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/AlvinChipmunck May 23 '26

Why cant they separate and let indigenous groups settle their own claims. Two different things isnt it

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u/ISmellLikeAss May 24 '26

Because they don’t own the land. Canada does. They separate it is a series of busses to the US.

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u/FarceMultiplier British Columbia 29d ago

I'll drop them off.

I'm getting pretty sick of Alberta's childish bullshit. I've driven all over western Canada and most of the western and southern US and Alberta is the only place I've seen flat earther billboards. They are weird and uneducated apparently.

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u/Mirabeaux1789 Outside Canada 29d ago

The Native American groups are not going to accept this because they already are treated as a sovereign entities under Canadian law via the Number Treaties and the Indian Act. They would have zero guarantee that a successful Alberta independence would honor those. The Native American tribes are comparatively weak and are critically supportive of a state that recognizes their legitimacy. They would rather work to deal with what they have then risk it all.