[The omnipotent middle finger of the market finds a hungry hole in the fickle rule of law. Once again the courts are used to turn the people into liars and our allies into criminals. -jlt]
| In 2005 and 2006 Platinex attempted to explore and exploit land that, according to "Treaty 9," signed in 1929, belongs to KI First Nation. KI says the Mining Act is unconstitutional, bypassing the 'duty to consult,' and that mining on their land would threaten the First Nation's survival by destroying hunting and fishing habitats. [Aboriginal rights are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 (I, 25 and II, 35).] |
TORONTO, ONTARIO–On March 18, 2008, Ontario Superior Court Judge Patrick Smith sentenced Chief Donny Morris and six other council members from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, a community of about 1,200 people in northern Ontario, to six months in jail for "contempt of court."
TORONTO, ONTARIO–On March 18, 2008, Ontario Superior Court Judge Patrick Smith sentenced Chief Donny Morris and six other council members from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, a community of about 1,200 people in northern Ontario, to six months in jail for "contempt of court."
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