The subject of this submission is broadly our Treaty Right to Health, which our ancestors negotiated as a pillar of Treaty.

Indigenous Peoples entered into historic Treaty No. 6, and adhesions, in the province of Alberta (and Saskatchewan, which is not the subject of this submission) with the British Crown; Canada (and by extension the provinces and territories) is a ‘successor state’to that Treaty and as such is a Treaty Partner. We entered into treaty with the spirit and intent of ensuring the sharing of lands and resources and the continued provision of specific treaty obligations on the part of the British Crown. Those obligations are now to be upheld by Canada and the province of Alberta, by virtue of Indigenous laws, British law, international law, Canadian Constitutional law, jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada and the common law system.