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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Technically speaking, the Federal Government can expropriate from the First Nations, since treaty land is technically federal crown land... but it would take some positively massive to overrule their fiduciary duty to the First Nations to do it. Politically, it would be suicide unless it was something in the national interest to a sufficient magnitude that failure to do so would cost the nation significantly. Sadly, our SWRR wouldn't fall into either category.
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They haven't been willing to do so for "nation building" type things like the Mackenzie valley pipeline either, so I can't imagine anything that would make the cut, unless we were at war or something.