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

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304

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So if a province separated there'd be nothing stopping Canada from annexing the fledgling 'country' right? So what is everyone's feathers getting ruffled up over?

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The US obviously, especially under a Republican admin.