Russ Diabo Update on Canada's "Termination Tables": What the government calls “Recognition of Indigenous Rights and Self-Determination Tables”
It’s down to Band-by-Band now to choose to develop an authentic self-determination plan or accept the status of a municipality/corporation federally defined as “Indigenous government".
From Russ Diabo — Self-Determination and Territorial Planning: Priorities & Capacity Issues
This is a Presentation I made last night (May 23, 2025) in a zoom session with Marlene Hale’s Solidarity Webinar.
After 149 years of poverty, dependency and oppression under the colonial Indian Act Regime, the Mark Carney government will now take advantage of the results of the Trudeau decade, which involves lining up over 2/3 of the 600+ Indian Act Bands/Reserves at what I call Termination Tables and what the federal government calls “Recognition of Indigenous Rights and Self-Determination Tables” where federal negotiators have “core mandates” to end/replace Aboriginal and Treaty collective rights to fit within federal domestic definitions of “self-determination” and “self-government”, including a “self-government fiscal policy” (see attached) that off-loads programs and federal legal responsibilities onto “Indigenous governments” forcing them to use [their] own source revenues, including taxation and loans, to cover the ongoing costs of governance and program delivery, like closing the gap in housing and infrastructure.
Since the First Nations economy for a majority of Bands is based on federal transfer payments, it was easy for the Trudeau government to co-opt and compromise AFN [Assembly of First Nations], the regional Chiefs’ organizations and most Indian Act Band Councils, with funding channeled though the 2017 Canada-AFN Memorandum of Understanding on “Joint Priorities”, (see attached) meaning AFN surrendering to federal legislative priorities, since in the Bilateral Process created by the MOU, the Trudeau government controlled the funding, process and agenda of supposed the “co-development” of “Indigenous Peoples” federal policy and legislation, watering down First Nations Aboriginal and Treaty rights in the process.
The federal Master-Plan to get rid of the Indian Act with federally defined “self-government” and “modern treaties” is in the 2021 Briefing Package to the Governor-General, Mary Simon. (see attached)
It’s down to a Band-by-Band process now to choose either develop an authentic self-determination plan or accept the legal status of a municipality/corporation as a federally defined “Indigenous government”.
I’ll keep advising interested First Nations on how to develop an alternative to federal-First Nations municipalization, taking place, along with the Metis and Inuit.
Regards,
Russ Diabo
First Nations Policy Analyst
Cell: (613) 296-0110
Dividing tribal nations, keeping them apart, has always worked. And fighting for scraps always worked, too.
Authentic Self-Determination starts with not accepting illiterate inherited imperial colonial notions as to what money itself is. Colonial western governments are themselves at odds with simple logical and mathematical principles of Abstract Representation and Applied Mathematics.
As Marc Gauvin, formerly of Canada and now in Spain, teaches: "an "abstraction" in math/logic is a representation of the essential structure and properties of a pre-existing 'thing". To be valid, an "abstraction" cannot initiate the existence of anything new. Formal intenSional [1] definitions are abstractions while extenSional definitions are not.
Our definitions of natural physical phenomena are also abstractions as are the logic and relations that emanate from the physical universe and that underlie human "inventions" adapted to operate in the physical world. Math and formal logic are in essence discovered as opposed to being invented.
Purely human constructs like "money" in order to be meaningful in any common domain e.g. material real world economy, must be defined in terms of said domains in valid intenSional logic Otherwise they are useless absurdities, at best laughable but never as foundational concept of anything relevant.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Extensional_and_intensional...
It seems to me that First Nations can challenge the imposed systems of imperial colonial money on the basis of the illiteracy of such systems.
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/174-a-legal-approach-to-cancelling-all-current-money-contracts
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/271-brief-history-of-money-s-misrepresentation
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/286-the-beast-of-compounding
Much more to be found here:
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2
I highly encourage Tribal Leaders to study and challenge the thing called money itself in colonial systems of it as being illiterate and impossible, and in violation of basic principles of law even within these same colonial governing legal systems.