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Nice Little Piece of Heaven Y’Got There, Don’t Mind If We Do – HotAir

March 9, 2026
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Well, the indigenous peoples’ rampage across British Columbia’s private property rights is becoming everyone’s problem, it seems. What began with the itinerant fisherfolk of the Cowichan tribe casting a longing eye on some riverfront property where their ancestors would spend a couple of weeks in the summer has burst straight into downtown Vancouver, BC.





Unsurprisingly, and most assuredly by design, most people in the Vancouver area haven’t heard a peep about it, and those who have haven’t heard much.

I say ‘by design’ because the Canadian government, always a model of transparency and openness, signed a sweeping ‘landmark’ three-part agreement with the 1,500-member Musqueam tribe in mid-February, which was ‘quietly’ announced.

So quietly, no one heard about it, and people are only just finding out about it weeks later. They’re also finding that the lack of details is ominous, as the government’s announcement includes mention of ‘aboriginal title.’ They have essentially recognized the Musqueam’s ‘aboriginal rights’ to the great  Vancouver metropolitan area.

Oh, boy.

The federal government has signed three “landmark agreements” with the Musqueam Indian Band formally recognizing Aboriginal rights — including Aboriginal title — across its “traditional territory” in Metro Vancouver and surrounding areas.

The full details have not yet been disclosed.

The agreement, quietly announced in February, marks what Ottawa calls “reconciliation in action” and a “true nation-to-nation partnership,” yet the public remains in the dark on most specifics.

The government has released no full texts, no detailed territorial maps, and no breakdowns of how its so-called “gradual implementation” will unfold or what financial resources will support it beyond the fisheries component.

What is known at this time is that the Musqueam’s “traditional territory” encompasses most of Metro Vancouver and surrounding coastal areas where the First Nation has long asserted rights tied to its history in the region.

The agreements focus on control over fisheries, marine planning, and emergency response.

In its announcement, the federal government noted the new agreement with the Musqueum “honours Canada’s commitments to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” thereby “exemplify(ing) reconciliation in action.”





A quick primer on what ‘aboriginal title’ means in Canada. Once it’s court-certified, if someone holds it over your fee title, you’re screwed. 

It is considered the senior title, and while both can ‘co-exist’ at the same time, it will always take precedence, as the people in Richmond quickly found out as soon as the Cowichan Tribal decision on their now-basically-worthless property came down. They cannot sell without tribal permission, banks are denying refinancing loans and business loans based on the property now being held by a First Nations entity. They want nothing to do with dealing with the tribes.

For some pretty generic but scary woke terminology mixed with Indian words.

So, how much of Vancouver are we talking?

Thanks to GlobalTrvlr, I have a map. It’s quite a chunk.

Damn near all of it, in fact.

And while dewy-eyed people who still believe in social justice, virtue-signalling, and Indian tribal promises of ‘we have no intentions of acting on any of this‘ are poo-pooing the claims about property rights, again, they have a prime example due north of them in Richmond, where this very thing is ongoing.





And that tribe is suing for even more land, even as other tribes are crying ‘encroachment’ against their own claims.

It’s a grab the land scrum.

…The federal government and the Province of British Columbia announced their intent to appeal shortly after the August 7, 2025, decision, contesting aspects such as the coexistence of Aboriginal title with fee simple private property rights and the invalidation of certain Crown grants.

The Cowichan Tribes are also appealing, seeking recognition of a larger portion of their claimed territory beyond the approximately 40% granted by the court. Additionally, neighboring First Nations, including the Musqueam Indian Band and Tsawwassen First Nation, have filed appeals, arguing the decision impacts their own territorial claims.

Those benevolent BC First Nations tribes aren’t above booting old folks out of trailers they’ve lived in for almost forty years, either, if it suits their needs and is on land they already own. God forbid you tried to move an Indian Village – the Mounties would be there in a heartbeat.

But a trailer park full of eighty-year-old white folks with nowhere else to go?

Pack yer bags, Granny.

People living in a trailer park in the Comox Valley say they’re being evicted unfairly by the K’omoks First Nation.

The First Nation has given notice that residents at the Queneesh Mobile Home park have less than two years to move off the property.

Many considered them their forever homes.

…“There’s no place to move our trailers to on the Island. We are stuck. We have put our life savings into this trailer, and now we have to leave with nothing. That is ludicrous,” said Kathy Jenkins, a park resident of 34 years.

…There are 37 trailers here, housing more than 100 people.

Some still hold mortgages, one woman still owes $80,000 on hers, and at least one trailer was listed for sale before the nation warned in October 2025 that the park’s initial 50-year lease might not be renewed.

“When I took possession of my property, I was not made aware of any kind of lease or anything like that,” said Cropley. When he asked the group of neighbours around him, they agreed they too were in the dark about a lease.

“We came here for our forever home, and I’m sad,” said Valerie Bell, who said her 87-year-old husband now has to dismantle the reinforced metal roof he built on their home.





This lady was much luckier than the poor folks who invested their life savings at a trailer park they were never told was leased from the natives.

…Owning a leasehold property is very risky.

First Nations have a lucrative gig going. Now they see a golden opportunity to increase the revenue stream, handed to them on a silver platter by Canadian politicians and their woke courts.

Currently, being in ‘negotiations’ is the ‘in’ thing to do for a tribe, as no one wants to be the group that misses out.





With the situation in Vancouver and the government’s shady handling of it, speculation is running rampant about what BC Premier David Eby knew regarding what the feds agreed to give away.

The bald-faced liar who told reporters he hadn’t heard about it. As everyone found out later, guess who sat in the front row when all the signing happened? 

Yeah.

DIS GUY

Yeah. 

The Liberal government is refusing to publicly release an agreement with the Musqueam Indian Band that recognizes Aboriginal title over a vast area of British Columbia, including Metro Vancouver and surrounding areas, potentially affecting nearly two million people.

Buried in a seemingly mundane fisheries announcement put out on February 20th, the acknowledgement could radically undermine property rights in one of Canada’s largest and most populated metropolitan regions.

So you know, there’s nothing good in it for Canadians – the taxpaying, property owning kind.

It’s gonna be something when the tribes own and are running the whole province.


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