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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News (ANNews) \u2013 Six First Nations groups, including the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations and Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, have been granted intervenor status in a court challenge of the Alberta Prosperity Project\u2019s (APP) effort to collect signatures for a referendum on Alberta independence. The APP is attempting to bring the following question to referendum: \u00a0\u201cDo you agree that the Province of Alberta shall become a Sovereign Country and cease to be a province in Canada?\u201d Weeks after APP leader Mitch Sylvestre brought his group\u2019s application forward to begin collecting signatures for the referendum question in July, Alberta Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure sent the question to the Court of King\u2019s Bench to determine whether it\u2019s constitutional. Section… <\/p>\n

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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News (ANNews) \u2013 Six First Nations groups, including the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations and Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, have been granted intervenor status in a court challenge of the Alberta Prosperity Project\u2019s (APP) effort to collect signatures for a referendum on Alberta independence. The APP is attempting to bring the following question to referendum: \u00a0\u201cDo you agree that the Province of Alberta shall become a Sovereign Country and cease to be a province in Canada?\u201d Weeks after APP leader Mitch Sylvestre brought his group\u2019s application forward to begin collecting signatures for the referendum question in July, Alberta Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure sent the question to the Court of King\u2019s Bench to determine whether it\u2019s constitutional. Section... <\/p>\n

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