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Originally Posted by GGG
Are the treaties with the Crown or with Canada? My understanding is the treaties were with the Queen of Great Britain and her representatives. So could Alberta maintain itself as a commonwealth state and uphold the treaties as the Queens designated government in Alberta. So step one would be to become a commonwealth state.
It wouldn’t work with joining the US but by that point it would be “Alberta” courts interpreting treaties and not Canadian courts
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Treaty 8 is signed between Queen Victoria and First Nations, Metis Script is also an agreement with the Monarchy. That said, the federal government now administers it.
That said, the treaty is pretty clear that the land is meant for the Dominion of Canada.
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AND WHEREAS, the said Commissioners have proceeded to negotiate a treaty with the Cree, Beaver, Chipewyan and other Indians, inhabiting the district hereinafter defined and described, and the same has been agreed upon and concluded by the respective bands at the dates mentioned hereunder, the said Indians DO HEREBY CEDE, RELEASE, SURRENDER AND YIELD UP to the Government of the Dominion of Canada, for Her Majesty the Queen and Her successors for ever, all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to the lands included within the following limits...
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https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/.../1581293624572
My point rests more upon the idea of sovereignty, and how it is expressed and upheld. Canada, both as a colony and as a state has expressed its sovereignty in the region since 1788, though there were clear limits to their ability to uphold Canadian law until after the 1930s.
That said, I am not a treaty lawyer, and it would be unprecedented, and therefore difficult to speak with any clarity.