<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Folks</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>SLAPP: Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">By blocking people OUT of democratic processes, it might very well qualify.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Lulu </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca" <thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca>; "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca" <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>; "Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca" <Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca>; "pm@pm.gc.ca" <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "info@afn.ca" <info@afn.ca>; ppalmater@politics.ryerson.ca; "susan@raventrust.com" <susan@raventrust.com>; "akoehl@ecojustice.ca" <akoehl@ecojustice.ca>; "satleo@afn.ca" <satleo@afn.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:42:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Federal Government is using SLAPPS against First Nations<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3968287029"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Hon. Ministers, Prime Minister et al.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As an intervenor at the National Energy Board Hearing I witnessed the following passage in line 458, Volume 1 of the NEB transcript for Enbridge Line 9 </font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></font><span style="
background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bien que tout comme l'Office, Enbridge n’ait pas l’obligation i</font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;">ndépendante de consulter les groupes autochtones ou d’accommoder leurs </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">intérêts, Enbridge doit néanmoins répondre aux exigences de l’Office, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">d’entreprendre des démarches auprès des groupes autochtones.</span><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">The Transcript can be
viewed here
at: </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=1045208&objAction=browse">https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=1045208&objAction=browse</a><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Basically Enbridge is trying to use </font><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. v. Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, 2010 SCC 43 </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">at para 31
to negate the need for proper
First Nation's Consultation in regards to the National Energy Board's Enbridge Line 9 pipeline hearing. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">The argument to defend against the use of Rio Tinto to bypass reasonable mediation protocols was presented in Volume 5 of the Enbridge Line 9 NEB transcripts </span><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">as presented by </font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Scott Andrew Smith;
the co-counsel to Aamjiwnaang </font></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:transparent;">First Nation and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. ( </font><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Aamjiwnaang First Nation is referred to as AFN </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation as COTTFN). You can view his testimony starting on Line </span><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3182 in Volume 5 as posted here: </font></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=1050128&objAction=browse" style="background-color:transparent;">https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=1050128&objAction=browse</a></div><div
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">I am quite concerned about this because in my view, the Harper Government clearly has a pattern of negating the need for the Crown to facilitate reasonable consultation processes with First Nations communities. It happened with Northern Gateway, Line 9 NEB process and in New Brunswick regarding Shale Gas and a number of other projects prior to this. In my view this is nothing more than a SLAPP.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;"><span style="line-height:
19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation] can be defined as a lawsuit initiated against one or more individuals or groups that speak out or take a position in a public debate on an issue of public interest. The purpose of SLAPPs is to limit the freedom of expression of the defendants and neutralize their actions by resorting to the courts to intimidate them, deplete their resources and reduce their means of action.</span></div><div style="margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2006, the Minister of Justice of Québec created a committee of legal experts to assess the desirability of enacting measures to counter SLAPP suits. Roderick A. Macdonald chaired the committee and was assisted by two other legal experts, Pierre Noreau and Daniel Jutras. Their report, <i>Les Poursuites stratégiques contre la
mobilisation publique – Les poursuites-bâillons (SLAPP</i>) [Strategic lawsuits against public mobilization – gag lawsuits (SLAPPs)], was made public in June 2007.</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The committee concluded that abusive lawsuits are an observable reality and constitute a serious threat to the participation of citizens and groups in public debate. The committee added that the solution to the SLAPP phenomenon should have defined objectives, such as protecting the right to freedom of expression and opinion, putting a speedy halt to strategic lawsuit proceedings, deterrence of SLAPP lawsuits, safeguarding the integrity and objectives of the judicial institution, and improving access to
justice.*</span></div><div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> *</span><i>Les poursuites stratégiques contre la mobilisation publique – les poursuites-bâillons (SLAPP)</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> [Strategic lawsuits against public mobilization – gag lawsuits (SLAPPs)], p.76.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height:
18.375px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">The lack of reasonable consultation wtih First Nations is not morally, ethically or judicially reasonable. This is clearly a breach of the Constitution Act 1982 section 35.1 as seen here; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/const/const1982.html" style="background-color:transparent;">http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/const/const1982.html</a> and it is in<span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:justify;"> violation of Specific Treaty Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-size:16px;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;">The Harper Government is failing to protect the rights of Aboriginal Canadians by subjecting them these unreasonable SLAPP processes by negating the Crown's duty to consult. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">I demand a legal investigation to review
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