Chief Fox
Yesterday,
our small group of fifty delivered a notice to Business Canada. CN had
obtained an injunction on Monday, the day previous to the railway
blockade. CN only delivered that notice to us later on yesterday. I got a
copy only after a CN Cop picked up a copy from the ground and handed it
to me. We had already started to leave the area. Although the
injunction is not legal, we left the blockade after we made our point.
The point is clear, we can shut down the economy.
In
2007, I won a decision against an injunction that was sought by CN.
This time their lawyers did not provide notice to us and went to court
obtaining the injunction without giving us notice of the injunction or a
chance to appear. CN's title comes from the government but the
government gets their title from the treaty. When Harper passed the Bill
C45 legislation, he nullified the title of CN. Only the treaty
guarantees immigrants rights in our lands. In 2007, I went to court and
asked Judge Kennedy, how can you give CN an injunctiion against us being
on our own land, Kennedy said, CN has title, I asked where did they get
title, Kennedy said from Government, so I asked, where did the
Government get their title. He went silent and asked, do you have
documentation. Of course we did. We gave him a huge amount of
documentation.
The
doctrine of discovery cannot be upheld in court. We are batting nearly
100% of the land court cases. We win because all the immigrant rights
come from Treaty. If the treaties are nullified by Harper legislation,
CN, CPR, Enbridge, TransCanada and all immigrant right to access in our
lands are endangered.
We
can stop all trains in Canada if we had to. If we are forced to do
this, our slogan will be Not one toothpick. Jody Wilson Raybould is
quoted in the Globe and Mail against blockades. The British Columbia
First Nations want Treaty Negotiations and lumber is 50% of the economy
of British Columbia but if bloodshed occurs in Canada, Not One Toothpick
will be sold to the Americans. There is 2 billion dollars worth of
trade a day between Canada and United States. We do not want to be on
blockades, we are forced to be there by the Harper legislation.
We
need to contact the Americans. They are not our enemy, they can dictate
to Harper. The economy of Canada is tied to the United States.
On
Tuesday January 22nd and Wednesday 23rd, you will be in Winnipeg with
the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs summit. We want a resolution authorizing
action on the Treaties. If the immigrants who get all their rights from
Treaty are jeopardized by the legislation by Harper, we will be in
legal position to take action to stop all railway lines.
The
three prairie provinces are the most powerful areas for protest by
First Nations. The Biggest Railway Lines and Pipelines are all in
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We have the ability to bring down
the Canadian economy and Americans need to wake up to Harper and his
dangerous policies.
We
delivered the notice yesterday by blocking CN. IF CN tries to sue us or
continue to confront us, they will lose all rights to cross our lands.
We can stop them if we had to. We don't want to but we maybe forced into
this. A resolution at the Summit by AMC next week is needed to legalize
a response by the Treaty Nations.
We
are there if the Chiefs want action. According to the attached
documentation. CN probably lost ten million dollars yesterday. They will
need a few days to catch up to the delays from yesterday. IF they sue
us, they should also sue Harper because it is the Harper legislation
that caused this. I will abide by the injunction for now but I will
appeal the injuction. The Judge never allowed us to appear and we will
take him to task for his decision. He has no clue about his legal
obligations to the treaty rights of immigrants in our lands. We will
revoke those immigrants access rights if we have to and as the judge
did, we will do so without notice to the immigrants. We do need to be
reasonable but Harper is stupid if he thinks that this is over.
The
immigrant court already put their injunction in place without our
input. Next week, the Chiefs have a chance to put in place a resolution
authorizing blockades if Harper continues to unilaterally change the
conditions of treaty without our input. The hell with providing them
notice, if they feel they have the right to impose their laws upon us
without our input. IF CN didn't get that message yesterday, they will if
they continue to ignore the conditions of treaty.
Terrance Nelson
How Dangerous is the situation in Canada?
Written by Terrance Nelson,
March 2012
“One thing that police and the army know is that indigenous people
don’t have any real supply of guns. The supply of guns is controlled but what
the authorities don’t understand is that every one of the 633 reservations in
Canada has old cars. In Winnipeg thousands of cars were being stolen every
month, our indigenous youth who make up to 95% of the inmates in jail, were in
criminal “training schools” on how to steal cars. If ever there was a military
showdown between Indigenous people and the Canadian army, the first target
would be the railway lines and burning cars would be on every railway line in
Canada”
In 1990 during the Oka Crisis, four thousand Canadian troops
faced about 30 Mohawks in a tense situation where one police officer had
already died. The difference between twenty years ago and today is we
understand economics a lot better than we did twenty years ago. Two Ojibway
communities in northern Ontario blocked railway lines in support of the
Mohawks. Economics not military is what makes the situation in Canada
dangerous. The American economy could be blindsided by events north of their
border rather than by events in other parts of the world.
The National Day of Action on June 29th 2007,
exposed the fact that a month long national stoppage of railway traffic in
Canada would cripple not only the economy of Canada it would also destroy the
economy of the United States. The 2008 economic meltdown shows how vulnerable
the U.S. economy is today. The difference between a political action organized
by the Chiefs in Canada on the 2007 National Day of Action and a covert
operation by First Nation individuals is like night and day. A covert operation
involving burning cars on every railway line would almost be impossible to stop
despite all the Canadian military and police being alerted to the potential.
The Canadian Security and Intelligence Services and the CIA
are well aware of the potential for violence in Canada and are monitoring
indigenous people in Canada more and more. A recent novel entitled “Uprising”
by former Lieutenant Colonel Bland explores the potential for indigenous
violence. Bland is a trained military person who does not understand indigenous
people and how warrior societies function as individuals without an army type
hierarchy. Bland’s book neglects to exam economic
consequences. Indigenous people in Canada aren’t in caves in Afghanistan, they
are here in the heart of the North American economy.
In the last decade, the 34 million people in Canada have
purchased over 2 trillion dollars worth of American exports. In those ten
years, Canada made over $500 billion in trade surpluses with United States. In
that decade, Canada sold Americans $2.5 trillion dollars worth of exports. Canada
pumps 2.5 million barrels of oil per day to the States and under the North
American Free Trade Agreement, the U.S. has “security
of energy exports”. Less known than oil coming from Canada is the entire
eastern U.S. seaboard is powered up by electricity generated in northern Quebec
and Ontario.
Cables released under the Wiki leaks show the United States
Embassy in Ottawa raised concerns with Washington regarding indigenous people
in Canada, “as long as Canada lacks a
clear definition of aboriginal rights or a uniform model for negotiations,
effective mechanisms to resolve aboriginal grievances in a timely manner will
remain elusive”.
Eighty-seven percent of all Canadian exports flow to the
United States and seventy-two percent of all foreign investment in Canada comes
from the United States. Canadian and American economies are intertwined, what
affects one, affects the other.
On August 18th 1999, Steven Leslie Pound, an
employee of Canadian National Railways, provided an Affidavit to the Court of
Queen’s Bench testifying to the negative effect that a railway blockade would
have on Canadian National Railway. At paragraph 17 of that Affidavit he stated
“I am advised by Dennis Cousineau from CN’s Office of
Economics and Financial Planning, and do verily believe, that the average
negative daily impact on CN’s revenue from a cessation of train operations in
and across Manitoba would be approximately $5.6 million”
That was thirteen years ago, but even then, negative daily
impact would have been $5.6 million, 5.6 million dollars a day on CN's revenue
but much more impact on all the business that depend on CN. That doesn't include
Canadian Pacific Railways, or the impact on other transportation services, this
was the impact in Manitoba alone, not a national railway stoppage.
At paragraph 18, he expands on who would be affected.
“A cessation of train operation in Manitoba would also
have a significant impact on CN’s customers and others. The main customers in
Manitoba affected by interrupted rail service include Dominion Malt,
PetroCanada, Shell Canada, Cargill Grain, Agpro Grain, Crown Packaging, Allied,
United Grain Growers, Pouwel and Gardenwine. Customers who would be affected by
an interference with time sensitive intermodal shipments include TransWestern,
Western Canada Express and Clark. A disruption in rail service would affect
grain shipments to various ocean ports, including Churchill and Thunder Bay,
impacting on the business operations of Saskatchewan Pool, UGG, Cargill,
Paterson, Agpro, amongst others, and could result in a shutdown of elevators in
Thunder Bay and Churchill”
In 1990 during the Oka crisis, Ojibway First Nations in
Ontario, Pic Mobert and Pays Plat First Nations supporting Mohawks blockaded
railway lines. The potential for a North American economic meltdown if Mohawks
were killed was very real. Americans are aware of the potential. On January 1st
1994 the Mayan uprising in Chiapas Mexico caused international investors to
begin pulling $8 billion dollars from stocks of American companies doing
business in Mexico. President Clinton was forced to lend Mexico $30 billion as
the American dollar tumbled in value.
The United States economy is much weaker today than it was
in 1994. The American ability to respond to financial crisis is far different
today than it was in 1994 and a conflict in Canada would have much more impact
to the American economy than the 1994 Chiapas uprising. The difference between
trade with Canada in 2012 compared to the 1994 trade between Mexico and the
United States is not even comparable. The economic ties with Canada makes it a
much bigger risk for the United States.
In 1994, the American economy was strong, the U.S. federal
debt was under five trillion dollars, today U.S. federal debt is over fourteen
trillion dollars. The 2008 economic meltdown left America in a situation where
they may not be able to respond as effectively to another severe economic jolt.
Americans can no longer just print more money or borrow their way out of the
next financial meltdown.
Something as significant as conflict in Canada would
blindside the Americans. There are numerous studies, including the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Report, and
Senate of Canada papers that warn of the potential for violence in Canada. Much
of these documents gather dust while the Government in Canada ignores solutions.
Peaceful Co-existence, a Treaty right of both whites and
natives
“ it is the desire of Her Majesty… to obtain the consent thereto of her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract,
and to
make a treaty and arrangement with them so that there may be peace and good
will between them and Her Majesty…” “And the undersigned Chiefs do hereby bind
and pledge themselves and their people strictly to observe this treaty and to
maintain perpetual peace between themselves and Her Majesty’s white subjects,
and not to interfere with the property or in any way molest the persons of Her
Majesty’s white or other subjects”
Not to interfere
with the property… of Her Majesty’s white subjects is a treaty right granted by indigenous
people to the people who immigrated to Canada. It is a treaty right that is
contingent upon Her Majesty fulfilling the conditions of treaty.
CN's and
CPR’s title to the land railway tracks run on comes from the Canadian
government, whose right to grant deeds and titles within indigenous territories
comes from treaties. When Canada fundamentally breaches the treaty conditions,
titles and deeds granted by Canada is jeopardized. Even the Supreme Court of
Canada decided that indigenous people have inherent rights. “Aboriginal title is a legal right derived from the
historic occupation of Tribal lands by Native people. It is not something that
was given to native people by some government, by Royal Proclamation, or by the
signing of a treaty” Justice Dickinson, Supreme Court of Canada.
The government of Canada has no intention of returning to
the bargaining table as long as Indigenous people continue to allow Canada to
do whatever it pleases with treaties. As long as Canada can continue to export
natural resource wealth to the Americans without any payment to the indigenous
people, Canada will not negotiate.
The Tarsands of Alberta contain 1.4 trillion barrels of oil
and forty percent of that oil is recoverable under present day technology. At
one hundred dollars per barrel, that forty percent is approximately $60
trillion worth of recoverable oil. There are over 60 metals and minerals mined
in Canada, all done with little or no payment to indigenous people.
The lifestyle of
every Canadian is subsidized by the sale of natural resource wealth and as
indigenous people are kept impoverished at the 72nd of the United
Nations Living Index. There will be no solutions implemented until a crisis is
reached.
Not only are the railway lines vulnerable to closure by covert operation but the oil pipelines now sending 2.5 million barrels of oil per day to the United States would be a target if indigenous people and the government of Canada were in military conflict. Pumping stations like the Gretna Depot in southern Manitoba would be vulnerable as it pumps over one million barrels of oil per day to Midwestern United States. Under its own safety procedures Enbridge and TransCanada pipelines shut down after three days of limited access.
Canadian Crude Oil Imports: Increasing Importance To The United States
09/29/2010 01:15PM
U.S. consumers are sometimes surprised to learn that our
single largest foreign source of crude oil is Canada,
which surpassed Saudi Arabia as the leading supplier to the United States in
2004 and has continued to hold that position. Since 1990, total U.S. crude oil
imports from Canada have increased by 1.3 million barrels per day, accounting
for 40 percent of the 3.1 million barrel per day growth in total crude oil
imports since that date. Over the last decade alone, the share of U.S. crude
oil imports coming from Canada has increased from 13 percent to 22 percent.
From January through June 2010, 2.0 million barrels per day of Canadian crude oil were imported into the United States, of which 1.2 million barrels per day went into the Midwest. According to the Canadian National Energy Board, almost half of the crude oil exported to the United States was either synthetic crude or blended bitumen from the Alberta oil sands. Bitumen, a heavy, viscous type of hydrocarbon extracted from the oil sands, is blended with lighter hydrocarbons to allow it to flow through pipelines. It then may be upgraded into a relatively light, sweet synthetic crude oil that can be used by most refineries.
The recent shutdown of two pipelines bringing Canadian crude oil to the U.S. demonstrated the growing importance of these imports. On September 9, the Enbridge Lakehead System had to shut down its Line 6A pipeline due to a crude oil leak in Romeoville, Illinois. This incident followed the discovery of another leak and a shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 6B late in July. Line 6A is a major source of light synthetic, heavy, and medium Canadian crude oils for seven refineries in the Midwest and Pennsylvania, and many of the affected refineries have limited alternate supply sources. Fortunately for Midwest consumers, Enbridge was able to restart Line 6A on September 17 and Line 6B on September 27.
While numerous factors may have been in play, markets apparently reacted to the September 9 outage of Line 6A, as prices for benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and Midwest gasoline rose discernibly until it became apparent that the line would be returned to service quickly. WTI prices rose by $3 per barrel in conjunction with the outage despite very high inventory levels at the Cushing, OK hub. Wholesale spot conventional gasoline prices in Chicago rose by 25 cents from September 9 to 13, and EIA’s weekly retail gasoline survey reported on September 13 that Midwest regular gasoline had risen by over 10 centsper gallon during the week, while the national average was up just 4 cents per gallon during the same period.
Prices returned to prior levels after the restart of Line 6A and the price impact of this incident was mitigated by the fact that the outage occurred as gasoline demand began showing seasonal declines and refineries were going into their planned autumn maintenance schedules with the available buffer of high crude oil and refined product stocks.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
From January through June 2010, 2.0 million barrels per day of Canadian crude oil were imported into the United States, of which 1.2 million barrels per day went into the Midwest. According to the Canadian National Energy Board, almost half of the crude oil exported to the United States was either synthetic crude or blended bitumen from the Alberta oil sands. Bitumen, a heavy, viscous type of hydrocarbon extracted from the oil sands, is blended with lighter hydrocarbons to allow it to flow through pipelines. It then may be upgraded into a relatively light, sweet synthetic crude oil that can be used by most refineries.
The recent shutdown of two pipelines bringing Canadian crude oil to the U.S. demonstrated the growing importance of these imports. On September 9, the Enbridge Lakehead System had to shut down its Line 6A pipeline due to a crude oil leak in Romeoville, Illinois. This incident followed the discovery of another leak and a shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 6B late in July. Line 6A is a major source of light synthetic, heavy, and medium Canadian crude oils for seven refineries in the Midwest and Pennsylvania, and many of the affected refineries have limited alternate supply sources. Fortunately for Midwest consumers, Enbridge was able to restart Line 6A on September 17 and Line 6B on September 27.
While numerous factors may have been in play, markets apparently reacted to the September 9 outage of Line 6A, as prices for benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and Midwest gasoline rose discernibly until it became apparent that the line would be returned to service quickly. WTI prices rose by $3 per barrel in conjunction with the outage despite very high inventory levels at the Cushing, OK hub. Wholesale spot conventional gasoline prices in Chicago rose by 25 cents from September 9 to 13, and EIA’s weekly retail gasoline survey reported on September 13 that Midwest regular gasoline had risen by over 10 centsper gallon during the week, while the national average was up just 4 cents per gallon during the same period.
Prices returned to prior levels after the restart of Line 6A and the price impact of this incident was mitigated by the fact that the outage occurred as gasoline demand began showing seasonal declines and refineries were going into their planned autumn maintenance schedules with the available buffer of high crude oil and refined product stocks.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
One of the biggest problems that United States has is that
they take Canada for granted. They let Canada tell them that there is no
problem in Canada.
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I'm sharing this post on my fb page. hope you get some new readers. I love theline "Not one toothpick will pass." and the stolen cars blocking railway lines across Canada.
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