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PAGE 2 • DECEMBER 2015 aDVERtiSinG MatERial SpECiFiCationS First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andt Ontario. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. All digital advertising files, whether on disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press department, 204-697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. Please contact your First Nations Voice ad sales rep for details. NEXT ISSUE: DECEMBER 30 , 2016 The advertising deadline is December 18, 2015 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net HoW to ContaCt US pUBliSHER Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDitoR Trevor Greyeyes (204.282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net 100-per-cent First nations owned — Distribution: 100,000 copies No material in First Nations Voice may be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. First Nations Voice is published monthly by the First Nations Voice. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Trevor Greyeyes 204.282-6341. 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 advertising Sales Laurie Finley, VP Sales and Marketing / laurie.finley@freepress.mb.ca Barb Borden, Manager Niche Publishing/ barb.borden@freepress.mb.ca Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 Bill Gallagher, commentary for First Nations Voice Strategist-lawyer-author: Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources ThE haRpER GovERNMENT vs NaTIvES I t turned out that The Harper Government's (THG) last executive-decision involving the City of Winnipeg was not to appeal the fourth and final ruling on the future of Kapyong Barracks. So now it's safe to assume that the region's new political class will find a way to transform this civic liability into a native 'reconciliation' asset. How much time and money has been squandered on this file prior to the election? Better to ask is what are the other big projects that have out on THG's watch. In quick response: the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, Northern Gateway pipeline and Keystone XL have all succumbed to native push back and that is the major under-reported factor in the mainstream media. And to put this litany of wasted opportunities in its broadest context, THG also lost native court challenges on its two Omnibus Bills, and its First Nations Financial Transparency Act; meaning that native strategists have succeeded in putting a judicial cloud over three acts of Parliament. It's one thing to keep litigating (Kapyong) and another thing to see projects touted as 'no brainers' go down (Keystone); however it's a different order of magnitude to see budget bills passed in Parliament impugned (C-38 & C-45) after the fact: [110] … a duty to consult arose in the circumstances of this case. That duty was triggered upon the introduction of each of the Omnibus Bills in Parliament, The extent of that duty was for the Crown to give notice to the Mikisew and a reasonable opportunity to make submissions. A declaration to that effect will be ordered. (Chief Steve Courtoreille v The Governor General in Council 2014 FC 1244) Remember, these omnibus bills amended a suite of federal legislation governing environmental reviews: Fisheries Act, Species at Risk Act, Navigable Waters Protection Act and Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, plus others. Which is why, upon winning a judicial 'declaration', the same natives are not prepared to abide by the regulatory outcomes served up by these legislative amendments: "We do not recognize the new legislation. How can we recognize what we haven't been consulted on?" he said. "(The federal government) will have to find a way to navigate that. We will protect our interest. We will protect our environment." (Mikisew Cree Chief Courtoreille quoted Ed Journal Dec 21 2014) As a direct result, we saw a major native litigation roll out this October against federal pipeline approvals; triggered on account of having won this 'declaration'. We can also see that all these strategic moves are connected right across Canada. That's the reason I call natives 'Resource Rulers'; as they've shown in Winnipeg, they've been able to turn THG's approach to project planning - upside down!

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