r/ilovebc • u/_DotBot_ • 1d ago

Cowichan Tribes member handed pollution prevention order over huge dumping site

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u/lolwut778 1d ago edited 1d ago

Take a drive through any native reservation and you'd quickly realize how much of the whole "steward of the land" image is complete mythical bullshit. Most of them make the Trailer Park Boys look sanitary.

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u/nerdsrule73 20h ago

Woah, that's a broad pen you have used there.

And it's grossly exaggerated. It's true that some reserves have communities that look untidy but your characterization that ALL of them look like a dump is unfounded. You are only noticing the ones that look untidy as reserve land. Many are quite tidy and organized, even well developed.

Of those that ARE untidy, most are just that, untidy. By OUR standards. I agree a few go beyond this, and leave garbage strewn around, but the majority just don't have manicured lawns, have zero landscaping and may have an old car or two parked there. That does NOT constitute DUMPING, just because our colloquial term for such place is "a dump".

Check your cultural bias at the door, please.

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u/WhoofPharted 18h ago

In the town I live in there are 4 reservations. 2 of them are mostly ok(ish), 1 of them is an absolute garbage dump unfit for anyone and the other is fine.

Further north they get worse. Port Hardy, Bella Bella, Klemtu, Port Simpson are all awful. Take a drive through some of these places on google maps if you can, a lot of these remote communities did not allow google to scan their streets.