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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Why wouldn’t they live there? You think indigenous lands would’ve remained independently sovereign for the last 300 years?
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Who knows? But for various reasons, the Crown chose (primarily) to acquire traditional first nations territories in Canada through treaties rather than other methods (for example, conquest). Canada's courts have consistently found that the Crown cannot now resile from the bargains struck in those treaties (unless it can clearly demonstrate that it is justified infringing on treaty rights).
Who knows if the federal Crown can meet that (onerous) burden in the case of regulating this fishery?
And in any event, nothing justifies the violence being reported.