<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13072"><span>FYI</span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13075"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13074"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13073"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13076"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13081"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13080">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Prime Minister/Premier Ministre <pm@pm.gc.ca>; Tom Mulcair <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>; Elizabeth May <elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca>; DionStéphane [NCR] <stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca>; "francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca" <francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc.ca>; "leona.aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca" <leona.aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca>; "minister.moe@ontario.ca" <minister.moe@ontario.ca>; "kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "Bernard.Valcourt@parl.gc.ca" <Bernard.Valcourt@parl.gc.ca>; "premier@ontario.ca" <premier@ontario.ca>; "reception@archottawa.ca" <reception@archottawa.ca>; Gg Info <info@gg.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 4, 2015 9:15 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Budget attacks Crown Consultations<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13077"><br><div id="yiv1256213365"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13079"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13078"><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236">Dear Ministers </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236">While my heart is still trying to process the overwhelming tragic events regarding Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I wake up today to find that the Federal government is using the Federal Budget to offload duty to Consult with First Nations onto mining companies!</div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://ricochet.media/en/464/federal-budget-could-mark-end-of-duty-to-consult-with-first-nations" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8608" class="yiv1256213365" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://ricochet.media/en/464/federal-budget-could-mark-end-of-duty-to-consult-with-first-nations</a></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">This news in my view is an act of TERRORISM on the hearts and minds of Indigenous people across Canada! There is no question about the timing of this. This government has no plausible deniability on this gross mental attack and judicial attack on the Indigenous peoples. <br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">At this time, when First Nations, Innu and Metis are struggling to digest the magnitude of the travesties that took place with the Truth and Reconciliation report, I fear the release of this news alone may be enough to push people beyond despair into suicide but on the same not it leaves us no choice but share this news in order to stop this outrageous travesty of justice to help defend our Treaty and Charter rights and the rights of our children for generations to come! <br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">Mr. Harper already corrupted the NEB process by giving elected officials veto power over NEB decisions. Now he is corrupting duty to consult by way of enshrining systematic bias! This is absolutely corrupt. It perverts justice, it perverts natural law and the objectivity of the process. All this is implemented without any reasonable consultation with First Nations! </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><h1 class="yiv1256213365" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);border-bottom-style:none;font-size:17.9200000762939px;padding-top:1em;margin-top:0px;margin-right:10px;margin-left:10px;text-align:center;line-height:26.8800029754639px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:sans-serif;margin-bottom:10px !important;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9266">Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act</h1><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:1em 10px 10px;font-size:14.0799989700317px;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:19.2000007629395px;" dir="ltr" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9267"> S.C. 2000, c. 24</div><ul class="yiv1256213365" style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;list-style-type:none;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px;margin-top:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9259"><li class="yiv1256213365" style="" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9258"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0.7em 10px 0.5em;text-indent:1.5em;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9257"><strong class="yiv1256213365" style=""><a rel="nofollow" id="yiv1256213365s-4." class="yiv1256213365" style="" href=""><span class="yiv1256213365" style="">4.</span></a></strong> (1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence who commits</div><ul class="yiv1256213365" style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;list-style-type:none;margin-top:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9269"><li class="yiv1256213365" style="" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9459"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0.7em 10px 0.5em 1.5em;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9458">(<em class="yiv1256213365" style="">a</em>) genocide;</div></li><li class="yiv1256213365" style="" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9461"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0.7em 10px 0.5em 1.5em;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9460">(<em class="yiv1256213365" style="">b</em>) a crime against humanity; or</div></li><li class="yiv1256213365" style="" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9274"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0.7em 10px 0.5em 1.5em;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9273">(<em class="yiv1256213365" style="">c</em>) a war crime.</div></li></ul></li><li class="yiv1256213365" style="" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9271"><h6 class="yiv1256213365" style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:0.85em;margin:1.2em 10px 0.7em;border-bottom-style:none;line-height:16.3199996948242px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:sans-serif;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9272"><span class="yiv1256213365" style="height:1px !important;width:1px !important;overflow:hidden;margin:0px !important;">Marginal note:</span>Conspiracy, attempt, etc.</h6><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0.7em 10px 0.5em;text-indent:1.5em;" dir="ltr" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9270">(1.1) Every person who conspires or attempts to commit, is an accessory after the fact in relation to, or counsels in relation to, an offence referred to in subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence.</div></li></ul><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">I implore this government to remove Harper now. What he has done, and what he continues to do to Canada's First Nation's community is in my view, unlawful, unjust and unreasonable. </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">Lack of crown consent, failure to ratify international policies, lack of funding to assure clean water and healthy food for First Nation's people and systematic racism against First Nation's continues. This Budget is another attack, yet again to victimize, to dehumanize and destroy First Nation's communities. </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">Mr. Harper must be removed. </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">Waterloo Ont</div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" dir="ltr">N2V 2L2 </div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236"><br></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236"> </div><div class="yiv1256213365" style="max-width:1024px;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;font-family:monospace;font-size:12px;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8584"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(39, 43, 49);" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8583"><h1 class="yiv1256213365" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:'Museo Slab';font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8582">Federal budget could mark end of duty to consult with First Nations</h1><div class="yiv1256213365" style="font-family:Merriweather;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8663">Consultation dollars will now flow through mining corporations<br style="" class="yiv1256213365"></div></div><div class="yiv1256213365" style="font-family:Merriweather;line-height:1.75;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8665"><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8664">Tens of millions in dollars for consultation processes on Aboriginal lands made it into the recently tabled federal budget, but not for First Nations.</div></div></div><div class="yiv1256213365" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:12px;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9294"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="max-width:1024px;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9293"><div class="yiv1256213365" style="font-family:Merriweather;line-height:1.75;" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9292"><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9291">The Supreme Court of Canada has said that the Crown must consult and accommodate First Nations when development threatens to infringe their rights. But Canada and the provinces have begun to offload that duty onto mining companies who seek to prospect on Aboriginal lands.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_9295">Largely ignored in analyses of the federal budget is a new way of financing consultation with Indigenous communities at early stages of mineral exploration and mine development. Consultation will now be funded through mining tax credits that can be “flowed through” to investors to fund exploration and development activities.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13089">Tax breaks assist firms to attract venture capital into the exploration industry in the face of assertions of Indigenous jurisdiction to lands and resources. There is no equivalent financing mechanism to transfer government revenues or lower costs to Indigenous groups who engage in consultation activities or who are impacted by resource development.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13090">In fact, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development cut project funding in 2013-2014 to core operational capacity for First Nations organizations and tribal councils, which affected consultation and policy development budgets.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13091">So while First Nations have been crippled in their capacity to respond to development activities on their lands, the public is now subsidizing industry’s ability to negotiate with First Nations.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13092">The federal government promises to consult industry stakeholders about the appropriate contours of what constitutes a “consultation cost.”</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_13093">But leaving this determination up to industry and the federal government carries significant concerns. While consultation costs may include relatively benign practices like public hearings and interpreters, it could also veer quickly into greyer areas, for example, gifting new band council offices. In that case, Canada would be financing infrastructure on reserves through subsidies to corporations, rather than directly allocating funds to bands to self-govern.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">Most poignantly, these publicly subsidized consultation costs raise questions about how Canada is dealing with questions about underlying Aboriginal title. Could consultation costs include insurance premiums driven up by Indigenous assertions of sovereignty? Legal fees for injunctions served by First Nations to remove companies from their lands?</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">Tax credits appear to be part of a new resource management strategy that uses rights-based frameworks of consultation in order to eliminate the legal and political risks of Aboriginal title and gain easy access to Indigenous territories. Consultation dollars should be distributed evenly among parties by Canada; otherwise, the Canadian government fails to uphold its legal obligations to First Nations.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">The relevant 2015 federal budget sections related to these measures are both located in a subsection called <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.budget.gc.ca/2015/docs/plan/ch3-5-eng.html" style="text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(58, 174, 155);" class="yiv1256213365">Responsible Resource Development.</a></div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">Under the proposed changes, tax credits based on community consultation costs are now transferable from junior exploration mining companies to investors through something called the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://business.financialpost.com/news/mining/flow-through-shares-canadas-quirky-tax-innovation" style="text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(58, 174, 155);" class="yiv1256213365">flow-through share.</a> Put simply, the FTS reduces taxable income for investors.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">In addition to the tax credits flowed through, a 15 per cent Mineral Exploration Tax Credit also <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=941329" style="text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(58, 174, 155);" class="yiv1256213365">renewed in this budget</a>offers additional incentive to investors to spend money in the exploration sector.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">As well, if a firm decides not to flow through the credits, they can be banked indefinitely and used against future income.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">This tax-based financing mechanism has the potential to increase development on Indigenous land throughout the country.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">It is also especially significant given the changes proposed to the Canadian Exploration Expenses tax category, which has been redefined in the 2015 federal budget to include costs incurred by firms related to “consultation” with Indigenous communities in the context of mineral exploration and early-stage mine development.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">These costs are also now eligible for FTS arrangement. Firms will be able to “flow” expenses associated with consultation through to investors (refundable at 100 per cent) in exchange for cash to finance exploration and development initiatives.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">These costs could include the negotiation of Impact Benefit Agreements, memoranda of understanding, exploration agreements, and consultation and accommodations related to environmental assessments, all of which are increasingly being undertaken at the exploration phase, and increasingly seen by governments to fulfill the Crown’s duty to consult with and accommodate First Nations.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">Total lost government revenue from both FTS and CEE measures together is about $56 million. Finance Minister Joe Oliver suggests this will “enhance” consultation with Indigenous communities and make resource development more responsible.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">Industry has been lobbying hard for this change, but inclusion of what industry now terms “community consultation costs” has typically been disallowed. Since the passage of the 2012 budget, however, there is increasing evidence that inclusion of these costs has been allowed by the Canada Revenue Agency.</div><div style="" class="yiv1256213365">The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://amebc.ca/media/news-releases/ame-bc-welcomes-federal-government-s-incentives-for-mineral-exploration" style="text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer;color:rgb(58, 174, 155);" class="yiv1256213365">welcomed the measures</a> contained in this year’s federal budget, couching their financial benefit in the language of consultation: “We particularly appreciate the recognition of community consultation costs, as the industry places a high level of importance on engaging communities about the opportunities, impacts and benefits of mineral exploration and development.”</div><div style="" dir="ltr" class="yiv1256213365">Industry is happy to take government money to strike deals with First Nations. Through these subtle tax changes, the government is devolving its duty to consult into private contracts. By shirking its fiduciary obligations, Canada subverts the rightful jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples to govern their lands and resources.</div></div></div></div><div id="yiv1256213365yui_3_16_0_1_1433421916647_8236" class="yiv1256213365" style=""><br class="yiv1256213365" style=""></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>