- Ontario's motion to have the caution lifted will be heard by
provincial court on April 12 at 10 a.m. at Osgoode Hall in Toronto
- the negative vote by Temagami Indian Band was not the "final nail
in the coffin of a proposed negotiated settlement of their 110-
township land claim"; as far as is publicly known, Ontario has not
withdrawn the offer, and so no conclusion is final; it may be true
tha the stage is being set for confontation, legal or otherwise,
but that could only be speculation on the reporter's part
- George Lefebvre says "There is all the potential in the world to
hit (a Toronto judge) who is not conversant" with Native land claim
issue"; that could be - it could also be that there is some
possibility of "hitting" a judge who has not been exposed to the
constant barrage of negative and racist media coverage, or who is
not on a first name basis with any number of personalities in the
region who are _making_ the negative and racist remarks the media
use to provide that coverage
- the Supreme Court ruled against their (the TAA) land claim in
1991, but the Supreme Court also said that fiduciary obligations
had not been met, but were being negotiated through the treaty
process; seems reasonable to think that the caution would remain in
place until those obligations had been met, and even more so given
that Ontario, in a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Teme
Augama Anisnabai, committed to a joint process to remove the
caution _following_ a treaty agreement