More RACE BASED LAW. Here we have an ‘exception’ being made to democratic electoral boundaries in order to privilege a tiny Aboriginal Band. Electoral districts are supposed to be relatively equal in the number of voters – but not if they’re Aboriginal:
“An independent commission on the Yukon’s electoral boundaries says a northern ‘Indigenous’ electoral district should remain its own separate riding. The Yukon Electoral District Boundaries Commission released a final report last week recommending the Vuntut Gwitchin riding in Northern Yukon should not be merged with the Klondike riding.
“The Vuntut Gwitchin riding encompasses the Vuntut Gwitchin ‘First Nation’ (VG‘FN’), located in Old Crow, the territory’s only fly-in community. It has the smallest electoral population in Canada with 188 voters.
“The nearest hub to Old Crow is Dawson City, some 400 kilometres south in the Klondike riding. An interim report by the commission earlier this spring recommended merging the two ridings into one in order to better balance the vote.
“The final report was tabled in the legislative assembly last week. Its recommendations are contained in the “Electoral District Boundaries Act”, which was tabled earlier this week.
“VG‘FN’ said in a statement Friday that it applauded the report’s recommendation.
“VG‘FN’ is pleased to see the maintenance of the Vuntut Gwitchin electoral district in the Electoral District Boundaries Act tabled in the Yukon Legislative Assembly earlier this week”,
it said.
‘Commission changes recommendation’
“Despite a growing population, especially in Whitehorse, Yukon’s electoral boundaries haven’t changed since 2008. There are currently 19 electoral districts in the territory, 11 of which are in Whitehorse and eight are in rural communities.
“The commission’s interim report proposed reducing the eight rural ridings to six, as well as adding two new ridings in Whitehorse’s growing Whistlebend neighborhood, increasing the number there from 11 to 13.
“VG‘FN’ said in the statement the commission’s interim suggestion to merge the Vuntut Gwitchin and Klondike ridings “raised significant concerns”.
…
“In its final report, the commission noted there was significant public pushback to its suggestion.
“It said written submissions from people in Old Crow were “powerful and persuasive” and that many argued the riding is unique because of its remoteness, strong ‘First Nation’s identity and ‘connection to the land’.
{‘The Myth of Aboriginal Environmental Stewardship’
“Nothing is so pernicious as the profoundly-racist notion that somehow ‘indigenous peoples’ are genetically endowed with a special relationship, a spiritual kinship, with nature that makes them superior caretakers of the land … Why is so much weight afforded to what is essentially raw, localized experience? If you strip away its spiritual accoutrements, you’re left with little more than the same wisdom that allows a fisherman to gauge impending weather, or derive crude conclusions on the state of fish stocks… Surely, this is common sense. A person of any race or background can, at least in theory, be equally capable of protecting or destroying the environment.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-myth-of-aboriginal-environmental-stewardship/ }
“It also found Vuntut Gwitchin people were likely to be disenfranchised {?} if their electoral district was combined with the Klondike {That’s nonsense…}.
“After much discussion and consideration, the Commission changed its recommendation from the Interim Report and now recommends leaving Vuntut Gwitchin as its own electoral district”,
it said.
{A direct violation of democratic principles, and done for Racial reasons…}
“The commission’s final report ultimately suggests having 13 ridings in Whitehorse and eight in the rural communities.
‘Rural Yukon ‘needs a voice’ says NDP leader’
“Yukon NDP leader Kate White is taking the issue one step further. She put forward a private member’s bill to amend the “Election’s Act” last week.
“The amendment would guarantee eight rural MLA’s regardless of population growth in Whitehorse. It would also guarantee the Vuntut Gwitchin district as its own separate {Segregated} riding.
{The NDP, both federally and provincially, is now a backwards Segregationist Party…}
“This is just about looking towards the future to make sure that rural Yukon has a voice, and that Vuntut Gwitchin still has a voice”,
she told APTN.
“Vuntut Gwtichin MLA Annie Blake spoke about the issue during second reading of the bill last week.
“If the Vuntut Gwitchin was absorbed into a larger district, our specific priorities could be overlooked or overshadowed by larger, more populated areas. Issues central to our way of life, such as the protection of the Porcupine caribou herd, climate change impacts, and ‘Indigenous’ {Race} rights, require focused advocacy from a representative who understands and is directly accountable to the community”,
she said.
{This same argument could be used for ANY racial or ethnic community and goes fundamentally against democratic principles. Following her ‘logic’, the Yukon should have 1,000 electoral districts? How far backwards is Canada prepared to go? This is what happens when you let groups living in the past influence democratic policy.}
“White said the time was right to put the Bill forward as there’s no majority government.
“This is probably the most representation we’ll ever have to have this conversation about the ‘Elections Act’, because under majority governments, it doesn’t matter what anyone else enacts”,
she said.
“She noted it’s important there are “parameters” put in the ‘Elections Act’ as future boundary commissions “will be dealing with the same question”.
“What we’re trying to do is give direction in the future to say that rural Yukon cannot lose out, and Vuntut Gwitchin must remain a riding”,
she said.
“VG‘FN’ thanked White for her support in its statement, though it said it still had “serious concerns” with the territory’s ‘Elections Act’, especially regarding the lack of input from Yukon ‘Indigenous’ people when it was created.
{They’re not ‘Indigenous’. In fact, the Inuit are the descendants of murderous, genocidal conquerors from Siberia:
{‘The Genocide of the Dorset’
“The Thule (ancestors of today’s Inuit), originally from Siberia, were gradually expanding across the Arctic, displacing the older, aboriginal Dorset people. By roughly 1200 AD, the Dorset had vanished, killed off in warfare with the Thule… Inuit oral traditions tell of how the Dorset were a gentle people without bows and arrows, and thus easy to kill and drive away…”
https://endracebasedlaw.com/2019/08/05/the-genocide-of-the-dorset/ }
“The Vuntut Gwitchin ‘First Nation’ reiterates our call—and the call of the General Assembly of the Council of Yukon ‘First Nations’—for a comprehensive review of the ‘Elections Act’. It is time to revisit and transform elections in the Yukon in collaboration with Yukon ‘First Nations’,”
it said.
“White’s bill could be up for a final vote as early as next week. The new electoral boundaries act still requires legislative approval before it becomes law.”
–‘Vuntut Gwitchin riding boundaries should remain the same says commission report’,
Sara Connors, APTN News, Oct. 21, 2024
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/vuntut-gwitchin-riding-yukon-voting-electoral-boundaries/
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