Like all Albertans, we love this province. We raise our families here, work the same lands, cheer for the same hockey teams and worry about the same things — jobs, crime, high prices and a better future for our children.

That is why I want to speak plainly about why First Nations are legally challenging the separation referendum. It is not about stopping Albertans from expressing frustration with the status quo. It is about one simple fact: separating from Canada would break the treaties our ancestors signed with the Crown.

Those treaties are the reason we are here today in a place called Alberta. Treaties are not ordinary contracts — they are nation-to-nation agreements that created the foundation for Alberta itself.

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Separation is premised on the incorrect notion that Alberta is not treaty land. Almost all of Alberta is, in fact, treaty land. In December of last year,........

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