Bill Gallagher

Strategist / Lawyer / Author

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia required reading
RR makes a major prediction - @ABDanielleSmith will become the 5th premier to lose office as a result of fighting the native empowerment movement (YK NB Man) as their win streak closes in on #400 on the road to resources - bad news for Alberta!

[Yvonne Dean ☕🌈 @Frazzling]

Danielle Smith is a stranger in her own country - The Globe and Mail https://t.co/xWi6E5nOQ3

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@maxfawcett required reading
@ABDanielleSmith has turned toxic on the native file
1 attempt to stymie judge
2 legal losses on treaty rights
3 Chief Justices in public rebuke
pipeline MoU seriously undermined
natives closing in on 400 legal wins
AB worst on reconciliation!

[Russ Diabo @RussDiabo]

Canada's Conservatives are on a collision course with Indigenous rights | Canada's National Observer: Climate News https://t.co/JDm8LJaYoR

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainsteaMedia my home town (Bathurst)
uncle D Hartigan already behind enemy lines at Melville battery - dad R Gallagher arrives in 5 days time with 403 fighter wing RCAF - there's the Museum of Regiments in Calgary - features D-Day
RR says @ABDanielleSmith should visit it

[James Brun @LeBrunJames81]

Soldiers from The North Shore Regiment, landing at Juno Beach, Nan Red sector, 6 June 1944.

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia worst native relations in Canada

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Premier Smith asked about Treaty 8 Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi saying they could engage in civil disobedience to stop a referendum.

Smith says the Critical Infrastructure Act can be used against anyone who blocks projects, but hopes it doesn't come to that.

Adds the referendum doesn't require a duty to consult.

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia native legal win streak closes in on #400 on the road to resources

Alberta native leaders throwing down the gauntlet re the referendum on the road to resources

RR says going to be hard to raise investment on the road to resources

Road to Resources (Get-it?)

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

First Nations chiefs say civil disobedience an option if Alberta referendum proceeds https://t.co/dv5LbjNxbI #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia that didn't take long
G&M appears to endorse RR's predictions as to pipeline routes - 24 hrs later & 398 legal win mark
Distrust of war room politicos looms large - that end run on recent native referendum court wins seals the deal!

https://t.co/FXfWDL3T03

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia more on #398

[80] .... the impact on the species”, it is not the court’s job to craft coherent reasons for administrative decisions. That is the Minister’s job, and the reasons here fall below the standard of justification required on reasonableness review.

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia native legal win #398
proposed nuclear disposal siting in Renfrew co
Species at Risk analysis - court says Minister did not properly comply with legislative steps requiring its justification / decision making - back to the drawing board

https://t.co/I2n9gNYIWY

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia - RR prediction (see map)
RR predicts none of these routes are going to happen for bitumen pipeline - although there's a chance for one by tripling the TMX route - big qualifier - will cost upward of $100B - native empowerment decides the outcome / then the cost

[Markham Hislop @politicalham]

Excellent CBC story about possible pipeline routes.

What strikes me is the brazen disregard for the NW BC tanker ban.

Then again, why not? Chutzpa got Smith this far, why stop now?

Carney keeps backpedaling and compromising.

https://t.co/6GKcdJiPPb

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia native legal win #398 (FCA)
repeat win blocking disposal of nuclear waste - this one appellate level: D2C + Species at Risk - both federal jurisdiction lapses - RR says native legal win streak is peaking while country fixates on western separation

[APTN News @APTNNews]

Federal Court of Appeal sides with Kebaowek First Nation that has been fighting the approval of a proposed nuclear waste dump at Chalk River.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:
https://t.co/EHiBQFgWBz

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@Mainstreammedia another RR prediction comes true
NB showing leadership on legal evolution of AT

RR predicted Drapeau J analysis would likely prevail months ago - btw - cautioned NB Chiefs (keynote) on this point 3 yrs ago in Moncton - place still cross-piled with landclaims!

[Cormac Mac Sweeney @cmaconthehill]

Justice Minister Sean Fraser tells me the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the Wolastoqey case may have an impact on the Cowichan case in B.C. and other Indigenous title claims across the country when it comes to private property. Tune in to @CityNewsVAN 24/7 for more

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@ABDanielleSmith @politicalham
Bad timing / Bad news
Exxon - already downsizing in Alberta - looks to reenter Venezuela heavy crude - tidewater - refineries
RR says for every $B spent there- means a $B not spent here - so referendumb away folks!

https://t.co/LYJVjqVjXF

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@ABDanielleSmith perfect timing for a pipeline
you've decided it's perfect timing for a separation crisis can't have both - no private proponent will commit to a pipeline - not with every FN opposed - you've embarked on the wrong strategy - you're also offside the Clarity Act

[Brian Jean @BrianJeanAB]

The need for more pipelines has never been greater, we need them in all directions, to all coasts.

BUT the biggest impact we can have is by building a million-barrel-per-day pipeline to Canada's west coast. This pipeline can bring economic prosperity to all of Canada.

The time to build is now!

#abpoli #ableg #alberta #oil #pipeline #canada

https://t.co/4zvBzTg6l6

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@ABDanielleSmith @jengerson ACFN 100% correct

RR (fr AB lawyer) (fr treaty negotiator)
(fr oil patch regulator) (fr pipeline strategist) says:
ACFN win is #397 on road to resources - shutting down Q1 & likely Q2 No compromise in the cards without involving Treaty natives

[Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation @ACFN_KaiTaile]

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation: Smith's two-step referendum is a cynical waste of time and money.

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@ABDanielleSmith @jengerson RR says proposed referendum Q is not compliant with the Clarity Act.
I've written about this in my 1st book re Quebec Secession / JB Cree / context of native consultation
Might be new to you but not to native rights experts
You're out of order!

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@ABDanielleSmith
Video is 100% accurate in terms of what the court ruled
Trying to skirt Treaty D2C via a referendum on whether to have a referendum is pretzel logic that will 100% backfire on UCP fair-weather separatists
RR says Clarity Act / Treaty rights / will be upheld

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Here’s a video about why Danielle Smiths rewording of things doesn’t change the outcome of the Alberta courts ruling. You can’t ignore constitutional obligations! If the process could lead to separation then Alberta government has a duty to consult First Nations!

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@Mainstreamedia important video loop
RR been saying since forever - it's native empowerment that determines major resource project outcomes - on west coast pipelines even more so - now closing in on 400 legal wins - Premier Smith's rhetoric is their biggest helper at the moment

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

“I don’t think that pipeline’s ever going to be built.” #cdnpoli

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@DanielleSmith RR says due to the premiers strategic stupidity the phrases: separation referendum - judicial appeal - native rights - investor uncertainty - can all now appear in the same sentence.
An inexcusable outcome for a leader that blames investor uncertainly on Ottawa!

[Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal]

If a separatist group wants to fight this in court, they can pay for their own appeal. It is not the responsibility of Alberta taxpayers to subsidize a political project the government claims it does not even support.

https://t.co/vVQJpxwi88

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@MainstreaMedia this is 100% accurate commentary
entire dynamic is governed by the Clarity Act / Treaties no one should be commenting without having read both

RR says natives will hit 400 legal wins this year (397)
Biggest underreported business story of the decade

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

For a quarter of a century there has been the duty to negotiate with First Nations if a province Wanted to separate.

Some treaty and constitutional lawyers said that wasn’t important and continued on

Now we’re here and everyone is mad the inevitable would happen. 🧵

[Bill Gallagher @ResourceRulers]

.@Mainstreamedia western FNs recent legal win streak

RR says impact continues to elude MSM - climax of native empowerment:

#381 Cowichan Tribes
#384 Haida AT
#387 Gitxaala / DRIPA
#388 Sylvestre / Feasby J
#392 Metlakatla
#394 Musqueam
#395 Nuchatlaht
#397 ACFN Leonard J