A legal battle playing out in a northern Ontario courtroom this month has seen an alliance of First Nations argue they are owed upwards of $100 billion.
That annuity was first set at around $1.60 per capita, and has only been increased once, to $4 in 1875. Now, the First Nations argue they are owed billions.“The concepts of sharing and resource benefit sharing – they’re really things that we have to talk about in what we call implementing historic treaties,” said Sara Mainville, a former chief of the Couchiching First Nation and partner at JFK Law, whose practice areas include Indigenous self-government and treaty implementation.
Chief Hardy said the decision could help set the “building blocks in order to move ahead” with the future of treaty relations and First Nation self-government. They say that model does not reflect a “realistic shareable amount” and suggest the compensation award should be in the range of $578 million to $2.45 billion.
“If that were true, then … sometime in the ’50s or ’60s, the Government of Canada should have come to the Anishinaabe and said, ‘my gosh, we can’t make a go of it, here’s $2 billion, $3 billion, just take that money and take the land back, take the waters back,” he said in an interview.
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