What’s going on with Indigenous rights in Canada?
A look at the battle for justice for aboriginal native Canadians.
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@michaelbell3952
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I have an idea for a spiritual sequel for this video. Comparing minority languages in both Canada amd America, whitch should also include shared native nations.
You could add segments on minority languages like Ukrainian, New England French, ext.
@Mr.chickensoup
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Im indigenous Canadian I was born and raised on this land. I tired of making it sound like people born here are not indigenous to this land there is room for all the people here.
@sarahtartt
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Internal bleeding lets you out of hospital same day?
@gsxvgsebhy
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Native groups should have to choose. Become regular Canadians with no special rights or status, or go back to living as they did before: no modern hospitals, infrastructure, homes, transportation devices, utilities, entertainment etc.
You don't get to choose what parts of the real world you have to deal with.
@gsxvgsebhy
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Just scrap everything. This is a democracy. There should only be one kind of Canadian with one set of rights.
@pth6060
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
First Nations didn't pay for the land!!!!!!! It's time for war to decide who owns the land!!!!!!!!!!
@jessel3217
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Reconciliation will kill Canada.
@happytrails151
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Even if it is the moral thing, it's just become impractical to fully respect the aboriginal grievances. They are a small percentage of the population and it's become a money pit that is standing in the way of our progress. The money isnt going to increase general well being of First Nations people.
The correction that is coming is that the solution has to stop being financial. At the very least it cant just be to hand over millions and billions of dollars worth of cash or land. Our country cant afford this
@Maetsack
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
There might have been a time when people cared about this stuff. That time is ending. You are part of Canada or you are not. You aren't a special class.
@EngineerGaming-zy1wj
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I want indigenous people to have access to essential services; to have their culture and language protected against assimilation and to be helped out of poverty and addiction. I don't want lawyers and local elites (tribal leaders & representatives) to get rich while indigenous people as a whole continue to live in misery. The problem is that reconciliation has led to more of the latter than the former, that indicates a major disconnect in what people thought the policies would bring this community and what is actually happening on the ground. I think the solution to this problem is actually kind of easy. There should be less squabbling about rights & ancient treaties and claims and more direct aid. Support the creation of foundations that they can build their communities on top of and become more self-sustaining. They don't necessarily need streets renamed and statues of problematic men who died hundreds of years ago removed, many simply need essential life services to not be a question mark. To me reconciliation means fixing the attitude of the past, to approach the issue not as us vs them, but rather as a collective issue of one of our communities struggling. Anything that reinforces the antagonism isn't doing anything to help us heal.
@bustervic
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Canadians have nothing to feel remorse for. None of us where there at the time of Confederation and taking lands from them is no different than them taking lands from each other before Europe came.
If anything the FN community should be upset at the influx of new immigration and amount of money granted to them who have no history here.
@iippo06
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I don't think the Han are going to give Vancouver back to the natives.
@Harry_Clarke15
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I do like these canadian political videos, i hope you keep updating us about what is going on across the pond
@x225w
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Sorry but fuck section 1 of the charter of rights and of freedoms.
@thematthew761
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
This video was perfect, as right as a US student, we are dissecting the topic of the indigenous in Canada
@coreyrachar9694
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I was going to travel to northern Canada, but when I saw how cold it was I said "I'm havin' Nunavut!".
@MemphisYN
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
canceling major pieces of infrastructure to appease a couple hundred people that are most likely all already on welfare undermines Canada's legitimacy
@marlasingerr1996
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
The course correction is happening now. Priorities for us are changing quickly
@SUMTimesUseful
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
The reserve system seems to be underdiscussed as an issue, if only because looking at the health outcomes for first nations it really is two majorly different pictures. Life expectancy on reserve is developing world level and last I checked sits at about 68 years (and varies substantially geographically) whereas off reserve life expectancy is something close to ~78 years, a bit below average but nothing too shocking.
The former figure seems particularly troubling given that federal spending per person on reserve already seems to be tracking something around ~$30,000 per person.
@bedrockgemsonfire4127
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Maybe I'm just looking at that time with rose tinted glasses now, but holy fuck do I miss Stephen Harper and the conservative government.
@Money_Man55
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
as a canadian whos into history, native indigenous should literally just have their own country here. with their laws, their own traditions, buildings etc… like Israel did. they are a whole unique civilization, and unique history. that should survive like they did since the norte chico civilization in 3500BC.
@Toucan.Sam.69
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
The thing with pipeline is that most project that the Canadian government make goes through a reservation
@itsmekyle1
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
UNDRIP is bad for Canada. Europeans coming to this land before the Russians, arabs, asians is a good thing for the world. Not everything people did back then in how they treated the natives were good. But the way the left is going is not a good solution. Also, if there is a claim that thousands of natives children were just murdered and buried in mass graves, I’d personally like to see the evidence as we would expect from any other mass murder. I smell fraud and abusive.
@jamesoldman3021
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Why do we let a small portion of the population dictate what we can and cannot do?
A full blooded Indian friend of mine says "if you want to help the Indians, kick their asses of the reserves and tell them to go out and get a job"!
As another friend of mine says. She can't go back to Europe and claim the land stolen from her family.
The original inhabitants were the majority when Europeans first arrived. Blame their ancestors not the people that are here now. They went along with what the newcomers brought because the Indians of the time recognised the invaders were far more advanced than they were. The indigenous hadn't learned anything over the centuries they had inhabited the land. They were still back in the days before the common era.
When they talk about the unmarked graves at Indian School ask them were their graveyards were when the whiteman first arrived? And why haven't they dug up any of the so called grave sites? Because they know there is nothing there.
@interstate-5
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Anyone opposed to Quebec declaring independence ought to favor granting more rights to First Nations peoples. After all, Parizeau himself blamed "money and the ethnic vote" for the defeat of the 2014 referendum. By ethnic, he meant, Indigenous.
If keeping Canada functioning as a single country instead of balkanizing its eastern Provinces means anything to you, maybe asking the Tribes what they think of a new utility pole isn't such a bad thing.
@Siprophet08
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
"LAND BACK" Have you ever driven through the average reservation? Not exactly the picture of responsible land stewardship.
@shugar8204
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
In my University we are very much bound to Indigenous appreciation. Every class, syllabus, presentation, and major project begins with a land acknowledgement. All guest speakers and presenters start with land acknowledgements as well. Every sign on campus is first written in Indigenous language and then underneath in English. There is only Indigenous artwork. Indigenous classes are worth 6 credits instead of the typical 3 credits. Etc etc etc. However the Indigenous enrollment at this Uni is less than 3% (despite tuition being free for Indigenous peoples). A large majority of classes do not have any Indigenous individuals present.
@Jan-gl7mn
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
They are not the natives of Canada, europeans built Canada, they are native Americans. Bison are native American too But they didn’t built anything worthwhile to own America.
@beachboysandrew
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Would the movement to repeal UNDRIP be known as DRIP?
@warmflash
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Great essay. Where is your Labooboo doll?
@johnnym4497
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I didn't realize how much I missed your videos until I saw this in my feed.
@mythirlmaiden
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I feel kinda frustrated with all of this because despite all the court cases and legal battles and fuss, a lot of reserves still dont have basic necessities. It feels more performative than helpful, honestly. Im very left leaning but one thing I find frustrating about leftist politics is its a lot of performance without a lot of action. I'd rather see more meaningful infrastructure than disputes over land that we all know aren't really going anywhere. Im not sure who the Canadian government thinks its fooling even pretending its gonna give up anything even marginally profitable.
@fuct9569
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
2000's: stop calling them Indian, they're Native
2010's: stop calling them Native, they're Indigenous.
2100: Stop calling them Indigenous, they're Naturalites
@ml-fishing1341
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
We give them ethnic/ race based rights, housing, and billions. Yet literacy is low and waters not drinkable lol
@cane6074
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
This is what happens when you try to build a society based off no fixed or unifying identity, It just becomes a patchwork various competing identity groups who are often working against each other for their own self-interest with a lot of resentment and distrust coming from that. It's mind-boggling that a society would inflict this upon themselves and see the results as a positive.
@VictorJD
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
I will be blunt. As an immigrant to Canada, I do not feel responsible for the historical wrongs committed by the Canadian state. This appears to be a common feeling among many immigrant communities, and it follows that the more immigrants Canada takes in, the greater the proportion of the Canadian population that will feel that way. Combine this trend with the idea that the non-indigenous population should bear the burden of rectifying these historical wrongs at the expense of taxpayers, economic growth, and certainty over property rights and you are guaranteed to get an enormous amount of resentment festering in the population. Hearts have indeed hardened.
@molotowmontana6220
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
In my Provence of BC, with “Reconciliation” fast turning into Reclamation and Retribution (thanks to the almighty band councils), yea, Im feeling pretty cold hearted.
Repeal UNDRIP and DRIPA.
@KT-ly2tr
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 pm
Is this one of the few right wing grifters who both pretends to be straight AND centrist at the same time?
That fake accent suits the fake persona well.
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