SunriseChampion
Senior Member
As an entirely pragmatic matter, treaties aside, this simply isn't true.
For the vast majority of first nations, they don't generate their own electricity, they don't produce much of their own food, or construction supplies; in other words, they are entirely reliant on the Canadian state.
I'm not suggesting that's as it should be; or that that connotes anything other than the obvious facts.
It is what it is; were total sovereignty granted tomorrow, most of these communities would suffer immensely.
How we got there involves much injustice; so does all of human history.
But we're here now.
We ought to do better.
That's all well and good but has nothing to do with who has sovereignty over the land in question which is the issue at hand.
It's a mess, yeah, but continuing to ignore the fact that land that has never been ceded has never been ceded is a poor way to start repairing the bullshit.
We can't even manage to honour treaties in relation to land that has been ceded so, maybe start there before going all buck on running land that was never ceded.
It's all very embarrassing and quite pathetic.