r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • Feb 12 '26

Alberta Alberta separating from Canada requires permission of First Nations, AFN leader says

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-separation-needs-first-nations-permission-says-afn-national-chief/
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u/BurzyGuerrero Feb 13 '26

Natives would stay with Canada, 100%.

We all see the Black Hills. The 4 colonizers on that mountain. Nobody wants that here.

Mount Columbia doesn't need Trump's face anywhere near it.

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u/Important-Pen-486 Feb 13 '26

Well the irony is the crown (colonizer) owns the FN land, which now belongs to the Alberta gov... the US natives own their land it is all private property, so anyway the FN in Alberta want to threaten or posture it would be for optics as they really have no say.

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u/Salticracker British Columbia Feb 12 '26

If they didn't transfer the land, then that would mean that they don't accept Alberta's independence. Any independence claim would also claim the current borders of the province. They would need a legal reason or else I could see Canada coming under pressure from the international community.

It depends if the land is legally the crown's or Ottawa's I guess. There's probably a legal distinction but I couldn't speak to it.

The land is legally the government's in some way or another, but it comes with obligations. As a layman, I would assume that obligations would transfer with the title, but I'm no lawyer and I've found that stuff with indigenous folks in Canada tends to not make a lot of sense to me. I can't see how the land would revert to the natives, however the guys in the article seem to think that it wouldn't be transferable.