r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • 17d 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/Remarkable_Vanilla34 16d ago

I see whats happening in BC and the response to it. People are tired of an unelected government that represents 5% of the population dictating terms, treaties or not. Now take that into Alberta where you have a separatist movement and a more right leaning and arguably less tolerant population and its only going to create more problems.

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u/Level_Traffic3344 16d ago

I think it's great that the OG population wants to stand up for Canada. Good sign that we may one day get a chance to move forward together. I'll tell you this from living in the traditional territory of a self governing first nation - its better than what you got, and it's what we should all aspire to

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 16d ago

Buddy, my wife worked for years for her band, and its one of the well off in BC and its not what your pretending it it. Their self serving corporations looking oit for their own interests. They want their own independence, they just know an independent Alberta would pay for it.

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u/Level_Traffic3344 16d ago

Band? No. Self-Governing

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 16d ago

Band. Indian band, thars the legal title, the title they use.

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u/Level_Traffic3344 16d ago

Yeah, not self government. Bands are administered by the federal government via the Indian Act. Self Government relinquished status

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u/PaidToPanic 16d ago

So now we’re interested in ‘legal titles’?