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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been approved after 143 Member States voted in favour, 11 abstained and four – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – voted against the text.

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Hmmm... what is the common link between those four countries?

I would urge everyone to write to their MPs and tell them how ashamed we are as Canadians to have our government actively oppose human rights legislation. We have lost any international credibility we ever thought that we had.

[ 17 September 2007: Message edited by: Le Téléspectateur ]

All people everywhere should be pissed off ...whats next children rights? Women rights?

These agreements aren't binding anyways but do send a strong message to all people on how low governments will go and the next time you hear the bullshit in a speech or whatever about human rights etc. you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are "lying bags of feces".

Please flush the Neo-con already Canada!

It's also strange that New Zealand a green party country took it's stance also....but yep they too are just concerned about resource money at the expense of human rights.

[ 17 September 2007: Message edited by: Buddy Kat ]

It's not just a matter of indigenous rights, but the entire multilateral UN system these countries are giving their collective finger to. The US has been doing this even before Bush. Australia as well. Harper's Canada is the next member of this possy (whether we are Goyle or Crabbe is another thing).

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... the word Canada is derived from a Mohawk term, Kanatiens, which means “they sit in our village.” A contemporary translation of this term would be “squatter.”

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