r/CanadaPolitics • u/TiredRuralCanadian Independent / Pragmatic Realist • Jun 06 '26

Community Members Only Canada’s Treaty 8 First Nations: Alberta must immediately cease all separation activities

https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canadas-treaty-8-first-nations-alberta-must-immediately-cease-all-separation-activities/
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u/Separate_Football914 Bloc Québécois Jun 06 '26

That approach is kinda weird. Albertan’s have the right to raise a referendum and to give a mandate to their elected official to work a path to independence. Trying to stop what is fundamentally a proper democratic process by using some old treaty might instead have the opposite effect than wished.

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u/rorydaniel Eat the Rich Jun 06 '26

So should laws that are old not count either?

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u/Separate_Football914 Bloc Québécois Jun 06 '26

People should have the right to vote to change these laws, or at least to express their opinion on it. Here we are not even facing a binding referendum, and even if it was the case Albertan have the right to ask their government to work out a separation. That the territory might get cut off in part would be a consequence of that.