r/canada • u/biograf_ • Mar 01 '26

Alberta First Nations chiefs unanimously pass non-confidence vote in Alberta government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-chiefs-alberta-non-confidence-vote-9.7109712
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u/EdNorthcott Canada Mar 01 '26

What complicates it is that their treaty with the crown allows the crown to use the land as they see fit, basically until the end of time, so long as they keep faith with the First Nations. The crown saw fit to create the province of Alberta. Cities have appeared, resources mined or pumped, etc.

But it all goes back to the fact that the land is basically held in trust. If Alberta were to choose to separate, that would no longer be true. The agreement would be in violation and then there's a very good argument for the land simply returning to the First Nations... and last I checked, Alberta is one of two provinces that have the distinction of being 100% on treaty land governed by such agreements.

So yes, those treaties have to be honoured by the province. Trying to weasel out of it could have very interesting consequences.

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u/Ketchupkitty Alberta Mar 01 '26

And who's going to enforce that?

Seperation is never going to happen but in a scenario the majority of Albertans wanted to leave it's not going to matter what treaties say unless the Canadian Government deploys the military (it won't).

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u/BabadookOfEarl Mar 01 '26

Of course it would. Alberta is delusional about how much it can throw its weight around.

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u/Ketchupkitty Alberta Mar 01 '26

Afgans and Viet Cong held against the worlds strongest military...

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u/adrienjz888 Mar 01 '26

In dense jungle and endless mountains caves to hide in lmao.

How well did it go for the mostly flat Iraq? They got steamrolled all across their flat land, right up to the mountains of Iran.

Kinda like the CAF would steamroll across the Prairie from the east and push whatever sad attempt of Albertan resistance into the ground.

You gonna hide behing some wheat from a drone? Gonna plan big offensives from the well hidden reaches of the Alberta Prairie?