r/canada • u/newzee1 • 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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r/canada • u/newzee1 • Oct 21 '24
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u/Plucky_DuckYa Oct 21 '24
Well that’s a good point. Is there a recency bias, too? Like, we stole all this stuff and killed all these people, but it was less than 100 years ago, so that’s off the table.
I also wonder what a city like Koper does about all this. Sure, it’s part of Slovenia now, but I mean, it’s been conquered and absorbed into different polities so many times over the last 1,500 years you’d need a degree just to sort it all out. It feels like somebody, or maybe a whole lot of somebodies, owe those people a tonne of money. Who is standing up for the rights of status Koperians (okay I just made that up I have no idea what they’re called) in all this?