Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a group of Indigenous chiefs need to “check themselves,” after they accused her of potential treasonous activity for calling a separatism vote.
The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs, representing Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 First Nations across Alberta, unanimously voted to ask the RCMP to look into whether the Alberta referendum amounts to criminal treason by Smith and her United Conservative Party.
The chiefs say the fall referendum is an intentional violation of the treaty relationship and ignores risks to Canada’s sovereignty.
“We call for this investigation on the basis of the intentional violation of the Treaties; of calling a referendum in the face of severe risks to Canada’s sovereignty and the Treaty Relationship and of failing to take action on the violation of privacy rights of millions of people,” said a statement from the assembly on Wednesday.
“Further, Premier Smith and the UCP government have done all this with significant risks of foreign interference and influence.”
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Smith says the accusation is disgraceful.
“Look, I’ve had my differences with the federal government, but I have never used language like that,” Smith said at an unrelated news conference Wednesday afternoon.
“This kind of overwrought language has no place in a democracy.”
She says her government and the assembly have a collaborative relationship and she wants it to continue but that the chiefs’ language has no place in democracy.
“When they were pursuing a new relationship with Ottawa, I cheered them along. We are pursuing a new relationship with Ottawa that respects our jurisdiction ,and I would ask that they be respectful of that,” she added.
Albertans are to vote Oct. 19 on whether they want to remain in Canada or start the process to hold a second, binding referendum on the province quitting Canada.
— More to come…
With files from Karen Bartko, Global News
She’s not wrong. Time to knock down the indigenous a few pegs and cut off the free money.
Fit in or eff off. We won, you lost.
It’s called a vote you f *ucking moron.
I have been waiting for a year for someone to explain to me why a group which is plotting to take Alberta out of Canada is not a form of treason.
Dinah Moe Humm <<<– exactly !!!
Dinah Moe Humm
Start an investigation into the native chiefs and corruption. Millions given. Not a single well drilled, reserves are worse than third world countries. No surprise this was orchestrated by Justine when the lie berals repealed accountability legislation for monies given. And now the FN ( f u c k e d nations) want to rule not only Alberta but the entire country by guilt (fake ge no ci de) and extortion.
Aren’t the native group the one who are splitting this country and blocking infrastructure work they want the money but think it just grows on trees like the liberals
Chugs are like an inflamed boil on the buttocks of Alberta.
Ridicule from the faction that believes their “sovereignty” allows them to disassociate from Canada’s laws whenever they decide. If the RCMP took any of this seriously, it should result in the province terminating the agreement with the RCMP and starting up a provincial service as replacement. Lawfare against self-determination isn’t going to work for those wanting to keep AB indentured with the status quo.
As should be obvious. The province owes nothing to our first nations and it is not a discriminatory factor in any way.
The federal government, not the provinces, are responsible for the indigenous population.
I dont even think thats a good thing. I do not understand how, in a modern world where you can practice religion and individuality, our indigenous want to be beholding to a document written by a people we consider to have wronged them and the rest of us.
Lysol huffing & burning the siding is popular in certain populations.
Keep it up lib welfare recipients your going to get sued for slander if not charged. Please see how far you can push it before Oct.
Your LPC managed decline is at hand. No trade deal, no prosperity, no money to hand out to you libs. You support the LPC policies so you will be very happy, maybe.
Just cut off all provincial funding to their programs. They don’t need the cash.
No problem, add it to the referendum – Should Danielle Smith and the UCP party be tried as traitors?
Smith looks at the group she is talking to and then says what they want to hear. Does she believe what she says or is it all made-up on the go, so she looks like she is the defender of each group. She backed Anti-Vaxxers, separatists, the groups that want to stay Canadian, and she follows Trump. So where does she stand really?
From a fiscal perspective, I believe we need to re-evaluate how government funding is allocated across the board. The current model of treaty-based payments and specific subsidies for Indigenous groups should be phased out in favor of a universal approach to government spending. Focusing on equality of opportunity rather than specific group-based allocations would ensure that taxpayer funds are used in a way that is consistent and equitable for every citizen, regardless of background.
But, but, but, that’s “MAGA!”
-Canadian Liberal ret ards
Oh how surprising. Traitors do not like to be called traitors.
Becoming more MAGA every day.
I think that your vetting people should check what is posted. It looks like some Maple Magas got let out of the institution this week and have made some vile posts.
Natives can keep their reserves.
Could have had a better deal with Alberta.
Now, you can keep your reserve. Canada will pay your bills, not Albertans.
Just give them some alcohol and a few bucks and they’ll go away.
Let’s have a third referendum to see if we need the second referendum which is about the first referendum which Smith herself now has to say is a waste of scarce UCP taxes.
Cherokee say she have forked tongue.
Must be a politician.
The chugs need to be snuffed. They are worthless to society.
@Jamie:
You smokin’ native tobaccy or whacky tobaccy? You should switch.
At some point, the over-indulgence of Indigenous peoples and their claims to have say over everything will come to an end.
Simply a people, who in principle, say they reject the western ways…yet, seemingly want all the advantages offered.
The tides are turning.
It once suited the referendum queen to say she was Cherokee, but Danielle was quickly found out to be lying.
She lies more than most, and that’s saying something.
All the racists people here who complain about the native americans, are brainwashed by the corporate elites. The eviroment is the enemy to the corporations, the science illiterate are easy to brainwash and they use fear and hate. The First Nation people are a barrier of protection to whats left of the remaining biodivercity. 75% of the animals in the last 50 years are gone. Let that sink in. If we keep doing what were doing there will be no animals and then no humans. Stop being a pawn to conservative propaganda
So DaniQ isn’t Cherokee like she said?
Is anything she says not self-serving?
Big Bird you may as well slit your throat now if you think the UCP will lose the next election. In the meantime, keep crying, it’s funny.
Will someone shut her up? This has gone on long enough… there is NO WAY Alberta will ever be able to leave Canada. There has been enough reasons thrown out in the news already that it does not need to be repeated… but alas… some “folk” just can’t see the forest for the trees. You go Princess Smith!!! You tell’em lol … can’t wait for the next election there hahahahaha :D
That appears to be the issue all the time. Alberta was incorporated as a province “Under” the Dominion of Canada. Obviously Danielle Smith does not know that a corporation cannot be sovereign. She does not know that the Indian Act created Canada’s “Indians” or what treason is. Alberta sits on the Royal Proclamation Boundary Line-Lands Reserved for Indians. The Boundary Line is still law and it has never been repealed.
Alberta should pull all funding for these groups, they get a bunch of money and just complain. Never seen such an entitlement
Get rid of these f *ucking chugs once and for all. Canada is the only country that lets them do what they want.
Wouldn’t have even heard from them if journalistic laziness was not the norm in Canada
Simon T
You should never pray to Allah, you’re literally praying to Satan.
We need to stop giving these Indians anything and really ask ourselves what reconciliation looks like. Were not just gonna reach a magical threshold where we’ve somehow given them enough and then they’ll all just back off or whatever. They will forever have a seat at all negotiations and forever be receiving tax dollars they didn’t work to contribute to and forever be claiming the entire country is theirs despite borders being a colonialist invention.
Everyday I pay to Allah, Krishna, and Jesus Christ that this MAGA, reckneck, Cu*t gets Charile Kirk’d.
She would sell her family too.
She wants to join the US look @ how many times she went to visit Herr tRump she is an excellent helmet shiner!
Smith is right! they get millions of dollars ,that some how stops at the chief and councils , the rest of their people cant afford to get a cheap well drilled under 20k for drinking water
Wow still a bunch of really $hïtty white racists in Canada. You all should be ashamed of yourselves, but you’re too $tüpïd and ïgnørānt for that eh?
We need to burn these treaties up
Dear Alberta, hypocrites and polluters for personal gain…you are literally holding up progress based on your obsolete addiction. We don’t need you, it’s ONLY 73 o
billionaire parasites who benefit from your industry and the rest of Canada is blatantly being sabotaged by their insistence.
BOUNCE!
SINCERELY,
Canada.
The Chiefs of Alberta are right — Smith is a traitor to Canada. Without doubt she is the #1 promoter and enabler of the separatist wing of Alberta. Without her, the separatist movement has no power. She pretends she
wants to remain in Canada, but being Governor of the 51st State of Alberta under Donald Trump would suit her just fine.
F *uck the chugs!!! We need to wipe these coc k suckers out!
Where does she say “check themselves”
One of the few things I like about Smith. She is standing up to the separatist Indians. Good on her.
Now if only Carney and the Liberals would quit bowing to them and handing them our money.
I want those corrupt Indian so-called chiefs charged with treason!@
Yep. Once again the showboating only magnified the problems in indigenous leadership. These special interest groups need to check themselves immediately. Albertans are fatigued with the divisive theater at this point. Maybe focus on the inner city population burdening tax payers for now…