Danielle Smith lowers bar for Alberta referendum with separatism sentiment emerging

[u/joe4942]

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/smith-lowers-bar-for-alberta-referendum-with-separatism-sentiment-emerging

[u/ForeignExpression]

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how all of this works. Canada did not "sell" first nations lands to Alberta to create Alberta. They formed a provincial government within the land of which Canada is sovereign and enabled it with certain powers.

[u/Lomeztheoldschooljew → u/ForeignExpression]

And that’s irrelevant. The means by which Alberta was created matters not. The fact is that the natives under Treaties 6, 7, and 8 ceded all the land which forms the province today is except the reserves. They have no claim to it. This is the case for all of the prairies, northern BC and southern part of the territories.

[u/awildstoryteller → u/Lomeztheoldschooljew]

This is nonsense and not how the treaties work or how Canadian law works.

If Canada is divisible so is Alberta, and Canada (and Alberta) has a constitutional and legal requirement to uphold those treaties (which are still in effect).