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Originally Posted by fredr123
Man, it would be pretty sweet if it worked that way. I didn't sign up for the GST or vote for the government that brought that in. Heck, I don't recall voting in favor of income tax either.
There's a difference between moving to Europe today to live amongst Europeans and showing up in Canada effectively claiming sovereignty over all the land and the people that had occupied it for centuries.
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Not to mention that when Europeans came, they chose to treat the First Nations as sovereign trading partners and did not 'conquer' the lands. It's pretty disingenous to blame the First Nations for asserting Treaty Rights since that was the entire point of Treaties from the European standpoint. If it had been up to the First Nations, treaties would never have been necessary as they were already on their lands and didn't have a concept of land ownership, they would have been happy to share the land and set up territorial boundaries as they did amongst themselves before Europeans were on the scene, but as far as a traditional First Nations culture is concerned, the European claim to sovereignty over any part of traditional native lands is bogus.