By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter     First Nations leaders in Alberta are slamming Premier Danielle Smith on the province’s first piece of legislation under her leadership. Yesterday, the premier introduced Bill 1, Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act. The proposed legislation, she said, “is designed to be a constitutional shield to protect Albertans from unconstitutional federal laws and policies that harm our province’s economy or violate Alberta’s provincial rights.” “Nothing in this Act,” reads the bill, “is to be construed as abrogating or derogating from any existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada that are recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.” The act by its existence has already done that, said Treaty 6, 7 and 8 leaders,

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