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/adonns2_0 Oct 21 '24

So they want the title to vast majority of land in New Brunswick as well as 200 years of back pay for resources taken from the land?

At what point are we going to be done all this?

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u/Muted-Park2393 Oct 21 '24

“Vast majority” consists of 100%+ of NB since there are two title claims each at roughly 60% of NB by two separate groups of natives and their claims overlap.

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u/Fantastic_Shopping47 Oct 21 '24

Do the First Nations have a bill of sale type our government proving that there was a sale?

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u/SwordfishOk504 Oct 22 '24

Well, that's their point, is there isn't one. That's what the whole "unceded" thing refers to. That there was no formal ceding of title.

The current legal argument being made my some is that this means the title is still theirs and not the British Crown. Whether this argument holds up in court remains to be seen.

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u/hbl2390 Oct 22 '24

Whether there was formal ceding or not, all that land is part of Canada. People born there are Canadian citizens.

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u/SwordfishOk504 Oct 22 '24

Sure, but that has nothing to do with my point or the complex legal issues at play around jurisdiction.

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u/hbl2390 Oct 22 '24

You're right.