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  • This house believes that indigenous peoples would be justified in sabotaging (violently or otherwise) economic projects in the event that they are built across or on their land without their democratic consent.

    North American Universities Debating Championships 2016 · Open Final · 2016-10-21

  • This house believes that Norway should back off from oil drilling in the Arctic

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    It is estimated that there are 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverably oil north of the Arctic Circle. this represents 13% of the undiscovered oil in the world and about three years’ worth of current global oil usage. Oil drilling in the Arctic is expensive, dangerous and technically challenging. A significant proportion of the oil lies offshore, in the Arctic’s shallow and biologically productive shelf seas. Main parties involved: Canada, Russia, US (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland), Norway, and indigenous peoples.

    Cardiff Open 2016 · 4 · 2016-04-16

  • This house would grant legal personhood to land.

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    “Legal personhood” grants legal rights to non-human entities, such as corporations. People can sue on behalf of those entities when they face significant harms, without the need to demonstrate harms to human parties. In 2014, New Zealand granted legal personhood to a former national park. In 2016, New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River as a result of negotiations with an indigenous tribe. this led to co-governance of the river by the tribe and New Zealand. In 2008, Ecuador added “rights of nature” afforded to the land to its Constitution. These rights were used in 2011 to halt the construction of a road which caused severe flooding.

    Canadian BP Nationals 2016 · 5 · 2016-03-18

  • As an author of a non-colonial language (Algic Iroquoian Xhosa Quechua etc) this house would only write in one’s native language

    Malaysia Debate Open 2016 · 3 · 2016-03-10

  • That governments of states with large but marginalized indigenous populations should aim for the increased employment of indigenous peoples over employing immigrants

    JPDU Pre-Australs 2015 · Open Final · 2015-06-28

  • This house would allow indigenous communities to engage in illegal but Incrative business (gambling prostitution soft drug etc.) to revitalize their economy.

    15th T.I.Tech Cup 2015 · Open Quarters · 2015-02-27

  • This house would allow the Children's Aid Society to force chemotherapy.

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    An 11-year old First Nations girl and her family and refusing chemotherapy to treat her leukemia in favour of traditional indigenous therapy.

    Canadian British Parliamentary Championships (@ Western University) · Open Final · 2014-11-28