Mailing address:
3536 - 106 Street
Edmonton, AB T6J 1A4
403-436-5652
FAX: 403-437-0719
September 25, 1992
On July 16, 1992, the Lubicon Settlement Commission of Review issued a
"status report" indicating that both levels of Canadian Government were
refusing to appear before the Commission. The Commission statement said
the Federal Government claimed that it couldn't appear because "it was
subject to an agreement between itself and the Lubicon people that
provided that it would not discuss the negotiations or its position with
any other party". However, the Commission statement said, "The Lubicon
people advise there was no such agreement and that (the Lubicon people)
would welcome the Federal Government's appearance before the Commission".
Under these circumstances, the Commission statement said, the Commission
was making public the questions which it would like representatives of
the Federal Government to answer. (A copy of the Commission statement
including questions for the Federal Government is attached.)
The next day a Special Assistant to Federal Indian Affairs Minister named
Doug Hoover phoned the Lubicon office in Little Buffalo Lake and said
that Mr. Siddon would like to speak to Chief Ominayak on an urgent basis.
Chief Ominayak was out of the office and unavailable. Mr. Hoover
therefore left a phone number where the Chief could reach Mr. Siddon
until midnight of that same day. (It's noteworthy that the last time Mr.
Siddon phoned urgently seeking to talk with the Chief was immediately
following a Lubicon appearance before the Lubicon Settlement Commission -
- an appearance which Mr. Siddon's then Deputy Minister Harry Swain had
unsuccessfully tried to prevent with a threat "to pull the plug" on
negotiations if the Lubicons appeared.)
While Mr. Hoover was trying to contact the Chief through the Lubicon
office Mr. Siddon's Regional Director General in Alberta Garry Wouters
was simultaneously trying to arrange a meeting between Mr. Siddon and the
Chief through Lubicon negotiator Terry Munro. Mr. Munro reached Chief
Ominayak at a meeting in Edmonton and told the Chief that Mr. Siddon
wanted to personally present the Chief with the long promised Federal
Government reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals. Mr. Munro told the
Chief that he'd seen "a preview" of the Federal Government's so-called
reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals and that "it doesn't look any
different from the earlier stuff". Chief Ominayak told Mr. Munro that
he'd have to think about whether he wanted to again serve as a prop in
one of Mr. Siddon's staged propaganda events designed purely and simply
to create the false impression of progress in negotiations.
Mr. Siddon reached Chief Ominayak at home by phone late in the evening on
July 22nd. In addition to presenting the Chief with the Federal
Government's long promised reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals, Mr.
Siddon said, he wanted to personally discuss several other important
matters with the Chief. Under these circumstances the Chief agreed to
meet with Mr. Siddon in Edmonton on July 24th at 10 A.M. in the morning.
(The sole purpose of the meeting turned out to be public presentation of
certain documents for propaganda purposes -- there were no "other
important matters" which Mr. Siddon wanted to personally discuss with the
Chief.)
As in the case of earlier meetings between Mr. Siddon and the Chief Mr.
Siddon specifically asked the Chief that the media not be advised of the
July 24th meeting. Mr. Siddon told the Chief that he didn't want "any
big media event." Mr. Siddon then again promptly breached his own
meeting pre-condition by having his PR people "background" selected media
on both the up-coming meeting and the supposedly new and improved offer
which he would be presenting to the Chief. (Inside sources advise that
Federal representatives fear Chief Ominayak's "media skills" and
therefore always seek to give Mr. Siddon an edge by trying to keep the
Chief away from the media while simultaneously working with the media
themselves. By now one would think that this transparent and repeatedly
employed tactic on Mr. Siddon's part would be totally discredited and
ineffectual but to some extent it still does produce the kind of one-
sided news coverage sought by Federal representatives -- especially when
Federal representatives work with selected reporters who aren't too smart
or very professional about checking the facts and covering both sides of
the story. It's also of course a tactic which makes very clear that Mr.
Siddon is far more interested in creating self-serving public illusions
than dealing seriously with the Lubicon people, since the unavoidable
effect of such a tactic upon negotiations is to further poison the
relationship between the Federal Government and the Lubicons by again
underscoring the fact that the Lubicons simply can't believe anything
said by representatives of the Canadian Federal Government.)
The morning of July 24th Mr. Siddon's Edmonton "Communications Manager"
Wayne Hanna phoned selected media and set the stage for the up-coming
meeting. Wayne Hanna is another of those supposedly apolitical Canadian
civil servants apparently prepared to say or do anything in hopes of
receiving a pat on the head from their political bosses -- the same bunch
that whines and complains like hell whenever they're publicly called to
account for the overtly political things they say and do because they're
supposedly apolitical civil servants.
When the Chief arrived for the supposedly private, confidential meeting
with Mr. Siddon he was met with a solid wall of media photographers
arranged by Mr. Hanna to publicly record Mr. Siddon's presentation of the
Federal Government's supposedly new and improved Lubicon settlement
offer. The resulting photograph of Mr. Siddon making the presentation to
Chief Ominayak appeared on the front page of the Edmonton Journal the
following morning along with a story by Edmonton Journal reporter Jack
Danylchuk headlined (inaccurately) "Siddon Sweetens Proposal to
Lubicons".
During the public presentation of the Federal Government's so-called
reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals Mr. Siddon was deliberately low-
key, implying more than he actually said. It was left to Mr. Hanna to
scamper around the edge of things making sure that Mr. Siddon's sly
insinuations and innuendos were given the intended slant. The
purposefully up-beat mood thereby created became the main story and the
Chief's understandably wary reaction to documents which he had yet to
read was effectively submerged in the carefully orchestrated media
hoopla.
Following the pre-arranged public presentation of the documents and
related "photo opportunity" the media were predictably excused and Mr.
Siddon verbally summarized the documents presented. The
documents which Mr. Siddon presented to the Chief consisted of:
- a cover letter to the Chief from Mr. Siddon obviously prepared
primarily for later public release which claimed falsely that
the supposedly new and improved Federal offer "amounts to more
than $73 million" (including a $10.5 million "contribution"
from the Alberta Provincial Government supposedly to cover the
cost of "giving" the Lubicons a tiny fraction of their own
traditional lands for reserve purposes);
- a document also obviously prepared primarily for later public
release entitled "Comparison of Federal (1989) Offer (and the)
Federal (1992) Offer" which purports to compare the dollar
value of the old so-called "take-it-or-leave-it" offer with the
supposedly new and improved Federal offer but which in fact
purposefully exaggerates the dollar value of the supposedly new
and improved offer by, among other things, deliberately failing
to take properly into account the significant difference in
value between 1988 and 1992 dollars;
- a document entitled "Lubicon Lake Band Proposal/Federal
Response" which, rather than truly responding to Lubicon
settlement proposals with serious counter proposals as Mr.
Siddon has repeatedly promised to do, essentially only displays
Lubicon proposals on one side of the page and items from the
Federal Government's 1989 "take-it-or-leave-it" offer on the
other side of the page.
(A copy of the cover letter is available as an addendum. The so-called
"Comparison" document is attached to the hardcopy mailout ony since its tables
are virtually impossible to reproduce in the strait e-mail text format. The
so-called "Federal Response" document is over 100 pages long and consequently
isn't attached but is available upon request.)
On August 4th a Departmental official phoned and informally asked about
Lubicon reaction to the documents which Mr. Siddon had presented to the
Chief on July 24th. He was told that the documents which Mr. Siddon had
presented didn't fool anybody. Simply applying standard Present Value
Tables to calculate the current value of 1988 dollars, he was told, the
supposedly new and improved Federal offer represents a $8.7 million
decrease from the unacceptable 1989 "take-it-or-leave-it" offer rather
than the $8.5 million dollar increase claimed in the so-called
"comparison" document.
Clearly anticipating the Lubicon reaction to the supposedly new and
improved "offer" the Departmental official advised that the Federal
Government intended to challenge Lubicon present dollar value
calculations by claiming an annual inflation rate in Canada of only one
per cent over the last three years. He was told to challenge away --
that annual inflation in Canada over the last three years had in fact
been running at about 6% and that properly calculating the value of 1988
dollars in 1992 dollars technically involved more than just adjusting
annually for inflation.
On August 6th Chief Ominayak publicly released a letter which he'd sent
to Mr. Siddon reacting to the documents which Mr. Siddon had publicly
presented to the Chief on July 24th. In his August 6th letter the Chief
characterized the supposedly new and improved offer as little more than a
repackaged version of the 1989 "take-it-or-leave-it" offer again with "no
adequate provision for the Lubicon people to once again achieve social,
political and economic self-sufficiency". A copy of the Chief's August
6th letter to Mr. Siddon is attached.
On August 9th Mr. Siddon's Regional Director General in Alberta Garry
Wouters again phoned Lubicon negotiator Terry Munro trying to arrange
another supposedly "private, confidential, don't tell the media" meeting
for Mr. Siddon with the Chief -- this time at the Calgary airport.
Reflecting upon the solid wall of media photographers waiting for him
when he arrived for the last supposedly "private, confidential, don't
tell the media" meeting with Mr. Siddon, Chief Ominayak wearily told
Terry Munro that he'd "think about it".
On Tuesday, August 11th, Mr. Siddon proceeded with an obviously pre-
planned media event at the Calgary airport. The Chief was not in
attendance but Mr. Siddon told reporters that he hoped to meet or talk
with the Chief on August 13th. No one talked to the Chief about the
possibility of a meeting with Mr. Siddon on Thursday -- either before or
after Mr. Siddon's airport press conference.
At the August 11th press conference Mr. Siddon released the by now
predictable barrage of pre-prepared propaganda materials including:
- a supposed "History of the Lubicon Lake Claim" containing a
series of long since discredited distortions,
misrepresentations and outright lies regarding the historic
struggle of the Lubicon people for recognition of Lubicon land
rights. (A copy of the so-called "History" is attached. A
point-by-point refutation of that "history" is not included,
since related documentation is voluminous and these same points
have been refuted publicly many times. Documentation refuting
specific Federal Government lies, distortions and
misrepresentations contained in this so-called "history" is
however available upon request.)
- supposed "Details Respecting 1992 Federal Offer to Lubicon Lake
Nation" (Copy attached. Much of what's contained in this
document is addressed in Chief Ominayak's August 6th letter.
Some of it is inconsistent with the Chief's August 6th letter,
since some of what's said in this "Details" document is also
inconsistent with what's actually said in the so-called new and
improved "offer". The "Details" document, for example, claims
that the Federal Government agrees that all persons on the
Lubicon determined membership list are entitled to adhere to
Treaty 8 and become a beneficiary of the settlement agreement,
while the so-called new and improved "offer" explicitly goes
back to the membership position maintained by the Federal
Government prior to December of 1988 that "the Band and Canada
must jointly verify who on the Band's membership list is
eligible to participate in the adhesion".)
- a prepared press statement quoting Mr. Siddon as being
"surprised and disappointed by Lubicon rejection" of the so-
called new and improved Federal "offer". In this statement Mr.
Siddon claims that the offer "is based on lengthy, extensive
negotiations between Chief Ominayak and me"; that Federal
representatives "have had every reason to believe we had worked
out the basis for a negotiated settlement together (with
Lubicon representatives)"; and, incredibly, that the supposedly
new and improved Federal offer "goes significantly beyond
previous offers and responds in virtually every way to the
proposal put forward by the Lubicon". (A copy of this
remarkable example of "big lie" propaganda technique is
attached.)
During the press conference itself Mr. Siddon then concentrated on four
main points, none of them truthful, but each of which had obviously been
carefully calculated to create and reinforce a certain desired public
illusion.
First Mr. Siddon repeatedly expressed incongruous surprise and puzzlement
over Lubicon rejection of the supposedly new and improved Federal offer
claiming that "The Chief's response is totally out of context with the
discussions we had and the understanding I thought we had reached".
(This claim on Mr. Siddon's part is demonstrably untrue. See, for
example, the June 24, 1992 mail-out recording the June 5th community
meeting in Little Buffalo Lake between Mr. Siddon and Chief Ominayak.)
Secondly Mr. Siddon insisted that "This (offer) is at the top end of any
offer to any First Nation in Canada" and "exceeds the Federal
Government's (take-it-or-leave-it) offer by almost $8.5 million". (Again
this claim by Mr. Siddon is untrue. See the January 20, 1991 mail-out for
comparison of contemporary settlement agreements and Chief Ominayak's
August 6th letter regarding Mr. Siddon's claim that the so-called new and
improved offer "exceeds the Federal Government's (take-it-or-leave-it)
offer by almost $8.5 million".)
Thirdly Mr. Siddon denied that the Federal Government had dramatically
exaggerated the value of the supposedly new and improved offer by failing
to properly take into account the difference in value between 1988 and
1992 dollars. He claimed that "inflation has been factored into
community construction costs". And, inexplicably and in spite of the fact
that it is he who created the inflation issue by deliberately using the
difference in value between 1988 and 1992 dollars to jack-up the supposed
value of the so-called new and improved offer, Mr. Siddon tried to
dismiss Lubicon charges that he'd artificially inflated the numbers by
saying that he "(found) the debate about indexing irrelevant because we
have to know the membership". (Attachments to the attached "Details"
document state that a factor of 19% was applied to construction costs,
citing housing construction costs since 1988 as an example. However when
one checks this statement against the dollar increases actually shown in
the supposedly new and improved "offer", the only item with a 19%
increase is "site clearing". "Housing" shows an increase of only 3% and
overall construction costs show an increase of only 12%. By way of
comparison Present (Dollar) Value tables originally introduced into the
negotiations by Provincial representatives to calculate the current value
of 1988 dollars -- and since confirmed as accurate by independent
financial experts -- show a cumulative differential in the value of the
Canadian dollar from 1988 to 1992 of 29 1/2%.)
Lastly Mr. Siddon continued the transparent pretence which he'd
introduced during the June 5th meeting in Little Buffalo Lake that the
membership issue is one of how many Lubicons exist, not, as is
demonstrably the case, how many Lubicons the Federal Government is
prepared to recognize as being "entitled" to adhere to Treaty 8. (The
question of who determines membership is another of those long-standing
issues between the Lubicons and the Federal Government about which
voluminous documentation is available upon request for anyone not
familiar with how the Canadian Government has historically used the
membership issue to tear aboriginal societies asunder.)
On August 16th a group of Lubicon women issued an open letter to Mr.
Siddon reacting to the Federal Government's supposedly new and improved
"offer" and inviting Mr. Siddon to bring his family and spend a week in
the Lubicon community of Little Buffalo Lake so that he could experience
Lubicon living conditions first hand. On August 21st Mr. Siddon released
a prepared statement responding to the letter from the Lubicon women in
which he claimed that he shared the objectives of the Lubicon women for
decent living conditions and a future for their children and urging them
to convince Chief Ominayak to return to the negotiating table. (In fact
the Lubicons had never left the negotiating table and Mr. Siddon knew it.
On August 7th Mr. Siddon's Alberta Regional Director of Indian Affairs
Garry Wouters contacted the Lubicon office and asked, in light of the
Chief's August 6th letter, if Lubicon negotiators would be attending a
negotiating session planned for the following Monday. It was pointed out
to Mr. Wouters that the Lubicons hadn't withdrawn from the negotiating
table but had only publicly set the record straight on a so-called
"offer" which Mr. Siddon and his PR people had presented publicly and
publicly misrepresented.)
On August 27th Mr. Siddon phoned Chief Ominayak and proposed a meeting in
Edmonton on September 4th to discuss putting negotiations "back on
track". Chief Ominayak agreed to meet Mr. Siddon on September 4th to
discuss putting negotiations "back on track". Immediately following his
telephone conversation with the Chief Mr. Siddon's Alberta
"Communications Manager" Wayne Hanna issued an obviously pre-prepared
"media advisory" on the September 4th meeting stating that "The purpose
of the meeting is to resume negotiations aimed at reaching an early
settlement of the Lubicon Lake Nation land claim". (On September 3rd Mr.
Hanna issued a second "media advisory" regarding the September 4th
meeting, underscoring Mr. Siddon's obvious desire to reinforce the public
impression that he's working very hard and effectively to settle Lubicon
land rights.)
Prior to meeting with the Chief on September 4th Mr. Siddon met with a
delegation of Lubicon women. He told the Lubicon women that "The problem
is that the Chief is holding up settlement by rejecting the Government's
generous offer".
The Lubicon women told Mr. Siddon that they knew better. They told him
that they weren't stupid. They told him that they'd read the
Government's so-called "generous offer" and that "it's worse than the
take-it-or-leave-it offer". They told him that "the Government is the
only one holding up settlement". They told him that "The issue of
control over membership is non-negotiable". And they told him to "stop
playing media games with us and with the public".
According to Maggie Auger, spokesperson for the Lubicon women, Mr. Siddon
"blew his top" when the women refused to buy the deliberately divisive
snake oil he was trying to peddle. When the women questioned Mr.
Siddon's various claims about the offer, Mrs. Auger said, he referred to
one member of the group as "that damn woman" and told the group
collectively that they were "full of bullshit". It was the first meeting
the Lubicon women had with the Canadian Indian Affairs Minister and it
was an eye-opener for them. They were shocked and offended by both Mr.
Siddon's language and his obvious lack of respect for them and their
efforts to explain to him the problems being faced by the Lubicon people
as a direct result of the Federal Government's refusal to negotiate a
fair and equitable settlement of Lubicon land rights. Following the
meeting Mrs. Auger told reporters "(Mr. Siddon) was disrespectful and
used coarse and vulgar language with our women and elders".
The main topic of discussion during Mr. Siddon's subsequent meeting with
Chief Ominayak was membership. Mr. Siddon insisted that the Federal
Government has to "verify who on the Lubicon membership list is entitled
to adhere to treaty (and consequently participate in a settlement
agreement)". He claimed inexplicably that the membership issue which had
supposedly been settled in December of 1988 had to be re-opened because
of aboriginal self-government provisions in new Canadian constitutional
proposals. (There are no aboriginal self-government provisions in new
constitutional proposals which by any stretch of the imagination would
require re-opening of the Lubicon membership issue.)
Chief Ominayak responded by reiterating the historic Lubicon position
that the Lubicon people would determine their own membership for all
purposes using Lubicon-determined membership rules. He pointed out to
Mr. Siddon that the Federal Government had reviewed and accepted Lubicon
membership rules as long ago as March of 1986. He reminded Mr. Siddon
that Federal negotiators had agreed in December of 1988 that all of the
people on the Lubicon determined membership list were qualified to adhere
to Treaty 8 and thereby become entitled to participate in any settlement
agreement as well as receive the benefits of Treaty status. The Chief
told Mr. Siddon that "There's never going to be a settlement if we're
going to keep going back on agreements already made".
Reacting to strong public statements made by the Chief following the
meeting that the Lubicon people will never accept having someone else
determine Lubicon membership, Mr. Siddon reverted to his earlier public
pretence that the membership issue is only one of how many Lubicons
exist, not Government determination of which Lubicons qualify to
participate in a settlement agreement. Mr. Siddon told reporters that he
didn't "see any difficulty in accepting the Chief's proposals on how the
membership would be defined and what forms of restriction would apply".
He reassuringly said "I don't think we are very far apart". He said
cryptically "The question of numbers is one where I'm not anxious for an
immediate result". He concluded ominously that the question of
membership "is not a deal-breaker at this point". (Mr. Siddon didn't
explain the apparent contradiction between these comments and the
statements he'd made in his earlier meeting with the Chief; nor the
apparent contradiction between these comments and the wording contained
in the so-called new and improved offer; nor why there would be any
outstanding membership issue at all if the Federal Government truly
accepts Lubicon determination of Lubicon membership -- excepting perhaps
only Federal officials satisfying themselves that people on the Lubicon
membership list really meet Lubicon membership criteria. Presumably Mr.
Siddon is just using deliberately confusing phraseology in order to
simultaneously deflect predictable political criticism of an indefensible
Federal Government position while trying to keep the Lubicons under
maximum pressure to make concessions in areas other than membership,
since if he has any brains at all he's got to know that control over
Lubicon membership is "non-negotiable".)
It is thus now nearly a full year since the boycott of Daishowa paper
products convinced Mr. Siddon to ask Chief Ominayak for a "private,
confidential, don't tell the media" meeting to discuss the resumption of
Lubicon land negotiations. That meeting with the Chief took place last
November 1st shortly after Mr. Siddon discussed it with the Editorial
Board of the Edmonton Journal contrary to Mr. Siddon's own meeting pre-
condition that the media were not to be informed. During his meeting
with the Editorial Board Mr. Siddon falsely suggested that the Chief had
asked for the up-coming meeting and told the Editorial Board that he
planned to tell the Chief that the so-called "take-it-or-leave-it" offer
tabled by the Federal Government in January of 1989 wouldn't be changed
except to be reduced to take into account creation of the Woodland Cree
and perhaps the new Loon River Band.
Informed prior to their subsequent meeting about Mr. Siddon's comments to
the Editorial Board of the Edmonton Journal, and especially given Mr.
Siddon's comments that the Federal Government's unacceptable "take-it-or-
leave-it" offer was in effect non-negotiable, Chief Ominayak asked Mr.
Siddon why Mr. Siddon had requested a meeting supposedly to discuss
resumption of negotiations. Mr. Siddon pleaded a combination of
ignorance and innocence and indicated that all he wanted to do was try
and re-start negotiations. Chief Ominayak consequently gave Mr. Siddon a
comprehensive set of Lubicon settlement proposals and asked for a
detailed reaction from Mr. Siddon in order to see if there was anything
to talk about. Mr. Siddon promised to provide the requested detailed
reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals.
Eleven months later the Lubicon people still don't have the detailed
reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals first promised by Mr. Siddon
last November 1st, then promised again by Mr. Siddon on February 14th,
then promised again by Mr. Siddon on February 21st, then promised again
by Mr. Siddon on June 5th. As close as Federal officials have come to
providing the promised detailed reaction to Lubicon settlement proposals
is the document presented to Chief Ominayak by Mr. Siddon on July 24th
which essentially only displays Lubicon settlement proposals on one side
of the page and items from the Federal Government's 1989 "take-it-or-
leave-it" offer on the other side of the page. What the Lubicon people
have rather received from Federal negotiators during the past 11 months
is three variously packaged versions of the Federal Government's 1989 so-
called "take-it-or-leave-it" offer presented in the context of an
increasingly elaborate Federal Government propaganda campaign explicitly
designed to falsely portray these three variously packaged versions of
the 1989 "take-it-or-leave-it" offer as representing progress and
negotiations as close to successful completion. This increasingly
elaborate Federal Government propaganda campaign has in turn been
skilfully used by Daishowa and the Federal Government to deflect
political criticism and to undercut the boycott of Daishowa paper
products. (Daishowa's Vice President and General Manager in Canada Tom
Hamaoka has gone so far as to claim credit for the negotiations and to
tell people that "(Daishowa) sources indicate that the Lubicons are very
encouraged with the proposals tabled to date and that there is
expectation of settlement sometime this year".)
Sadly all that's really happened during the last 11 months is that the
Lubicon people have moved 11 months closer to extinction -- which seems
to be the Federal Government's real objective in all of this. No
discernable progress has been made around the negotiating table toward
settlement of Lubicon land rights; gas and oil exploitation activity on
unceded Lubicon lands is proceeding apace; Daishowa is again poised to
start clear-cutting Lubicon trees as soon as the ground freezes (likely
towards the end of October), and 13 key Lubicons -- the very people upon
whom the Lubicons must depend to defend them on the ground -- will
shortly be facing criminal prosecution with related jail terms of up to
50 years each for allegedly burning out a Daishowa-related logging camp
which had moved into unceded Lubicon territory and commenced clear-
cutting operations.
The boycott of Daishowa paper products should consequently continue and
if possible be accelerated until Daishowa publicly agrees to stay out of
the unceded Lubicon territory pending a settlement of Lubicon land rights
and negotiation of an agreement between Daishowa and the Lubicon people
respecting Lubicon wildlife and environmental concerns. People should
continue insisting that representatives of both levels of Canadian
Government appear before the Lubicon Settlement Commission and publicly
answer questions about their position on the issues and just exactly what
they think they're doing with this transparent propaganda campaign. And
people should let both Mr. Siddon and Canadian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney know that they're not deceived by the Federal Government's
transparent propaganda campaign but are rather madder than hell at
Government efforts to deceive them and don't intend to take it any more.
(The following is a list of attachments provided with the original hardcopy
mailout package. Gary will eventually name the three files, post them
to TAMVM1, and then make the net aware of how to retrieve them.)
[ Indeed I shall, as soon as possible. --Gary ]
Attachments File 1:
Attachment #1: LUBICON SETTLEMENT COMMISSION OF REVIEW,
STATUS REPORT (July 16, 1992)
Attachment #2: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (5:30 P.M.)
Thursday, July 23, 1992
Attachment #3: July 24, 1992, Tom Siddon letter to Chief Bernard Ominayak
Attachment #4: July 24, 1992, Federal Government document entitled
"Comparison of Federal (1989) Offer, Federal (1992) Offer"
Attachment #5: Transcript of CFRN TV News Broadcast (6:00 P.M.)
Friday, July 24, 1992
Attachment #6: Transcript of CKUA Radio News Broadcast (12:00 Noon)
Friday, July 24, 1992
Attachment #7: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (5:30 P.M.)
Friday, July 24, 1992
Attachment #8: Transcript of ITV News Broadcast (10:00 P.M.)
Friday, July 24, 1992
Attachment #9: July 25, 1992, Edmonton Journal article
Attachment #10: July 28, 1992, Edmonton Journal Editorial
Attachment #11: July 30, 1992, Edmonton Journal article
Attachment #12: August 03, 1992, Windspeaker article
Attachments File 2:
Attachment #13: August 6, 1992, letter to Tom Siddon from Chief Bernard
Ominayak
Attachment #14: August 06, 1992, Statement of Lubicon Lake Women to Lubicon
Settlement Commission of Review
Attachment #15: Transcript of CKUA Radio News Broadcast (5:15 P.M.)
Thursday, August 6, 1992
Attachment #16: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (5:30 P.M.)
Thursday, August 6, 1992
Attachment #17: August 07, 1992, Edmonton Journal article
Attachment #18: August 1992 Alberta Native News article
Attachment #19: GOVERNMENT OF CANADA INFORMATION, August 1992
Attachment #20: GOVERNMENT OF CANADA INFORMATION, August 11, 1992
Attachments File 3:
Attachment #21: August 07, 1992, Government of Canada Communiqu
Attachment #22: August 12, 1992, Edmonton Journal article
Attachment #23: DAILY CLIPPING SERVICE, REGIONAL ISSUES, August 12, 1992
Attachment #24: August 16, 1992, letter from the Women of the Lubicon Lake
Indian Nation to Federal Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon
Attachment #25: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (7:30 A.M.)
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
Attachment #26: August 17, 1992, letter from Calgary resident Elleonora Jilek
to Federal Minister Tom Siddon
Attachment #27: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (6:30 A.M.)
Friday, August 21, 1992
Attachment #28: August 27, 1992, Federal Government "Media Advisory"
Attachment #29: September 03, 1992, letter to the Editor of the Edmonton
Journal from Federal Minister Tom Siddon
Attachment #30: September 03, 1992, Federal Government "Media Advisory"
Attachment #31: September 04, 1992, Edmonton Sun article
Attachment #32: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (7:30 A.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #33: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (4:30 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #34: Transcript of CKUA Radio News Broadcast (5:15 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #35: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (5:30 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #36: Transcript of CFRN TV News Broadcast (6:00 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #37: Transcript of CP News Report (6:47 P.M.)
Friday, September 04, 1992
Attachment #38: Transcript of CBC TV News Broadcast (9:00 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #39: Transcript of ITV News Broadcast (10:00 P.M.)
Friday, September 4, 1992
Attachment #40: September 22, 1992, Letter from Red Deer resident John Hamer
to the Edmonton Journal
Attachment #41: September 22, 1992, Letter from Edmonton resident Hermann
Kirchmeir to the Edmonton Journal