9 First Nations ask court to strike down federal, Ontario bills allowing infrastructure fast-tracking
9 First Nations ask court to strike down federal, Ontario bills allowing infrastructure fast-tracking
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Opposing the bills in court is fine, but expecting $100,000,000 in "damages" for the bills simply passing is absurd and unsupportable.
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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.
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Go figure, Indigenous peoples are just as greedy as any other group when it comes to things like money. All too human...
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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.
Here's an example where they did.
People all over the world did these things before capitalism and colonization ruined the old ways. Were not special man, just people.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.