🇨🇦 Alberta's Sovereignty Push Gets Strangled by Legal Warfare Before It Starts

A lawyer is now arguing in court that Alberta has lost its moral authority on treaty rights and therefore cannot hold an independence referendum. Let that logic sink in. The mechanism used to block a democratic vote on self-determination is not a constitutional argument about process — it is a moral character test applied selectively to one province. According to this framing, Alberta must first pass a values audit administered by its opponents before it earns the right to ask its own citizens a question.

This is exactly how sovereignty movements get killed in Canada — not through honest debate about the merits of federalism, but through procedural and moral disqualification. First Nations treaty rights are being instrumentalized here as a legal cudgel against a political outcome that Ottawa and its allies fear. Real respect for Indigenous sovereignty would look like honest dialogue, not deploying it as a veto against provincial democratic expression. The establishment has no intention of letting Alberta ask the question.

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