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The Ontario Superior Court began hearing evidence Oct. 5 in Grassy Narrows’ case against logging on its traditional lands. Grassy Narrows is challenging Ontario’s right to approve industrial logging that comes in conflict with its constitutionally guaranteed Treaty Rights. Grassy Narrows has been in the courts for almost a decade fighting to protect Treaty 3, which was signed by the Government of Canada in 1873.
The trial is expected to last for 75 days.
“We have never given our consent to clear-cut logging, and we have never given up our right to live off this land, but the government and the corporations choose to ignore this,” said Grassy Narrows representative Joseph Fobister. “The logging is destroying a way of life for our people, and we cannot allow that.”
Coverage from Wawatay is here. Coverage from the Canadian Press can be found here.