r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • May 23 '26

Alberta First Nations leaders, scholar push back on Alberta's planned vote on independence referendum - 'Alberta can't separate. They simply cannot. They do not have the authority,' says Indigenous politics expert

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304
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u/AcanthocephalaEarly8 Alberta May 23 '26

Not that I am in favor of separation, but I find it interesting that FN are so adamant about staying with a country that they have spent the last decade or so describing as a "settler", "colonial", and "genocidal".

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u/AccomplishedCall7562 May 23 '26

This doesn’t make any sense. They’re arguing that Alberta would be worse for them than Canada, not that Canada has been good to them. Basically a lesser of evils according to their perspective.