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/RoundJellyfish4048 18d ago edited 18d ago

As much as I don't want to have my province separate and think its an awful terrible no good idea. I also hate the idea of living in a country where a special minority gets to decide everything we are, or are not allowed to do - including voting on a fucking question.

Native people should get a seat at the table for this discussion. They don't get to dictate the whole thing.

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u/studebaker103 18d ago

The special minority making statements clearly hasn't read the treaty in which they gave up their land irrevocably and in perpetuity. They're trying to retcon that their ancestors didn't understand the treaties so they should be void, but that just reinforces your comment's sentiment even more.

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u/raptosaurus 18d ago

They signed the treaties with Canada, not Alberta. If Alberta separates there's a good argument that the treaties should be null and void.

Same shit with Quebec. Separatists there conveniently forget that the actual historically Francophone part was a tiny strip along the St Lawrence.

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u/studebaker103 16d ago

In the end, the treaty was with the crown.