Because We Need More Protection for White Rights

[bcholmes]

The rights of non-native Canadians would have been threatened had the government not opposed an indigenous rights declaration that the United Nations overwhelmingly approved yesterday, Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said.

The Universal Declaration of Indigenous Peoples' Rights is inconsistent with Canadian legal tradition, and signing on to it would have given native groups an unfair advantage, the minister said.

— Montreal Gazette (A CanWest Global paper)

Apparently we're one of only four countries to vote no. Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand.

Comments

"complacency, thy name is me"

[rashelleym.livejournal.com]

I think it's interesting that the United Kingdom was apparently the only English-speaking signatory. And that representives from Nigeria, the Russian Federation, and several of the 'Stans (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10612.doc.htm) around the Caspian "oil treasures" simply didn't vote.

There exists in "my mind" not an iota of doubt that "our owners' self-government sucks." However, its "saving grace" is that it also blows. And in that eternal rhythm of sucking and blowing, self-government seems, really, to mirror its own nurtural cycles.