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Originally Posted by rubecube
It's a little more complicated in Canada because there are a number of First Nations communities that have a completely legitimate distrust of the government, and a number of these communities also feel that Canadian laws do not hold jurisdiction on First Nations land. Effectively, they consider themselves to be independent societies.
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The romani and sami have completely legitimate reasons to distrust the Finnish government too. I mean we effectively had a government sanctioned eugenics program up until the 1960's, and you can guess who that targeted. The legal system and social service system have also been rather brutal on them at times. It's a really ugly part of Finnish history. (And not something you hear about in school, unfortunately.)
The legal and practical side of this is course a rather different issue than the moral side, and yeah, the First Nations have a rather unique status, so that complicates things.