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Originally Posted by you&me
I don't want to reach, or put words in his mouth, but I think he's saying that the notion that the native lands in Canada would have been left alone, and the indigenous people free in their own territory in 2020 is rather naive and totally unrealistic.
I don't see what's hard to understand about that, or how anyone could reasonably hold the view that Canada would be much different than it is today - a developed, first world nation.
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Well, I certainly disagree with that. For instance, I see no reason to presume that the current territory which makes up the "Dominion of Canada" would, in this alternate reality, constitute one single state. Indeed, that seems rather unlikely to me. Parts of that territory may have become a French colonial state (or states), or Dutch, or even Spanish. Perhaps the American colonies would have expanded and conquered some parts of the territory. Perhaps other parts would have remained sovereign first nations territories. Who could possibly speculate?
However, I think its very safe to say that it would look nothing like modern day Canada.