“F’N Indians took out our power, I’m sitting on freezers full of stock. Freezers are new and we haven’t had time to have a new generator wired in. Now, it’s personal and all sympathy and patience I had is long gone! 🙁
BTW…I’ve got one hour left on this lap top battery.”
Details at the Hamilton Spectator.
(h/t to Maz2 in the comments.)
Citizens of Caledonia has more, as does Darcey.
CTV
Tuesday updates:
Hamilton’s talk radio station CHML is “racist” – banned from the Confederacy newsconference.
Toronto Sun goes out on a race relations limb to point out the blatantly obvious.
Terrific. The problem is that both he and McGuinty need to realize that millions of Ontarians (and Canadians) do not think aboriginals , or anyone else, deserve brownie points for not using weapons to settle a dispute . They think that should be a given. And they are fed-up with disputes like this one that drag on ad nauseam while politicians utter platitudes.
You want, calm, premier? Show us there is one law for everyone — native and non-native — that judges people based not on who they are, but on how they act.
Indeed.
from
http://www.sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/2006/05/emergency-alert-trouble-in-caledonia.html
Emergency Alert: Trouble in Caledonia
*** EMERGENCY ALERT ***
If you can, supporters of the Six Nations are asked to head to the reclamation site as soon as you can.
Although the blockade in Caledonia was taken down today as a sign of good faith by the Six Nations people, this has been met with an escalation from the settler side. Further postings will follow later today, but at the moment reports are coming in of several hundred hostile settlers who have massed at the site of the confrontation. The people at the reclamation site need support now – if you can make it there please do so.
____________________________________________
Driving directions were given.
It appears that this situation may take some time to cool down.
It’s time for the federal Government to step in, the Ontario Gov’t. obviously has no will to do so. Lack of intestinal fortitude, maybe?
(Where’s Trudeau and The War Measures Act, when we need him?)
Too bad this had to happen on Harper’s watch, no matter what he does, the MSM will vilify him.
Now, let the merde hit the fan.
Time to send in the Marines. Enough already.
You beat me to it, dmorris! Agreed on the ‘Harper will be the bad guy’ prediction too.
And put them to work fixing that road that they dug up. If any one of us *non-natives* did something like that, we’d be arrested in no time. Look what our liberal society has created. Nice. Real nice.
“Them” meaning the natives.
Fairly good coverage at this site, click on the
title next to Daily Headlines (at the top) to get coverage on that story.
http://www.900chml.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428880912&rem=38511&red=80162123aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm
“These issues tend to collect extreme elements on both sides,” said the former Ontario premier,
Enough with the word extreme already not everyone finds pleasure in sitting with their thumbs inserted in their behinds, while common sence is piddled away.
Maybe Harper will have to take care of things after all,as it seems testlicular fortitute isn’t springing forth from the liberal intellect sent forth to save the day.
Wo what has changed in the Native leadership in Six Nations….this is a change from previous behaviour and tactics.
Who is in charge of Six Nations now and just how solidified are they and how are the dissenters kept quiet?
No questions asked any deeper than how many people were hurt today? Sad, this business will get out of control and no good can come of it.
But Harper wont wear it, it will be Dalton using the OPP. While a Toronto mayor will call in the army because of snow an Ontario premier will never call in the federal army. It will be the OPP.
My Dad was driving through Caledonia on the way to pick up my little brother from college on the weekend. He was not familiar with the area, and was forced to take a detour to get around the Native blockade. While driving significantly out of his way he was pulled over by an OPP officer. Apparently, the country road he was driving on was a 60 not an 80, like most rural roads. I’m not sure what he found more annoying, the fact that he was forced to take a OPP detour to get around the blockade (which the OPP won’t end) or the fact that the OPP was also staking out and pulling over motorists on the detour.
It didn’t matter that my dad was from out of town and had no idea about the detour or the unusual speed limit. The officer explained that since they set up the detour they’ve had a couple of accidents, caused by increased traffic, and speeding drivers. Most likely Caledonians trying to compensate for having to drive so far out of their way. Nice work, really appreciating the OPP.
dmorris said: “Too bad this had to happen on Harper’s watch, no matter what he does, the MSM will vilify him.”
Ipperwash happened on Chretien’s “watch”. No way can the Federal government move on this insurrection. It’s up to Ontario: Ontario’s Liberal Premier McGuinty is paralyzed; fearful of another “Ipperwash” on his watch. Nemesis is a bghftfd/bnmjh. …
The Ipperwash Inquiry – Home Page [Liberal McGuinty] Government of Ontario on … and report on events surrounding the death of Dudley George, who was shot in 1995 …
ipperwashinquiry.ca
maz2; Every day this goes on increases the chances of a repeat of the Dudley George episode.
Tempers are flaring.
McGuinty has to show some leadership or his worst case scenario will happen.
BT: Do the Six Nations usually vote Liberal?
“Leasa” seems to be incoherent. Note time posted by “Leasa”. …
Subject: McGuinty, where’s your balls?
Author:
Leasa
Time to request the army. Unlike these welfare drunken bums, we’ve worked hard and paid our taxes. This outage is terrorism…don’t we have laws against that? What’s the difference if a plane took out the transformers or these criminals?
Radio news just said that they are trying to ‘negotiate’ to let the hydro crews in to fix the damage but unlikely to happen soon, may be days. So, who’s going to pay for my loss? My crops/frozen stock are not insurable. If we don’t get the power back on P.D.Q. it will cost me over 100k.
I’m so pissed right now…I don’t know if my ramblings are coherant. L …
Date Posted: 15:44:19 05/22/06 Mon
In reply to: Leasa ‘s message, “Natives take out power!” on 15:34:15 05/22/06 Mon
The comments are from a site where each message has a posting time inserted automatically and the clock is out of whack.
Nice to know the OPP are enforcing the law in Caledonia…speed laws that is. I’ve always been a supporter of our police. This doesn’t sit right.Who is calling the shots down there? They have already taken any respect and authority away from the mayor. And Peterson said the barricades came down as a gesture of trust on the part of the Natives(read…those poor Natives victimised again)Will the same Libs that called Morgan racist,call this racist? One ‘race’ destroys public property…no prob. Another ‘race’ speeds…big problem.Sound racist to me.
This is a Provincial problem. Harper has always promised to respect Provincial jurisdiction, and as we know (and are grateful for) He does just what he says he will. If it was a Federal matter, our PM would have this cleaned up by now.
I’ve been watching the standoff all day, except for a break for the Jays game and a three-inning nap (I know, sucks to be me.) and I was amazed to hear the CBC admit that BOTH sides are yelling slurs and being violent.
Thing is, if I lived in Caledonia and I was watching the main road being blockaded and even torn up by backhoes by a pack of hooligans, I;d be in the news yelling all kinds of stuff. Hell, I dont blame the non-natives for being pissed at being used as pawns in a BS Land Claim.
I just can’t figure out why the Indians get off tearing up an important road, vandalising public property, screaming racist threats, and then acting as though they were the victims of (thier word here) genocide or war of agression against the poor sweet natives. (sarcasm mine)
I think a The Honorable Sandra “Lady Churchill” Pupatello, MPP quote is in order:
“You have to write laws that can be applicable to everyone.”
http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/house_debates/36_parl/session1/L215.htm
There you go. Where’s the laws for the tribal people?
More quotes on an as-needed basis. I have 60+ pages of them.
I support the people of Caledonia on this one. Why should their lives be disrupted for over a month because the Natives have a beef with a disputed development property. Why are the Natives using the people of Caledonia as pawns by blocking the roads? Why don’t the Natives protest fairly by occupying the development property?
The beat goes on.I posted,what I believed was a simple question, on both the Caledonia site and the six nations site.If the land was leased,when does the lease expire? Guess what ,no one can answer because the land was never leased.It was SOLD.I find it truly hilarious that native spokeswoman Jennie Jameson(sp)is bemoaning the fact that whitey has blocked a road now and the O.P.P. are doing nothing.She says this is colonialism at it’s finest.WTF,have they been doing for three months.Now is the time for action,arrest everyone,both sides, who don’t get thier assaes off the highway.This protest is being closely watched by natives across the country.If the nations are compensated for thier bogus claim we may as well bring out the guns,because our laws are an ass.
I heard a radio newscast around mid-morning Calgary time.
The citizens had put up their blockade.
For me, the “you gotta be kidding moment” came when they played a clip of a native woman complaining that the citizen’s blockade was “a human rights violation”.
Mark M asked, “Why are the Natives using the people of Caledonia as pawns by blocking the roads?”
David Peterson said that the Natives have nothing against the citizens of Caledonia. They are merely “collateral damage.”
And the taxpayers of Ontario are paying him for this insight?
hypocritical, eh?
Sounds to me like our governments and police forces aren’t willing or able to hold on to their end of the pact they have with taxpayers, namely to act and defend. Sometin’ bad bound to happen.
I have full respect for private property and if the natives’ property (not yet, but soon to be ‘private’) was illegally expropriated then I support them entirely. That said, I opposed them until today, because they’ve had years to take this to the courts and haven’t. Plus, as a so-called ‘urban indian’ (the same type of Indian whose lobby group gave its support to the tories in the last election) I hate those red-taliban.
Now as for today, they took down the blockade and were physicaly attacked for it. And the police stood there.
As members of a state we all surrender our right of self-defence to the state. The state then has a moral contract with us to use force in our name. If they won’t use force to defend us, then they break this contract and we take back our right to defend ourselves.
The Ontario government has their head too far up their multi-culti a#@ to be able to effectively do their job – they should have taken down the native blockade the moment they got the injunction and then forced them to pursue their property claims by legal means. When the white blocakdes went up, they should have taken those down too. When those natives and whites were fighting on the streets – on TV today – they should have intervened and started arresting people. No individual has a right to use violence – regardless of how ‘frustrated’ they are (at least when the police are standing right there and are able to do something).
The fact that the police did just stand there means that this moral contract is broken. Those natives have a moral obligation to use force against anyone who challenges them.
This is exactly what guns are for – to defend your rights when the government is against you, or refuses to do its job. (and I’ve rarely seen a native house without an unregistered gun or rifle in it)
The best thing the Ontario government can do is to ask for the militarization of the situation to calm everybody down and separate these groups before they have cause to defend themselves and more importantly before this spreads to the truly radical (and armed) native communities.
PS – the ‘War Measures Act’ was replaced with the ‘Emergencies Act’.
Civil Liberties will wet their collective jeans if we do the correct thing, stick to fair principle, and uphold the law.
Liberals et all will claim we are acting like China. Be that as it may, the innocent deserve to have their rights protected. The blocade must be removed and debate moved to the negotiating table.
TG
“”Now as for today, they took down the blockade and were physicaly attacked for it. And the police stood there.””
That should be put the other way round. The residents of Caledonia put up a blockade and were physically attack. The Natives came toward the residents blockade, not vice versa.
The first step in resolving the dispute should be to keep the roads clear, period. Anyone blocking the roads should be incarcerated.
huge news on CBCpravda as there is no news on lactating mothers this evening.or lunatics with welfare grievances. “experts say” : “critics say” the usual blather.
from CBCpravdas website.
Loss of N.B. abortion service affects region
Last updated May 19 2006 04:24 PM ADT
CBC News
“this is exactly what guns are for,to defend the rights etc etc” is a bullshit statement.I guess by that standard the people of Calidonia can do the same to protect themselves and thier livelyhoods. Pull your head out man.
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Native protesters prepare to block Sask. highway
Last Updated May 22 2006 12:22 PM CDT
CBC News
Some members of Saskatchewan First Nations who sympathize with the blockade in Ontario say they will block a major highway near North Battleford Monday afternoon.
And that could spell trouble for holiday travellers on the Yellowhead Highway near North Battleford.
The Saskatchewan protesters, who are from First Nations in the North Battleford district, are planning to set up a blockade on both bridges crossing the North Saskatchewan River.
Thousands of vehicles heading east from Alberta and the western part of the province are expected to pass that way as the Victoria Day weekend comes to a close.
Marcia Neault of the Poundmaker Reserve says the First Nations members want to draw attention to the long-standing dispute in Caledonia, Ontario, and to First Nations land issues everywhere.
“We’re doing that in solidarity with Caledonia, and all lands that have been taken over by people that are non-Indian,” she said.
Neault said Monday morning the barricade will go ahead at North Battleford, even though the aboriginal blockade was taken down this morning in Caledonia.
Shortly after Neault made her comments, a native blockade went up again at the Ontario town.
Tensions in that town remain high, with another blockade being put in place by non-aboriginal people.
Dozens of Ontario Provincial Police have been called to the scene to keep two sides apart.
“from CBCpravdas website.
Loss of N.B. abortion service affects region
Last updated May 19 2006 04:24 PM ADT
CBC News”
Well, I don’t know how much it will affect things here in New Brunswick. The Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton was the only hospital in NB providing abortions. They are discontinuing the service. They carried out around 400 last year. People can still receive abortions at Morgenthaler’s private clinic, for a price.
I’m still mulling the first post on this subject. The Settlers are attacking the indians? Did the calidonians arrive by canoe and chase the indians off their land and built a log Cabin Wallmart? Boy, Ive got to dig out my old Canadian history book,English Edition
When residents lose frozen items because the power outage, when stores lose inventory, when another native tries to drive thru the residents, (never noticed natives being driven into) in a very expensive vehicle, there is going to bloodshed, possible death, and all out war. Good thing we are not in Iraq, if that is the way the liberals try to settle things-do nothing and it will go away. The fallout of this will last for years, if not generations. And, instead of gaining sympathy in the rest of Canada, all native groups will feel more hatred than ever before. Who do we thank for this-human rights courts, liberals, civil liberty groups, or first nation citizens who think they are above the law. Watch for a major change to the Indian Act, making them Canadians first, and making all treaties null and void. The other choice is to give them some vacant land (Hans Island comes to mind) a spear, bow and arrow, loin cloth and let them live as their ancestors did. Let each native vote which way he/she wants to live. Time to call their bluff.
Damn Natives. This is an illegal occupation of Canadian soil and the fact that nobody’s doing anything is pathetic. McGuinty’s got the smallest penis of any Liberal who has ever been in power. Why doesn’t Harper intervene?
Rob C – That is exactly what I’m saying. That’s why government inaction is so criminal. When the government fails in its responsibility to physically defend people, it forces them – all of them – to defend themselves.
If some idiot laid his hands on me, and the police just stood there – you can be certain that I’d break out my rifle before he came back. And if the same thing happened to my neighbour, I’d be sure to help him out too.
Now as for using a gun to defend my livelihood – it doesn’t seem to be something that requires the immediate use of armed force. Protecting my ass does.
The army needs to get in there and keep these people apart and start enforcing laws before people get hurt.
Looks good on Liberal Ontario.
Wow, where do I start?
David Peterson – useless typical Liberal – ’nuff said.
Human/civil rights. There are two sets in Canada. One for the taxpayer and one for the ‘aboriginal peoples’.
Residents of Caledonia – I salute you for taking a stand. This is ridiculous – particularly the power disruption.
Provicial government – (see David Peterson above)
OPP – shame
Natives! – you are a defeated people. You fought for ‘your land’ and you lost. This has happened to
many ‘civilizations’ throughout history. Get over it.
You have no right to ‘claim’ lands. You receive far more than you deserve. You should receive nothing from the taxpayer and assimilate.
Federal government – deduct all costs for power repair/road repair/bridge repair and incidental costs incurred by local residents due to the previous illegal activities from the moneys that should not be paid to aboriginal peoples but will no doubt be paid anyway.
HAHAAHAAAAA, WHAT A JOKE. LIBERAL GOVERNMENT IN ACTION. DO NOTHING, SAY NOTHING. Thing is all this inaction by the proper authorities has put the onus on the citizens to do something about it making the whole fiasco look as if it was the residents of Caledonia to blame, then the Fiberals govt can say they were intervening to keep the peace. What a bunch of hypocritical bullshit by this pansywansy Liberal government. Time for the Indians to GET OVER IT. The Settlers won the war, you lost. Get a job and quit whining. Youve gotten more than most people will get in 10 lifetimes and youve squandered it. Get over it.
CONTEXT PLEASE! I am very proud of my own Cherokee blood. My great-great grandmother was cast out of the tribe for consorting with “whites”. She was taken in by a settler family, and is now buried right beside them. I visit and decorate her grave around Memorial Day every year.
Historical atrocities were committed in the past against Indians, viewed in our modern light. The same light should shine on Indian history. What if modern Americans started scalping Mexican illegal immigrants? Why should historical and current “native” racism and double-standards be treated as something of a cultural right and ignored?
Should Indians be made to choose to live in this world or the past world? Eat or die by what you can kill by arrow/spear? Grow and crush your corn or wheat with your own hands or starve? Live in mud huts? Tame your own wild pony for transportation? Weave your cloth, sew your clothes, beat them on river rocks? Shamans delivering babies and no modern medical care?
Consider what would happen if the modern democracies denied their native populations access to electricity, motorized transportation, grocery stores, modern plumbing, manufactured clothing, the right to vote…
The current state of Liberal historical revisionism is not true to historical reality. The clock cannot be turned back, and if given the REAL choice, “natives” would not choose that life. “Natives” who do not want to live within the laws of established democratic nation-states should be shown the Iberian Straight and told to hit the road back to where THEIR ancestors came from.
The sins of the past on all sides must be measured with the same stick and FORGIVEN. We are fused together NOW. I thank God I am an American, and am eternally grateful to live in a lawful democratic society where I am free to rise to the apex of my own talents. What modern mind could not prefer self-determination and freedom to the confines of a prescribed tribal role of back-breaking labor and 40 year lifespans? Victimhood status is self-destructive. Can we get some real leadership within native communities?
Natives in this country are so use to being pandered to,they don’t know when to stop.
When it comes to upholding the law,the OPP doesn’t know where to start.
The residents of Caledonia,living under seige,still don’t know when it will all end.
Excuse my utter lack of tact,but…F*CK the
Indians.
The people of Ontario elected Liberano/Dipper governments. The responsibility lies directly with the people who elected useless people to run their governments. Next time choose differently. It is not a place for the Federal government – get the weasly Dalton out on the barricades and demand that he solve the problem that he and his ilk have created. Get some of those mealy mouthed MSM reporters from Torrana to go with him.
Part of me wants to laugh my butt off at this, and part of me is cringing. McGuinty is all macho when picking on Stafforshire terriers, but he is a tower of jello when a bunch of human malcontents (much more dangerous than dogs IMO) wreak havoc in Caledonia. What a snivelling coward. Canadians may be about to find themselves in some of the most “interesting” times since the War of 1812 and the Upper Canada rebellion. Where’s William Lyon McKenzie when you need him?
Didn’t the Mayor of Caledonia state at the outset of this debacle that the army should be called in, a statement she was roundly criticised for from all quarters.
Well now, in hindsight, it appears she was right.
I find some of the quotes in the news stories totally and amazing brainless.
What kind of negotiation can you expect when the negotiator is blaming whitie for all the problems.
David Peterson: “The behaviour on some of these folks today was not constructive,” the former Ontario premier told Canadian Press. “This situation was settled today. It was settled today, I remind you of that, and the barricade was coming down today.”
When a van tried to drive through the residents blockade and run down people prompting a fistfight.
“They’re instigating, [they’re] a bunch of irate radicals,” said Janie Jamieson, a spokeswoman for the native protesters.
Then of course this
Several native and non-native demonstrators were injured in scuffles after natives blocked the highway with an electrical transmission tower and then used two large backhoes to tear a trench across the road in front of their blockade.
A native spokesperson approached the non-native demonstrators and told them: “If you leave, we won’t dig up the land.” But they ignored him.
But they did dig up the road and had the nerve to complain about the counter blockade by the residents.
“That’s colonialism at its finest,” Jamieson told CBC News in a midday interview as natives arrived at the site, where Ontario Provincial Police officers tried to keep the peace.
“The OPP is witnessing it but nobody’s doing anything about it,” Jamieson said.
I just hope this thing is settled before the summer heat flares tempers to the boiling point.
Quotes are from the CBC newstory found on its website.
Expect leadership from Dalton McGuinty and the rest of his faceless crowd?
This standoff just goes to show that in a crisis you definitely don’t want the Peterpans of the world–I won’t grow up, I won’t grow up–Liberals of any stripe (with mediator [sic] David Peterson) in the government. These guys only know how to fleece the public and spout left-lib platitudes; it’s like feeding pablum to a teenager, who actually needs a fridge full of REAL food–in a fridge THAT WORKS.
This whole standoff is a farce and a disgrace. The Natives who have vandalized and blockaded the road should have been jailed, and quickly. They have broken Ontario laws and they should not be let off the hook. Parallel governments, different laws for some Ontarian/Canadian citizens, DON’T WORK.
Caledonia is proof of that. McGuinty had better start taking a whopping dose of hormones to grow the apparatus needed to deal with this one. I’m not holding my breath.
The MSM is reporting this as ‘young’ prople from Caladonia are the ones putting up the ‘white’ blockade. The natives are using the heavy equipment from the developer they have shut down to dig up the roads. Schools and businesses are closed because the electricity is down.
No one, to my knowledge, has mentioned where the natives are getting the hydro towers they are using for the blockade. Is that not the property of the Ontario Hydro–the same department that owns the cables etc that have been cut?
And after this the Ontario taxpayer will be held to account for all the repairs. What is wrong with this picture?
Martin’s Kelowna Accord.
Liberal Ex-PM Martin tables his private member’s bill in Parliament on Wednesday, 17 May, 2006.
Martin leaves the House.
Later the same day, the House votes re the Canadian mission to Afghanistan.
Liberal Ex-PM Martin was not in the House.
AdScam SSMartin, lobbyist, for the Chiefs.
Martin, a hug-a-thug Liberal, hugs the Chiefs.
This is the way the Liberals play. ….
Honour Kelowna accord, Martin’s bill urges
BILL CURRY
Ottawa — Liberal MP Paul Martin, the former prime minister, introduced a private member’s bill yesterday calling on the government to honour last November’s $5.1-billion Kelowna agreement for aboriginals.
“We believe it is vital that the government of Canada honour its commitment,” he told the House.
Mr. Martin’s name was picked sixth overall in a lottery this year, allowing him to be one of the first MPs to put a bill forward for a vote.
globemail
This has been going for weeks. It only now has made the top of CBCpravdas radar screen. I suppose they hoped it would go away. or maybe their agenda called for retaliation by the community of Caledonia before they felt it should be reported. that way it may appear balanced between native and non- native.
Anyone know what tribe the natives represent? are they really the locals of 200 years ago. or are they like the Woodland Cree and actually displaced other natives who may have been there 200 years ago. There are lots of “native ” groups who are not native to where they are located now.
Souix in Alberta, Cree near Edmonton.
Lawlessness is tolerated by Liberals McGuinty/Peterson et al at Caledonia.
Number of “immigrants” to Canada ordered deported, yet still at large… 35,000.
The story below is using the words “detention centre”. Those two words mask/hide the real place of detention. OK to shout out the word? JAIL.
Is there a jail in Caledonia? There is one in Ottawa for farmers. …
Van Hauves Remain in Detention Centre
Josh Pringle
Monday, May 22, 2006
Michel Van Hauve says if Canada Border Services wants to send him to Belgium, put him on a plane.
The Navan farmer says he’s ready to give up his deportation fight instead of spending his days being held in an Ottawa detention centre.
Michel Van Hauve and his son are being held in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre after being arrested by Ottawa Police on Saturday.
The two were pulled over by police during a routine traffic stop when officers discovered an outstanding warrant had been issued.
The Van Hauves have been hiding on and off since January while fighting a deportation order to their native Belgium. … cfra.com
The natives have already fought the battle over this land in court – and lost. The land was sold by the Six Nations in 1841. This has been upheld in court decisions over the past several years. Check out http://www.citizensofcaledonia.ca where there are copies of all of the historical documents, not to mention various court orders and injunctions that are not being enforced by the OPP or our goverment.
While I don’t condone violence, it’s not hard to see that when the authorities let one group get away with breaking the law, to the detriment of another group, that lawlessness will result.
Harris was embroiled in a scandal over Ipperwash because he basically told the OPP to do their jobs and enforce the law. It now appears that McGuinty (or someone in his government) has told them to do the opposite in this case.
I have relatives living in Caledonia, there is so much going on that the MSM has completely ignored. Anyone who speaks out at all against the natives occupation gets bombarded with e-mail and phone threats. Natives have gone door to door telling people that they better be ready to get out in 30 days because the land is going to be theirs. And so on.
This situation has the potential to have a huge effect on hundreds of thousands of Ontario residents directly, and all Canadians eventually. The natives want to turn the clock back to the orignal Haldiman land grant in the 18th century that gave them all land for 6 miles either side of the Grand River. Have a look at a map – that is a huge area, much of it heavily populated. And, then, what is to stop natives across the country from occupying land their ancestors sold and demanding the same treatment?
Our governments must stop this. Unfortunately this is a provincial matter – I believe that unless McGuinty specifically asks for Federal assistance, there is not much the Harper government can do.