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Look out, C-10 passes through Senate0
OTTAWA – The controversial Bill C-10, which has potential to negatively impact the economy of many First Nations communities, passed third reading Thursday morning. The Bill will criminalize those Native owned businesses and individuals selling tobacco through on reserve Native Smoke Shops. To give it teeth, Bill C-10 creates mandatory minimum sentences for various “crimes”
READ MOREHaudenosaune Confederacy Council issue Official Statement on Bill C-100
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- June 13, 2014
SIX NATIONS – The Haudenosaune Confederacy Council, the authentic governing body of the Six Nations people, released an official statement yesterday on Bill C-10, saying they reject enforced legislation by foreign governments on sovereign territory. The statement reads, in it’s entirety: “The Haudenosaunee are a sovereign people with long standing relationship as Allies with the
READ MOREChiefs of Ontario reject Bill C-10; criminalization of indigenous tobacco trade10
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- June 10, 2014
Toronto, ON (June 10, 2014) — The Chiefs of Ontario are calling the latest Conservative bill a direct attack on the livelihood of First Nations people.
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So what’s the fuss with Tobacco?3
Just about everyone has heard about the recent “largest tobacco bust” in North American history. There is nary a media source that is reporting all the elements of this raid right. Some have spoken of 400 armed officers of different jurisdictions coming together to carry out coordinated raids on Onhkwehonh:we territories. Other reports spoke of mafia connections to an organized native crime syndicate with the implication being that hundreds of Native peoples were arrested in these raids. Still other reports spoke to the gathering of firearms in the hundreds and a substantial accumulation of marijuana plants along with 3,4, 5, no, wait for it! 6 trailer loads of raw tobacco leaf. So what is the fuss about and why the amazingly disparate descriptions of what actually took place in the Kahnawake and Akwesasne territories?
READ MORECoalition to Stop Bill C-10 marches forward0
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- April 29, 2014
On Sunday April 27, 2014 the Coalition to Stop Bill C-10 held a successful meeting with some 40 people from about a dozen different organizations in attendance. The group was evenly made up of both native and non-native people and communities and businesses from Moraviantown, Six Nations, Toronto, Fort Erie and elsewhere were represented.
READ MORECoalition created to fight Bill C-102
TORONTO – A coalition has been formed against the Harper Government’s Bill C-10 (an act to criminalize Native tobacco). The coalition is currently comprised of a variety of groups which have long taken positions in support of indigenous rights and sovereignty. Signatories to a statement released on the http://billc10.ca/ website include the Law Union of Ontario, No One Is Illegal – Toronto, the BASICS Community News Organization, the Two Row Society, and the First Nations Solidarity Working Group of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3903.
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