{"id":969,"date":"2026-07-17T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/?p=969"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:51:08","slug":"pipelines-how-canada-is-still-a-colonial-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/2026\/07\/17\/pipelines-how-canada-is-still-a-colonial-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipelines, How Canada is Still a Colonial nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I was watering my\u00a0garden not too long ago when\u00a0i\u00a0went home and decided to do some of the assigned readings\u00a0for the week. Upon reading the pipeline\u00a0portion,\u00a0it struck me to be very egregious about the pressure that exists for the construction of\u00a0pipelines (Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024). The most egregious harm without a doubt, in my opinion, is\u00a0that of the lack of consent that these projects are treated with\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024);\u00a0in\u00a0particular, those\u00a0of first nations groups\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I myself could not imagine the garden being torn up for a pipeline project\u00a0but despite such feelings of indignation, it pales in comparison to the\u00a0much\u00a0grander\u00a0operation happening against the lands of first nations groups, which in addition are unceded\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024).\u00a0Well over\u00a0500 kilometers\u00a0of indigenous land is being violated\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024).\u00a0To put that into a context that can well express the feelings of\u00a0anger,\u00a0people should\u00a0feel\u00a0at\u00a0this\u00a0violation;\u00a0that would be the equivalent of\u00a0a\u00a0violation of\u00a0an average\u00a0person&#8217;s property well into the thousands of times.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a very disturbing way, this undermines Canadas efforts at reconciliation with first nations groups\u00a0as these underhanded plays belie\u00a0Canada&#8217;s\u00a0efforts of a\u00a0genuine\u00a0reconciliation.\u00a0Instead,\u00a0these could be used as arguments for why Canada is still a colonial nation.\u00a0Especially\u00a0when you take into\u00a0consideration\u00a0 all\u00a0the other affronts\u00a0indigenous\u00a0peoples face such as poor reserve\u00a0maintenance\u00a0and\u00a0overrepresentation\u00a0in jail\u00a0populations\u00a0(\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca\/reserves\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca\/reserves\/<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gc.ca\/socjs-esjp\/en\/ind-aut\/uo-cs\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.justice.gc.ca\/socjs-esjp\/en\/ind-aut\/uo-cs<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">All this shows that we\u00a0have a lot of work to do and in that respect\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0not hard to admire\u00a0Tim Bray.\u00a0Who would go on to be arrested in 2018 due to protest\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024).\u00a0While I&#8217;m not proposing that everyone should go out and get arrested, it&#8217;s the fact that Tim Bray went as far as he did and the fact that he choose to go further\u00a0than\u00a0just expressing discontent in the comfort of his own home\u00a0(Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024).\u00a0In addition, all too often people protest when an issue affects them directly. Living in surrey for some time now\u00a0I\u00a0can see people protesting about\u00a0Palestine, nurse issues and so on but\u00a0I\u00a0have yet to see a protest about pipelines through\u00a0indigenous\u00a0lands.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Being able to care for a garden has sort of opened up an appreciation for nature, and it has helped\u00a0me\u00a0to become more sensitive to the issues that pipelines pose to the environment but to\u00a0also the violations they represent\u00a0to the people who were here first, the first nations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Cornell, R., Drobnies, A., &amp; Bray, T. (Eds.). (2024). <i>Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain<\/i>. Between the Lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watering my\u00a0garden not too long ago when\u00a0i\u00a0went home and decided to do some of the assigned readings\u00a0for the week. Upon reading the pipeline\u00a0portion,\u00a0it struck me to be very egregious about the pressure that exists for the construction of\u00a0pipelines (Cornell,\u00a0Drobnies\u00a0and Bray 2024). 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