and, this is just...

It’s an issue that must be resolved within Indigenous communities, but governments are grappling with it, too, especially as both B.C. and Ottawa are preparing to enact the principles of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which stipulates that they must give consent to industrial development on their traditional territories. By endorsing the declaration, the federal government has said it will aim to secure Indigenous consent on projects but does not guarantee it.

*sigh*

the obligation to seek consent does not come from the united nations, and is not recent. it comes from the canadian supreme court, and is now many decades old established practice in canada. the federal government is already obligated by well established case law to seek consent....

in fact, the united nations declaration is largely built on existing canadian case law, rather than the other way around.

gotta love the fucking globe and mail. ugh.