Indigenous consultation contacts

Consultation pauses and reinstatements

The Aboriginal Consultation Office (ACO) has issued a consultation pause and/or reinstatement for the following communities:

Table 1. Consultation/reinstatement pause dates

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When a consultation pause is in effect for an Indigenous community, all Consultation Timeline and Consultation Adequacy Decisions associated with ‘The Government of Alberta’s Guidelines on Consultation with First Nations on Land and Natural Resource Management’ and ‘The Government of Alberta’s Guidelines on Consultation with Metis Settlements on Land and Natural Resource Management’ (as applicable) are paused for that community. Consultation activities should not take place during the consultation pause.

For proposed projects where all procedural aspects of consultation were completed prior to a consultation pause, proponents may proceed with submitting records to the ACO for an adequacy review. The ACO will not issue consultation adequacy decisions during consultation pauses. Any additional consultation required, as directed in an ‘More Information Request’, may be subject to a consultation pause, as per the listing on this page.

When timelines are reinstated, all consultation activities can be resumed with Indigenous communities as of their reinstatement date.

2026 government holidays

The following days do not count as Government of Alberta working days when calculating consultation timelines.

Table 2. Government of Alberta holidays not counted as working days.

*Consultation timelines pause for the holidays to be determined at a later date and posted on this webpage.

Official consultation contacts listing

First Nations and Metis (Metis Settlements and Credibly Asserted Métis Communities) consultation contacts:

• Treaty 6 consultation contacts
• Treaty 7 consultation contacts
• Treaty 8 consultation contacts
• Metis consultation contacts