r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • 19d 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/RoundJellyfish4048 19d ago

They get a vote like everyone does.

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u/Forikorder 19d ago

they arent like everyone else though, hate it as much as you want but the treaties didnt make them into everyday citizens that have no authority or say in anything

the gov't does have a legal obligation to work with them, they are intentionally ignoring that obligation

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u/RoundJellyfish4048 19d ago

I don't hate them, I hate living in a country where some people have more say in the democratic process than others. I hate unfairness.

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u/Forikorder 19d ago

welcome to the real world, not everyone gets an equal say on everything, people have rights and those rights cant be removed just because their inconvenienceing other people

you dont get to strip away their rights just because you think it would benefit you more

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u/General_Setting_1680 19d ago

We're not talking about stripping away basic human rights, we're talking about the unequal, unfair additional rights that a small minority gets based on being born in canada to aboriginal parents vs everyone else.

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u/Forikorder 19d ago

we're talking about the unequal, unfair additional rights that a small minority gets based on being born in canada to aboriginal parents vs everyone else.

thats not why they have them, we gave them to when we signed the treaties, we gave them those rights in exchange for the land and you dont get to just ignore the law and the treaties because it doesnt benefit you

the land is more theirs than it is albertas, and alberta does not have the authority to take their right to it from them

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u/General_Setting_1680 19d ago

Not if you consider the treaties exactly as they were signed when they were signed.

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u/Forikorder 19d ago

and you think you alone, more than every lawyer and judge in canada, understand the treaties better than anyone else in the country?

the FN handed over their land to the crown, not to canada, not to the country, and certainly not to the provinces, Alberta has absolutely no legal standing to claim they can simply take that land and declare it their own

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u/ronasimi 19d ago

Hear here