Colonial Canada

Decolonize Now

The crux of colonialism is the rails that span the continent. Corporate greed and expansionism started with the rails. It is time that the railroads became accountable to the titleholders of the land they occupy all over the country. For every train that travels across indigenous territory they should be paying a toll to the nations that allowed that in the first place. I quote UN 1514;

The aspirations of the peoples of the Territories to achieve self-determination, and the international community's perception that United Nations Charter principles were being too slowly applied, led to the United Nations General Assembly's proclamation on 14 December 1960 of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples - resolution 1514 (XV).

The Declaration states that "the subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the United Nations Charter, and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and cooperation, and that steps should be taken to transfer, unconditionally, all powers to the Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories so that they might enjoy complete freedom and independence".


Electronic ticketing is already in use on the 407 in Ontario and it is a proven method of monitoring every vehicle movement and holding the traveler accountable. When CN and CP move their trains through Miqmac, Algonquin, Haudenosaunee, Anishnabe, Cree, Blackfoot, Chilcotin , Salish and any of the other nations land they are exploiting, they should be paying a toll, similar to ETR practices already in place for individual motorists on the toll highway.

This would be the minimum that Canada should do to honour the treaty on decolonization that she signed. We can hear the whining in the boardrooms of the railroads at such a suggestion that they should be forced to honour any such law. They think they are the law and that this is still the wild west. Take the example of CN’s action on Shawn Brant and how they use the Canadian legal system to back their illegal actions.

Canada has to start honoring the international treaties they are a party to and force CN to drop their lawsuit against Shawn, install the electronic toll collection and start the process of decolonization now, better late than never.

With unity of mind through the natural law comes great strength,

Thahoketoteh of Kanekota