Still, when it comes to alienation, Crowchild believes Indigenous people have a veritable stranglehold on what that really entails. After all, he is descended from a long line of native leaders on the western Prairies, reaching back to Alberta’s formative years as a province. “This movement called Wexit, the Alberta one to leave Canada, is fine, but they’d have to leave the land behind and its resources as well. However, aspects of the burgeoning Wexit movement raise uneasy issues for Quintal and many others in the region. I think that could be the way that pipelines get built, for example.”“This offers our country an opportunity to allow us to be real equal participants.

Source: National Post November 22, 2019 14:22 UTC