Oil makes up a large portion of our current account surplus, nobody is paying us to build ourselves windmills.
Crazy thought, why don't the people all collectively pay a portion of what they make, and they use that money to build infrastructure and energy projects? We can call it takes, because it takes all of us to fund. Yeah...
Opposing the bills in court is fine, but expecting $100,000,000 in "damages" for the bills simply passing is absurd and unsupportable.
This is how bringing a lawsuit works. You need to quantify the "harm" and the amount here is to signify the scale of the harm to the court, not to seek this amount. The lawsuit uses this 100 million amount because of precedent, according to the article, which means similar cases specified similar amounts.
However what they're asking for is the injunction, not damages; there's unlikely to be any amount paid. Even there was an awarded amount this would be like a highball offer to start a haggling process, not a final selling price.
The First Nations are asking court to strike down the laws, require the federal and provincial governments to make a series of declarations about how they were passed without respect to First Nations or the constitution, and pay $100 million in damages to the communities.
Abolish the Indian act. And stop acting like indigenous people know something others don't about managing lands.
Humans are garbage it doesn't matter what fuckin family we belong to.
Oil makes up a large portion of our current account surplus, nobody is paying us to build ourselves windmills.
Crazy thought, why don't the people all collectively pay a portion of what they make, and they use that money to build infrastructure and energy projects? We can call it takes, because it takes all of us to fund. Yeah...