Alexander Gaming Commission Offers Rebuttal to Alberta

The Alexander Gaming Commission (AGC) today released a strong rebuttal to the Alberta Government and Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission $B!G (Js cease and desist operations attack on the Alexander First Nation $B!G (Js information technology business initiative, Alexander Internet Technologies (AIT). Alexander Internet Technologies has built a 25,000 square foot state-of-the-art Data Center, offering services to companies of all size who rely on their IT infrastructure to provide their data when and where they need it, securely and reliably. Businesses, including Oil & Gas, Media & Film, Imaging, and Online Gaming, and other First Nations Communities and Businesses. Businesses requiring reliable, dependable, high quality co-location hosting facilities depend on the Alexander Internet Technologies team and infrastructure to run their computing infrastructure in a cost-effective manner. Alexander Internet Technologies has been licenced by the Alexander Gaming Commission as an internet service provider and data centre to offer hosting services to AGC-licenced online gaming businesses.

The people of the Alexander First Nation are now and have always been sovereign Native peoples.

· Chief Ray Arcand and Council of Alexander First Nation have consistently and historically exercised ultimate and exclusive jurisdiction over the territory of the Alexander First Nation.

· The Alexander First Nation has existing, inherent and inalienable rights which includes the right of self-determination; the right to control economic development within the Alexander First Nation territory; and the right to promote and preserve peace, order and good government within its territory.

· The Alexander First Nation entered into a treaty with Canada in 1876, and has had ongoing governmental relationships with Canada since then. This predates Alberta $B!G (Js 1905 entry into Canada by 29 years.

· As gaming and gaming related activities have a significant impact on economic development and peace, order and good government within its territory, the Alexander First Nation has the ultimate and exclusive right and jurisdiction to regulate gaming and gaming related activities within the Alexander First Nation territory.

· The Alexander First Nation has a deep and long running history of initiating, participating in and regulating gaming activities, which are integral to the culture of the Community.

· Alexander First Nation $B!G (Js rights as a sovereign nation are protected under Section 35 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Province of Alberta does not have any jurisdictional authority to govern the Alexander First Nation.

Chief and Council of the Alexander First Nation, as the governing body in and for its territory, has the power and authority to enact the Alexander First Nation Gaming Law pursuant to which it created the Alexander Gaming Commission, setting guidelines for operation of online Gaming Commission. Alexander Internet Technologies announces it has been granted an Internet Service Provider and Data Centre Licence, under the Alexander Gaming Commission Regulations.

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Originally published March 21, 2007