Bill Gallagher
@ResourceRulers
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Strategist / Lawyer / Author
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Joined January 2013
.@Mainstreammedia RR predicted a 'hard NO!" This is a pivotal moment in the native empowerment movement - Coastal First Nations are clearly in the driver's seat - and that pipeline MoU will now have to look for a more accommodating destination - comes at 391 native legal wins
Coastal First Nations President Marilyn Slett outlines Carney's promise to local indigenous groups: "We heard directly from the PM that his government will seek our free, prior, and informed consent regarding any proposed projects in our territories."
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.@Mainstreammedia MAGA lawyers got it wrong: SCC specifically ruled treaties are not contracts also precedent that NRTA never consulted natives James Bay Cree derailed Separatist referendum thus could well happen again RR says the legal pool is pretty thin these days
Contrarianism is always in search of the next high, more outrageous than the last. Right-wing contrarianism in Canada has been leaping from issue to issue. It was probably inevitable that it would one day arrive at opposition to the country’s very existence.
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.@mainstreammedia BC native legal win #391 RR says not the 1st forestry licence transfer to be voided one wonders how BC could still be screwing this process up? Also complicating the lay of the land should a pipeline happen to materialize .. https://t.co/KhjkB2UdYw
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The B.C. Supreme Court has set aside a Forests Ministry decision to approve a forest licence transfer in Gitanyow First Nation territory, finding that the province had breached its duty to consult...
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.@cdnoilsands @politicalham "the discounts back and there's going to be trouble" RR predicted last week that the ride to gulf coast refineries would get more expensive for dilbit from AB Early days - a back-up product for the most part - for sure now https://t.co/xDDLp1ePch
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Canadian heavy oil prices are plunging this week following the upheaval in Venezuela over the weekend and the prospect of more Venezuelan oil imports to the United States.
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.@politicalham @cdnoilsands Bad news for oilsands well now the pressure is off those Gulf Coast refiners RR predicts crude supply no longer essential from AB Discount will reassert itself - carbon capture a pipe dream - same for that MoU bitumen pipeline - lower pump prices!
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.@Mainstreammedia US media shows our MSM up! When you add up all the pretendian authors / lawyers / artists / publishers & promotors / pushing grievance narratives (forget business reporting) its no wonder folks are in the dark on access to resources RR says everybody take a bow
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.@Mainstreammedia UNDRIP / Aboriginal Title These declarations are just the icing on the cake for the native empowerment movement: constitutional rights / treaties / land claim settlements / legal wins / political clout / is what serves-up a 'de facto' veto RR read a book folks
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.@Mainstreammedia David Frum - access to resources RR is legally & factually bulletproof on the rise of native empowerment - now peaking at 390 legal wins - like when Custer was wiped out it's disbelief & denial - my 3rd book "Resource Requiem" pending https://t.co/unHK9ompNX
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.@garymasonglobe RR's prediction mid-2026 About the time when Carney / MPO square-off with AFN over access to resources - a national ruckus of the highest order - RR predicts natives will have 400 legal wins - this remains the biggest underreported MSM story of the decade
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.@mainstreammedia the hits keep coming on road to resources as Washington State tribe win D2C in Canada in spite of: international boundary / dams / mines / pollution / Doukabors / even declared extinct by BC officials - major implications Canada-wide! https://t.co/Qx6Nra3tgh
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.@Mainstreammedia access to justice legal win #390 For all those claimants who've been told to pound sand b/c they's not believed to be native enough in terms of identity: [69] Knowledge of a credible but unproven claim suffices to trigger a duty to consult and accommodate
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.@Mainstreammedia [66] the potential rights embedded in a claim are constitutionally protected even where there is ground for doubt about whether the group asserting them is an Aboriginal people of Canada and this precondition for constitutional protection has not been proven.
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.@mainstreammedia RR goes on the record as the only strategist that tracks the native empowerment movement & its record breaking legal win streak says: at 388 rulings in the resources sector natives don't need to win AT or UNDRIP cases - they already have all the bases covered!
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.@mainstreammedia RR makes a major prediction: That PMO will request the SCC to conduct a reference case for a ruling to settle the question of compatibility of AT & Fee Simple ownership (asap) IMO the PM's major projects initiative is at serious risk until the air is cleared
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.@Mainstreammedia #aboriginal #title update followers will remember that I said NB was litigating an AT case way ahead of BC - here is that decision - which I predict is the way things will turnout nation-wide I warned of this outcome to NB chiefs!!! https://t.co/ESJM3QAWIZ
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The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has narrowed the scope of a title claim made by the Wolastoqey Nation. Private land belonging to three large forestry companies are now excluded from any ownership...
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.@Mainstreammedia political interference #388 [250] The legal consequence of discontinuing this proceeding prior to a decision would be to silence the Court. Legislating an end to litigation is extraordinary. RR says read the Epilogue folks
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.@Mainstreammedia Win #388 [155] then send his lawyers into Court in November to make a technical argument that CIA s 2(4) is not protection for Treaty rights. Reconciliation demands that governments do better than this.
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.@Mainstreammedia excerpt #388 [155] Alberta’s argument is not just wrong, it is dishonourable. The Justice Minister cannot stand in the Legislative Assembly in May citing CIA s 2(4) as a protection for Treaty rights and then send his lawyers into Court in November ...
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.@Mainstreammedia Native legal win #388 Alberta Treaty rights as impacted by Separation Referendum RR says ruling has incredible political backstory - D Smith tried to shut it down - judge fired back - start at Part 8 - RR former Treaty negotiator! https://t.co/PyU9Yh6jou
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.@mainstreammedia Alberta ruling Treaty rights #388 This legal beagle / referendum / separation nonsense has inadvertently delivered a landmark ruling on Treaty empowerment that RR predicts will burn like a prairie-fire across western sedimentary basin! https://t.co/xejiS9pOuA
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An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introduced...
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