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Alberta to start using federal Certificate of Indian Status Card as of Oct. 4

EDMONTON, AB – Alberta’s Indian Tax Exemption card is being scrapped, in favour of the federal one.

Starting October 4th, the province will begin accepting federal status cards as the only form of identification for applicable tax exemptions on-reserve in Alberta.

Provincial Indigenous Relations Minister, Rick Wilson says First Nations leaders have been asking the government to eliminate the Alberta tax exemption card for quite some time now.

Eligible First Nations people and bands can purchase things like fuel, tobacco , and accommodations on-reserve without taxes and levies.

Again, starting in early October, the only thing needed in order to do that is a federal status card.

Indigenous people in Alberta are urged to apply for a federal status card as soon as possible if they can’t find theirs. This can be done through First Nations offices or online at canada.ca/indian-status.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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