Could owe trillions?

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Sept 24

RE: We’re not asking to break Canada. News item The Hamilton Spectator 28 Sept 24

Those who, over the years, have followed closely the land disputes raised by members of the Six Nations, the attacks in bad faith on two different property developments in Caledonia, and have researched deeply the so-called Nanfan Treaty know that there is no merit whatsoever in the land claim now before the courts and reported on in the Spectator article.

But this is not the place to discuss why. At no cost to themselves, Six Nations can throw this lawsuit and then another at Canada, for this reason or that, and Canada cannot afford to lose even once. Any court judge, for reasons having nothing to do with the law, can decide that he, in his superior virtue, thinks that Canada ought to give the Indians even more money.

For all the spaghetti Six Nations is throwing at the wall, they might well be Italian.

Canada has to figure out a way of dealing with bad faith litigation by Indians who have nothing to lose and trillions to gain. A price needs to be paid by the Indians if they lose.

Canada’s national debt stands are $1.2 trillion; the decision as to whether the Indian litigants are owed multiple trillions surely cannot be left in the hands of any old Ontario judge.

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