Danielle Smith released a video from her trip to Ottawa Friday reflecting on the origin story of Canada that's not sitting well with Indigenous groups in southern Alberta, who are offended by what the Alberta premier said.
"It was their duty to support one another as neighbours and to build this country together, developing democratic institutions that would yield good and stable governance," Smith said, continuing.
Salkeld said she has seen the video a number of times and said she's hearing from the Indigenous community all over the province who are against it. "The main statement she made was that she implied that Indigenous peoples were quote, good neighbours in the creation of Canada and that they equally participated in everything that came to put Canada together as a country and nation, implying we had equal partnership in all those pieces," Salkeld said. "That would include residential schools, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples that is continuing today.
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