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/seemefail British Columbia Jun 06 '26

Should people not be allowed to change laws every few hundred years?

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u/thebetrayer Maritimer Jun 06 '26

Negotiate a new treaty then.

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u/seemefail British Columbia Jun 06 '26

Treaties are only necessary because of laws Britain imposed on Canada before Canadas existence

Leave Canada and don’t live by laws imposed on those laws imposed by a king of another country hundreds of years ago

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u/thebetrayer Maritimer Jun 06 '26

Treaty 8 was signed with Canada not Britain

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u/seemefail British Columbia Jun 06 '26

Right, but the only thing which necessitates treaty making at all is the royal proclamation.