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Originally Posted by peter12
If property owners want to sell, they should be allowed to sell. The fact that you don't think aboriginals deserve the same rights as other Canadians is incredibly appalling.
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They have just as much right to own land as anyone else if they buy it. That doesn't mean all reserve land should simply be carved up into a bunch of titles to be bought and sold like any other piece of land. No other level of government operates that way so why should First Nations?
Any transition to to a fee simple property ownership situation will likely play out like the Nisga'a Treaty where most of the land is still owned by the band but residential zoned areas within the band's land are titled and can be owned, bought, and sold by anyone. It's a process that has to be handled carefully.