Barriere Lake opposing mining on territory
Protestors were out in downtown Montreal Tuesday.
Protestors were out in downtown Montreal Tuesday.
Members of Barriere Lake are in Ottawa once again.
The NDP Monday backed calls to Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan to set up a fact-finding mission to a small Quebec Algonquin community caught in a leadership vacuum since the imposition of an Indian Act band council earlier this year.
The newly acclaimed chief of a small northern Algonquin community is expected to reject the position later today in protest over Indian Affairs’ decision to impose a band council under rarely used Indian Act powers, his father claims.