Canada said stalling aboriginal rights declaration (joins USA & Australia)

The hypocritical voices sing "THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND'S NOT YOUR LAND!!

MONTREAL — Canada has teamed with the United States and Australia to stop the United Nations from passing a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, says Amnesty International.

The human rights group, along with opposition parties, accused the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday of stalling the declaration along with these other nations.

It's been twenty years that the international community has been working on a declaration on aboriginal rights, said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.

"It's difficult to imagine an important issue of human rights that the governments of the world have taken more time to resolve," Neve said Monday.

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land for pipelines.. air bases for polar flights (cheaper on gas than around the world than through Europe from Asia)... just when all this is about to become valuable. Water too. Hydro dams.. etc. Rare minerals.