If Canada continues down its current path, how will the country be able to justify its own existence over the course of the next decade?

On the 20th of February, the Canadian federal government participated in another act of self-immolation, hidden within a fisheries announcement.

Ottawa decided not only to “share” responsibility for fisheries, marine management, and emergency preparedness on British Columbia’s southern coast with the Musqueam Indian Band, but also to acknowledge its rights and title to more than half of the country’s largest metropolitan area.

That means that the City of Vancouver and many of her suburbs are now in uncertain territory. Jurisdictional lines are being blurred, practical outcomes are entirely unknown, and land rights, including fee simple title, are now in question.

This is a huge problem for a country that is currently asserting on the world stage that it should not become America’s 51st state.

By attempting to hand off rights and title, as well as responsibility for fisheries, marine management, and emergency preparedness, to another, separate nation, Ottawa is essentially saying that it is not in charge.

Anyone who has been paying attention will know that this course of action is not new. Governments, provincial and federal, have been shouting for years that this land is not actually ours, and that it is “stolen” or “unceded”.

Every time an elected government does something like this, it is arguing for its own jurisdictional submission. It is an argument that will leave Canadians looking elsewhere for representation, leadership, and answers.

Here is the problem: the nations to which the government of Canada is submitting itself are closed societies that Canadians have no economic, political, or cultural right to access.

Read the full article at Without Diminishment: How will we justify the existence of this ‘stolen’ country?