Indigenous consultation contacts

Consultation timelines pause for the holidays

In light of the holiday season, the Aboriginal Consultation Office (ACO) acknowledges that there will be some First Nation, Metis Settlement and Credibly Asserted Métis Communities’ office closures and, therefore, will pause consultation activities from December 21, 2026 to January 1, 2027, inclusive. This time period will not be used or included when calculating timelines for consultation.

This includes the time a First Nation, Metis Settlement, or Credibly Asserted Métis Community has to:

• respond to notification of a project, or
• review and respond to a project follow-up(s), or
• review a Record of Consultation Log.

Note: 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. However, the ACO will not be issuing consultation adequacy decisions during the consultation timeline pause period.

2026 government holidays

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

Table 1. Government of Alberta holidays not counted as working days.

*Consultation timelines pause for the holidays is from Monday December 21, 2026 to Friday January 1, 2027.

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