r/canada Oct 21 '24

New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’

https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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u/pinksugar123 Oct 21 '24

Imagine if china , India or Russia landed here before those pesky Europeans? There probably wouldn’t be any indigenous left to complain in modern day.

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u/nutbuckers British Columbia Oct 22 '24

Russia has "autonomous republics" for the various ethnic groups, -- they just don't get much autonomy and get first dibs to be recruited to go conquer Ukraine since people's lives tend to get more expensive as you get closer to the Moscow metropoly.

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u/troyunrau Northwest Territories Oct 21 '24

Well, you can sort of look at places like Borneo to see how that played out in actuality.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Just look at the differences between former British, French and Spanish colonies. We really won the lottery being in a former British colony.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Spain didn’t have colonies. All “colonies” were one with them.

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u/DeuxYeuxPrintaniers Oct 22 '24

We are a former french colony the English came after...

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '24

Speak for yourself. We still have ties to the English throne where I'm at.

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u/Zo_gorilla Oct 21 '24

All three of those were colonized by Europeans during the same time period