‘Guidance Documents’ for Administering Race Based Law’

These are just some of the ‘Guidance Documents’ produced by both the federal and provincial governments for the purpose of navigating Race Based Law when attempting economic development in Canada (in this particular case, British Columbia):

‘Guide to Involving Proponents when ‘Consulting’ ‘First Nations’ (BC MARR 2014)
Jurisdiction: Provincial (BC MARR)
“Provides operational guidance to provincial decision makers and staff with respect to the role of proponents in consultation. To be used in conjunction with the ‘Updated Procedures for Meeting Legal Obligations When Consulting ‘First Nations’.”

‘Guide to Involving Proponents when Consulting ‘First Nations’ in the Environmental Assessment Process’ (BC EAO 2013)
Jurisdiction: Provincial (BC EAO)
“Clarifies the roles and responsibilities of the provincial Crown and proponents in ‘First Nation’ consultation throughout an environmental assessment process.”

‘Updated Procedures for Meeting Legal Obligations when Consulting ‘First Nations’ (Province of BC 2010)
Jurisdiction: Provincial (BC)
“Outlines the provincial government’s procedures for meeting its legal obligations to consult ‘First Nations’ on proposed land resource decisions.”

‘Proponent Guide for Providing ‘First Nation’ Consultation Information: Non-Treaty ‘First Nations’ (BC EAO 2010)
Jurisdiction: Provincial (BC EAO)
“Provides guidance to proponents on meeting ‘consultation expectations’ which relate to the potential impacts of the proposed project on ‘aboriginal rights’, including {unproven and/or surrendered} ‘title’.”

‘Proponent Guide for Providing Treaty ‘Nation’ Consultation Information: Treaty ‘Nations’ (BC EAO 2010)
Jurisdiction: Provincial (BC EAO)
“Provides guidance to proponents on meeting consultation expectations which relate to the potential impacts of a proposed project on ‘treaty rights’ and interests which arise under a treaty between the ‘First Nation’, the Province and Canada.”

‘Aboriginal ‘Consultation and Accommodation’: Updated Guidelines for Federal Officials to Fulfill the ‘Duty to Consult’ (AANDC 2011)
Jurisdiction: Federal (AANDC)
“Provide step-by-step direction on the government-wide responsibility of departments and agencies to fulfill the ‘duty to consult’.”

‘Considering Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Assessments Conducted under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012’ (CEA Agency 2015a)
Jurisdiction: Federal (CEA Agency)
“Provides general guidance on the collection, consideration, and integration of aboriginal ‘traditional knowledge’ into environmental assessments.”
{“Traditional knowledge”? See below…
And all of this is only for the ‘APPLICATION FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATE’! Just imagine how much more bureaucracy has been, and is being, created to administer the many other facets of Segregation and Race Based Law…}

https://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/epic/documents/p412/d40387/1463004628277_qBRlXzmRp87jNVXg2HDSPwWk2y1HR5F0m1JDN5VbLh2hXGdptpyn!910875104!1463002673302.pdf
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So, what exactly is ‘traditional knowledge’?:
“Bill Erasmus, the Grand Chief of the Dene Nation…maintained that traditional knowledge should be called “Dene science”, but when we asked how its methodology compared with modern research, he gave the following comments:

“I call it Dene science because in the literature {?}, it is regarded as a science… For example, we have been trying to explain…how the mind of the people works…

“The scientific process we talk about is very complex. It takes a lot to describe… It is a science. There’s a method to the way people work…

“We’ve managed to survive all these years… This is how society works…”

{The edits actually make it more ‘intelligible’…}

Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard (National Post)

Widdowson and Howard:

“Two underlying assumptions can be discerned about the nature of traditional knowledge vis-a-vis science. The first is that the existence of traditional knowledge is dependent upon the undefined qualities of the person who allegedly holds it. All that is explained is that is is impossible for certain people…to have this “knowledge”. Secondly, traditional knowledge has a “world view” that is rooted in native spirituality.

“Unlike physical science, ‘traditional knowledge’ assumes that all objects in the universe are governed by spiritual forces that cannot be seen by a ‘white’ man…
This makes it incompatible with modern research, since scientific methodology attempts to verify hypotheses by using evidence that is open to evaluation.

“Scientific understanding does not rely on the alleged “spiritual qualities” of a scientist, or processes that are visible only to people of a certain racial ancestry. ‘Postmodern’ rhetoric like “cultural context” and “cyclical thinking“, however, acts to mystify the true character of traditional knowledge, preventing the implications of its use in public policy from being understood.”

–‘Education: Honouring the Ignorance of Our Ancestors’,
Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard, “Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry” (2008),
p. 191-214

http://www.amazon.ca/Disrobing-Aboriginal-Industry-Indigenous-Preservation/dp/0773534210
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“…when the two worked advising the Northwest Territories government in the 1990s. The territory had incorporated into official policy something called ‘traditional knowledge’, requiring departments to include the spiritual folklore of Inuit and ‘First Nations’ culture in decision-making about resource management — say, approving mines or setting hunting quotas.

“Appalled at the melding of supernatural beliefs with government policy, the two published an essay in the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s journal, ‘Policy Options’, arguing that traditional knowledge made bad policy; its amorphous nature meant it

“can be used to justify any enterprise, including the over-exploitation of resources.”

“For this, Ms. Widdowson was suspended from her government job.

“In a letter appealing to the deputy minister of the department, she reasoned:

“Do you think that I should integrate the [native myth] idea that wolves create caribou — and that animals ‘present themselves’ to be killed — with my current understanding of evolutionary biology? Should the department encourage renewable resource officers to throw beaver fetuses into lakes so that they can be ‘reborn’? This is exactly what the traditional knowledge policy is directing employees to do.”

“Her contract was not renewed…”

–‘Leftist couple’s stance on aboriginals leaves them in the cold’,
Kevin Libin, National Post, October 31, 2008

http://firewitchrising.blogspot.ca/2008/11/here-comes-another-anti-indian.html
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