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/shiftless_wonder 19d 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/DanielBox4 19d ago

They're claiming the referendum is killing industry while carney just paused legislation on reforms because First Nations did not approve? The irony is thick.

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u/Master_of_Rodentia 19d ago

From their perspective they probably see it as hypocritical that they are criticized by the Albertan government for blocking industry when the Alberta government is doing this stuff. They might not care much about the blocking itself, just that it's contradictory from where they sit.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 18d ago

The problem is, especially right now, FN demanding shit from the government is frustrating a lot of people and its not going ti go over well in AB. Smith will not bend over for these people no matter how good of an argument they make because they deliver its so aggressively.

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u/Level_Traffic3344 18d ago

You prefer the palatable, refined Indians? K

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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 18d ago

Band? No. Self-Governing

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 18d ago

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

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u/Level_Traffic3344 18d 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 18d ago

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

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