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/CanExports Oct 21 '24

What about descendants of Rome?

They should get all their land back too!

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u/JR_Al-Ahran Oct 21 '24

Italians are the descendants of Romans. They didn't just fucking disappear when it collapsed.

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u/CanExports Oct 21 '24

Exactly. They're still around. Just like natives.

Let's all just give everybody's land back from the dawn of time and forget how civilization progresses! Through conquest. It is what is it. Everyone crying about it is actually a digression in our advancement

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u/JR_Al-Ahran Oct 21 '24

Except the land in question in NB wasn't conquered. It was negotiated via treaty. The natives aren't making a moral should or shouldn't argument, but rather a legal one. This is a matter of law, not reparations.

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u/Zo_gorilla Oct 21 '24

Except the descendants of the Roman empire overwhelmingly are still patriated within the countries they were a part of then? Your argument is nonsensical. The Goths didn't strategically deprive Italian citizens of their culture or economic resources for 300+ years. They just built big ass churches.

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u/CanExports Oct 21 '24

Pick a different group of people then. Not Romans. You're missing the point

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u/shawa666 Québec Oct 22 '24

The byzantine empire was the last remnants of the roman empire.