Alberta’s premier tells First Nations chiefs to 'check themselves'

The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs, representing First Nations across Alberta, unanimously voted this week to ask RCMP to look into whether the province's fall referendum amounts to criminal treason by Smith and her United Conservative Party.

In a news release, the chiefs said organizing the separation vote is an intentional treaty violation and that Smith’s government is ignoring serious risks to Canada’s sovereignty.

Smith addressed that positioning on Wednesday at a press conference on affordability. She has repeatedly cited two competing petitions on either side of the separation debate as being the reason she called the referendum.

However, she has said she'll vote for Alberta to stay in Canada.

Joey Pete, grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, says it’s Smith who needs to check herself.

"This whole time she's been trying to steamroll her separatist regime onto the rest of Albertans as well, and infringing on the Constitution that built the framework of Canada. Her and her government need to check themselves, and remember who they work for.”

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