> It _is_ performative (not sure it's nonsense) because it doesn't actually do or intend to do anything. It's cheap.

Yes, that's my point. Once some risk—however small—came to be of land acknowledgements within New Brunswick actually having some legal or practical ramification, poof there they went.

Given how widespread tribal territorial claims are in Canada (the entire city of Richmond BC, for example), I expect more such prohibitions.