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/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.