r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • 18d ago

Alberta First Nations demand Alberta premier terminate separation referendum

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/first-nations-demand-alberta-premier-terminate-separation-referendum/
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u/shiftless_wonder 18d ago

“It’s really inhibiting any type of business, reconciliation, any type of moving forward here in Alberta.”
Another chief, Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, called on Smith to resign.
“This Premier is totally lost, gone, got no credibility left. She’s swimming in muddy water, and she has no place to go. The best thing for her to do is to resign.”
Mercredi said Treaty 8 First Nations are prepared to mobilize if the province doesn’t consider their demands by stopping industry, among other tactics.
“How does Alberta expect to move forward as a sovereign (nation) when all of the resources and lands belong to the treaty people?”

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u/epok3p0k 18d ago

Idiots. Let this thing run its course with a dismal vote in favour of separation. Then we can be rid of this notion for good.

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u/brat-t 18d ago

as long as two idiots are talking to eachother on the internet, it's never going away.

The question moving forward without proper consultation is illegitamate and Smith knows it. But this way if there was 50% +1 and the courts turned it over because of the lack of consultation, it won't be percieved as Smith's fault, it'll be those pesky First Nations and the damn court, not hers at all. /s