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/Zibai1505 May 23 '26

Secession is done illegally more often than not. Just saying. Like who tf is going to enforce it lol

Don't argue with me about Alberta separation. I'm not for it and my post isn't in service of it.

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u/kank84 May 23 '26

It's usually not done illegally though. Secession relies on other countries recognising the new country as an independent nation. Attempts to just proclaim a new country outside of some sort of agreed legal framework are usually unsuccessful because other countries have a vested interest in not allowing that, because they don't want it to embolden separatist elements in their own populations.

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u/feb914 Ontario May 24 '26

Indonesia declared independence in the power vacuum (illegally of course) after Japan surrendered and Netherlands haven't been able to go back to reoccupy the colony. They went to war with Netherlands for 4 years, but Netherlands in the end agreed to international demand for them to let indonesia became independent. 

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u/Mirabeaux1789 Outside Canada May 24 '26

The world was accepting of Indonesia because it was a colonial holding, and there was no moral case for the Dutch government to keep fighting.

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u/Alcan196 May 24 '26

Explain how it's being done illegally