The Tragic Wounding of Ontario’s Mining Industry
Illustrating Many Falsities and Harms of a Typical, Investment and Job-Killing, Indigenous, Treaty area “Consult and Accommodate” Claim
This December 30th, 2023 article, https://apple.news/AMqknzULMQiGrqZfq_6OL1g ,summarizes the reality that Indian bands have, or at least reasonably believe they have, a legal veto over any resource development project proposed for anywhere near where they are located. It illustrates the legal and moral hopelessness of the situation of legitimate resource proponents, especially the smaller ones, trying to get their projects off (or out of ) the ground, such as Michael Malouf of Geraldton, who was completely shut down by the Ginoogaming band and their big-city lawyers. As the below saga indicates, in Ontario, the governments have completely abandoned and betrayed such job and investment- creating people like Mr. Malouf in favour of sucking up to such selfish, mean-spirited, job and investment-killers like the Ginoogaming band.
Ginoogaming First Nation, claiming that Quaternary’s mining exploration permit would harm their “sacred land”, sues Quaternary and Ontario for an injunction preventing Quaternary from exploring its mining claims.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice Rules in Favour of Ginoogaming: In a Decision That Infantilizes Ginoogaming Members, the Court Rules That Because of Their Anishinaabe Culture They Couldn’t Read and Properly Comprehend Letters and Emails and Therefore They Were Not Properly Consulted Before the Quaternary Mining Exploration Permit Was Issued.
PART 3
THE INDIGENOUS VETO LAWS –TURNING NEIGHBOURS INTO STRANGERS– posted September 11, 2023
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In August of 2024 Ginoogaming, along with several other Treaty 9 bands, relying on the Restoule Supreme Court decision and UNDRIP, (with an admiring glance at the B.C. Supreme Court UNDRIP/Aboriginal title decision) sued Ontario for a declaration that First Nations have to be consulted and accommodated before a prospector even stakes a claim -in effect demanding a legal veto over Ontario’s entire mining industry.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/first-nations-mining-act-court-application-1.7292351
