I think even well intentioned non-race focused people in the province might have an intractable problem, ever being able to successfully reach a widespread agreement with the country’s first people that would enable Alberta sovereignty to ever go forward. There would have to be some pretty solid assurances of fair representation for all. I just don’t think we can ever agree on what fair representation and fair outcomes are, enough to ever solve it. Too much protectionism and promise of riches for all parties.

That, healing the injustices of the past in a fair way, and achieving mutual agreement on availability of titled ownership of land for any human that has been born in Canada are pretty contentious. There’s too much of a spectrum of moderate vs radical belief on what reconciliation looks like, on both sides of the round house, for first peoples and the colonists generations to ever bridge the gap, in my opinion.

However it shakes out, someone is going to feel a sense of injustice and loss. Likely many from either group.

As much as it pains me to say, I see what decades of misaligned incentives and misallocation of capital have done to divide natural born Canadians of all colors from First Nations brothers who have an equal contempt for The Crown.

I hope we can take our republic back and for Canadian of all races be a unified wall against government overreach. That’s my dream for Alberta.