Premier Scott Moe during the news conference after the meeting of the Council of the Federation on Dec. 9, 2022. (Screengrab from live feed)
Prairie premiers call on prime minister to retract justice minister’s comments on NRTA
Apr 12, 2023 | 10:33 AM
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The premiers of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta are outraged after federal Justice Minister David Lametti said he would look into rescinding the Natural Resource Transfer Agreements (NRTA) between Ottawa and the prairie provinces when he spoke with Indigenous leaders last week.
These agreements date back to 1930 and gave prairie provinces the same resource rights all the other provinces already had.
In a joint statement posted on Twitter on Tuesday, the premiers called on the prime minister to immediately retract Lametti’s “dangerous and divisive comments.”
They highlighted the federal government cannot change the constitution on its own, adding it should not even consider taking resource rights away from the three prairie provinces.
