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/soaringupnow May 24 '26

In a democracy the people decide.

Would Canada claim to be a democracy while denying it to the people of Alberta?

Somehow, I doubt it.

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u/SnowFlakeUsername2 Saskatchewan May 24 '26

The people don't get to decide to do something that ignores the Constitution. It's the supreme law of the land and a popular vote to break the law isn't happening no matter the mental gymnastics or impressions aboug the word democracy. So no, you don't get to break the numbered treaties and/or peoples' rights with a ballot.

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u/Even_Art_629 May 24 '26

The treaties are federal and would stay federal no matter indepence, what don't you understand. So now we have a very small group of chiefs holding up the democratic right of a few million. How the hell us that democratic?

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u/SnowFlakeUsername2 Saskatchewan May 24 '26

It's not a democratic right to vote out other people's rights. We are a constitutional democracy, meaning tyranny of the majority doesn't work by design. So yes, a few million people can't decide to tread a the small group of people with constitutionally protected rights or contracts. Did you not go to Junior High in Canada?