Feel good knowing your hard earned tax dollars are paying for their snow machines guns and bullets to waste those moose? We all support them and their rights..
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The next few years will be interesting to see how this pans out. More could be done but its a start at least.
We cannot do anything about the native hunt and poachers, all that we can control is the amount that non-native hunters take out of the population and no matter what people say about the natives, the bears and the wolves, those animals will still be taken by those sources and the only limiting factor is non-native hunters.
If the government of the day, any day, goes to court over native rights, native rights win every time. Why? Because they have the piece of paper (contract), that was signed many generations ago by a lawful government. If courts upheld all of the native claims, they WOULD own a large part of the country. When does a contract, a signed legal document, between parties, no longer apply? When one party does not want it to? When it is inconvenient? What are natives doing when they unnecessarily kill animals because they can? As my mother would say, 'They are cutting off their nose, to spite their face'.
Agreed....... but their mind set 'might be', mind you I say 'might be'...... Why work for it, I own it. Or , they view it as rent, for us to live in their house.
Agree again, everyone should have a purpose in life, it gives life meaning.
I agree with that theory...to a point. Courts always seem to uphold native claims which were agreed to by treaty being a signed contract between two parties,The Crown and First Nations. A learned legal mind who is a close friend opined among some peers that he's never seen nor read anywhere in jurisprudence of a law suit by First Nations over property ownership of Canada,outright. In the discussion,it was the general consensus that the reason for that was that a very strong argument could be advanced that First Nations people were merely occupiers of the land and couldn't legally lay claim as owners. The chance of a Court ruling against First Nations would set them back to square one and bring into question every treaty ever signed.
If that may be the case,perhaps it's time to launch that law suit.