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Originally Posted by rubecube
You do see that you're expecting them to define their sovereignty within the very same framework they've been colonized and dominated, right? Regardless of what you or I think, many of these communities do view themselves as sovereigns who've been dicked around for 250 years by French and British colonialists.
So if you consider yourself a sovereign community, and the police from a neighbouring country show up at your border, in military fatigues, and guns drawn, you just let them walk right in and do as they please?
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The land in question is "unceded". Which, from the perspective of the people living on it means it was never controlled by Canada. The fact Canada is now aserting rights over the natural resources on that land is, to them, absurd.