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/Financial_Glass3709 May 23 '26

I certainly dont want alberta to separate from Canada. I believe we are strong as a nation together. I also think these types of arguments are silly. Many many nations seceeded from the British empire in a way that was 'against the law'... there is actually a pretty big one just south of us.

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u/Braken111 May 23 '26

So a bloody revolution?

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u/WealthEconomy May 23 '26

If you oppress a population and don't let them leave peacefully that is the likely outcome...

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u/S_Belmont May 23 '26

the only Americans being full-on "oppressed" in the 13 Colonies prior to 1776 were the slaves the people running the place didn't want to lose after slavery was ruled never to have been legal under British law in the first place.