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Originally Posted by rubecube
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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This is a pretty stupid analogy, man. Even if you consider Aboriginal lands to be sovereign, there is no dispute about the RCMP's jurisdiction to enforce an injunction ordered by the Court of Queen's Bench to clear a highway. I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find band leaders who would suggest otherwise.
The situation just isn't analogous to, well, anything except the interaction between an aboriginal population of a country and that country's government.