most parts of Kanyenke. And while you have been conditioned to believe that you are independent and self-determining, you are not a sovereign nation in any sense of the word. Canadians operate under a myriad of myths and it is time that you woke up to your enfranchisement by corporate interests. You’ve been duped. Royally.
Yes, Happy Birthday Canada the cake isn’t even real and the icing is… well….pretty bland….The is the first day in the rest of your new life under Haudenosaunee governance.
O:nen