Whitehorse, YUKONSLAVIA -- Premier Dennis Fentie told the press his Yukon Party government is committed to the Yukon Protected Areas Strategy (YPAS). But he has put YPAS on indefinite hold in the spirit of bringing back investor confidence. (How exactly does that work?)

Somebody came forth with the brilliant idea--again--to parade out Manitoba as a role model for resolving protected areas disputes. Anybody who listened to a presentation by Ed Huebert at the 1999 Economic Forum heard the vice-president of the Manitoba Association of Mining explain that the Manitoba experience cannot be transferred wholesale to another jurisdiction.

Manitoba is a province that has to work within the confines of its own legislation and policy. Yukonslavia is a federally-controlled territory where nobody knows what laws or policies will be in place one hour to the next. Just ask the placer miners who were bushwhacked recently by the federal Fisheries and Oceans at the eleventh hour.

The Manitoba experience was successful because people of integrity worked together in trust. One side didn't slip off stealthily to do midnight deals with the minister.

Once bitten, twice as shy. After the fast-tracked Fishing Branch fiasco, where industry only had one token seat at the table, park boundaries were expanded secretly on maps, mining claims seized, access cut-off to a mining property, and other such slick backroom gymnastics were done before the first meeting was scheduled. The business coalition would be incredibly stupid to ever trust those environmental and government "negotiators" again.

The only reason "negotiators" want to snare the business and industry sectors back into the web is to look as though everybody was consulted and happily agreed to the outcome of a preordained decision.

The protected areas strategy should be burned, embalmed and buried. Take no chances. Rather than looking east toward Manitoba, why not look next door at the British Columbia experience. That province's economy was totally ravaged by a socialist government jumping overboard to grab land.

Besides, Parks Canada has a mechanism for establishing national parks in the territory; as well, the Umbrella Final Agreement provides for each of the 12 Indian bands to set aside their respective special management areas.

How much more land needs to be alienated? There is no legitimacy attached to withdrawing 12 percent of the land base from any jurisdiction, anyway. This lunatic proposal flows from a document produced by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.

This is the same conference which called for the elimination of the affluent middle-class society. Read white Anglo-Saxon male.

Why would any government be so contemptuous toward its people as to embrace a concept that is patterned after the oppressive bonds that took over 70 years for the Russians to shake?

The first step in the UN's goal is to dismantle industry by focusing on the Marxist-Leninist method of seizing land and all means of production from the people in the name of saving the environment from outfitters, trappers, farmers, loggers, miners and other economic contributors.

The 1992 UN Conference proposed reversing the advancements of human civilization by eliminating domestic livestock and fisheries, thus depriving the masses of meat and dairy products.

Just recently, the federal Fisheries and Oceans demonstrated its resolve to shut down placer mining, which, in turn, will kill off the tourist trade in outlying communities. Without an industry to support a community, there is no need for the rural community to exist, as Atlinites, Dawsonites, Mayoites and residents of Premier Fentie's home town of Watson Lake have already learned.

Robert Sopuck, director of the Rural Renaissance Project for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, shared his wisdom about such issues in an Internet piece captioned Rural Communities March in Britain.

On September 22, 2002, over 400,000 country people marched through London, England, on behalf of rural rights. "Money matters," one marcher told the press. "But freedom brought us here."

The Countryside Alliance formed to protect rural sports from increasing attacks of well-organized, well-funded animal-rights and environmental-extremists groups and an indifferent government. Soon, everything from agriculture to forestry, from rural housing to trespass laws, were added to the list.

"No matter what 'door' is entered in rural policy, be it farming, forestry, hunting, livestock raising, it quickly becomes apparent that the entire rural system is at risk, not just one sector," wrote Sopuck.

In England, they discovered working in isolation, or better yet, fighting among themselves, merely armed the enemies...the extremists were picking off rural groups one at a time.

Sopuck continued: "Rural Canada is an easy target. Cities hold many more parliamentary seats than the countryside. Unthinking governments catering to urban majorities think little of attacks on the vulnerable rural minority and its pursuits. The record over the last decade looks like a vicious downward spiral."

His examples included the proposed Species at Risk Act, the animal cruelty act, firearms registration, anti-farming regulations, new natural resource-use controls, the onerous Fisheries and Oceans regulations, and so forth.

Hey, Yukonslavians have felt every one of these things on the jaw.

Sopuck noted most of these new rules come from Ottawa, where Toronto holds 50 seats against the Province of Manitoba's 14 seats, not to mention that Alberta only has 26 seats and Yukonslavia has a single ineffectual voice. Is it any wonder the federal government runs roughshod over rural Canada?

Plaintive wails from American rural folks about what the urban activists did to them was heard by columnist/author Vin Suprynowicz. In his great book, "Send in the Waco Killers," a ruralist said: "They take away our kids and won't let us decide how they should be raised up. The kids come home saying everything we taught them out of the Bible is wrong.

"They came with their environmental regulations and shut down the mill and the mine and threw us out of work; now they come onto our land and tell us you can't cut the wood, you can't dam the creek, you can't run as many cattle, because it's all endangered and protected.

"And that's what they got away with BEFORE they started taking away our guns. Why do they want our guns? What on earth do they have in mind for us once we're DISARMED?"

Again, the answer lies with the United Nations. No legitimacy. But in a Cairo conference in 1995, the same year the Canadian politicians rammed that abominable Bill C-68 mess through the parliamentary and senate factories, Canada was one of the leaders of--and promised to be a role model for--the aggressive UN initiative to globally disarm civilians.

There are enough rules currently on the books for all firearms in Canada to be confiscated without compensation. Not only does the law render citizens second-class, but the state is now a legalized robber baron of any of your personal property--firearms owner or not, the state can take your cash, wall hangings, contents of your safety deposit boxes.

So, how long do you think it will be before the state does a regulatory taking on your titled property? Not long.

For starters, the state can get its claws into real property owned by the middle class by designating houses as "heritage". The definition of "heritage" is getting younger by the year in Whitehorse subdivisions like Riverdale and Hillcrest.

Then the board of "heritage" fascists can dictate to the owners, who must pay the bills, exactly which color of paint to apply so the ticky-tacky streets can be lined with ticky-tacky houses all painted the same ticky-tacky colour so residents can live in a ticky-tacky "sustainable" community.

Eventually, the jackboot, gun-toting "officers" (they don't relish being called "bureaucrats" any more) will come to remove the occupants. The United Nations agenda declares that any survivors of rural communities will be relocated into human concentration camps, which are mainly the cramped, concrete ghettos called big cities.

To meet the UN objectives of eliminating individuality, property rights, intake of meat and dairy products, use of fossil fuels, appliance, air conditioning and surburban housing, the planet must first be cleansed of capitalism.

Gee, hopefully the Dark Ages were fun because it looks like civilization is goosestepping "back from the abyss" toward those giddy times again.

According to the "Communist Manifesto", the manual for the United Nations, the best way to start striking down the evil middle class is to seize the land and all means of production from the eco-sinners.

While governments erode people's civil rights and liberties in slow-motion, the green Nazis are chipping away, too. Neither group does anything in monumental proportions to inflame the middle class to full revolt. Yet.

The people grumble, of course, about the blizzard of unjust laws and the unfair practices perpetrated against them. But these apathetic sheeples (cross between a sheep and a person) rationalize surviving the last batch of inconveniences and will be able to endure whatever faces them presently.

Through the incremental method of encroachment, many middle-class capitalists and politicians are gradually brainwashed into accepting the socialists' politically-correct rubbish which is criminal. "Oh, well, we didn't really care about losing those mining claims" or "Oh, well, I didn't like that piece of art very much, anyway." And on it goes. No one infraction is bad enough to raise a fuss or a fist, risking lives and limbs to engage in open rebellion, although, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, "the tree of liberty certainly must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike so the rulers are warned from time to time."

It would, however, be nice to see the Yukon government show some political pluck and turn this place into a world-class "role model" by doing something astonishing to support capitalism on the home front before rural Yukoners perish under the weight of the UN agenda.

Investor confidence and the ravaged economy would soon take care of themselves.

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