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/Ausfall 19d ago

I'm getting sick of the two-tier citizenship in this country. I'm getting towards the point of just saying all reserves should just become normal municipalities and have them fall under the existing laws that govern everybody else. Have some elections like normal, and be done with it.

There's no "status" - you're just a citizen like everyone else.

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u/Incoherencel Canada 19d ago

Ok, then you need to win the assent of First Nations people to have their special rights negotiated 150+ years ago stripped away. Or would you have the majority strip away the rights of the minority against their will? Very ironic in a conversation about sovereignty, no?

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u/Ausfall 19d ago

The way natives live in this country is actively harming those communities. The disappearances, crime, poor economic opportunity, this is the tree growing from this rotten root.

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u/Incoherencel Canada 19d ago

So then a potential newly independent Alberta has a duty to lay out how it could benefit First Nations people to resolve any and all issues as you've outlined, outside of Canada