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2 Tuesday August 18 2015 POLITICS ABORIGINAL NEWS BRIEFS Newly twinned section of Alberta Highway 63 opens Albertas notorious Highway 63 was shut down for half an hour Monday morning for a transition period as govern- ment crews celebrated the grand opening of a newly di- vided sectionof theroadway.Kilometres 11and63opened astwinsectionsthisweekincreasingthespeedlimitfrom 100kmh to 110kmh for the whole section in both direc- tions except through the hamlet of Wandering River. The Albertagovernmenthascommittedtotwinningtheentire dangerous highway to Fort McMurray by 2016. NWT government makes health- care more exible for snowbirds NWTresidentsonextendedvacationsnowcannowtakead- vantageofanextramonthoutsidetheterritorywithouttheir health coverage being affected. As long as residents main- tain their permanent residency in the NWT travelers will only need to be present in the territory for 153 days down from the previous 183-day limit and consistent with recent moves made by other provinces. Improvements have also been made to the forms used to update health information and apply for new health cards. CPAWS-NWT Love the Land photo contest underway TheNWTCanadianParksandWildernessSocietysannual Love the Land photo contest is accepting entries showcas- ing life on the land and water of the Northwest Territories in all four seasons. Participants have until Sept. 15 to enter their photos for prizes and a chance at being featured in a 2016 calendar. Photos should depict people - or evidence of people - on the land and water across the territory. 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PRICINGCALL FOR SPECIAL PRICINGCALL FOR SPECIAL PRICINGCALL FOR SPECIAL PRICINGCALL FOR SPECIAL PRICINGCALL FOR SPECIAL PRICING North Slave Mtis filing lawsuit over NWT Mtis Nation claim By DALI CARMICHAEL What was a milestone for oneMtisgroupoftheNorth- westTerritorieshasbecomean allegedroadblockforanother. On July 31 the NWT Mtis Nation NWTMN whose members mostly reside in the SouthSlaveregioncelebrated the signing of an Agreement- in-Principle AiP with the territorial and federal gov- ernments bringing them one step closer to a land and re- sources deal. But now president Bill Enge of the North Slave Mtis Alliance NSMA whose members live mainly to the north and east of Great Slave Lake has spoken out against the agreement stating that its language is problematic in multiple ways. As a result the group has decided to le a lawsuit in an attempt to put a halt to the NWTMNs negotiations. At this stage the North Slave Mtis Alliance leader- ship has no choice but to le a lawsuit against the Crowns decision to forge ahead with the Agreement-in-Principle the way it is designed in terms of its intent to extin- guish the section 35 Aborigi- nal rights of the Mtis of the NSMA Enge said. We are busy putting together a law- suit right now and we have to have our lawsuit led before or by Aug. 30. Were going to challenge this thing in court as far as it needs to go. Enge referred to the sec- tion of the Constitution Act of 1982 which afrms and recognizes the existing Ab- original and treaty rights of First Nations Mtis and Inuit peoples of Canada without dening those rights. There are several points from the AiP that disturb Engeandhisfellowmembers. The rst is the AiPs deni- tion of what makes a person Mtis. Instead of using the Powley Test denition - used across the country following a precedent-setting case - the AiP denition covers any Ab- originalpersonofCreeSlavey or Chipewyan ancestry who resided in used and occupied any part of the agreement area which covers much of the region to the south and east of Great Slave Lake on or before Dec. 31 1921. That definition is so broad Enge said. It cap- tures any Aboriginal person whohasoneofthosethreean- cestral lineages. By virtue of it being an Indian ancestry- baseddenitionitiscontrary tothecommonlawsofCanada for determining which Mtis have Aboriginal rights. This denition calls for the Mtis in the NWT with ancestry to besuckedintothatlandclaim without their knowledge or consent. We are effectively being frog-marched into this agreement. Members of the NWTMN have spoken out against this claim in the media stating thatmembershipwithintheir government is optional. The Journal made several attempts to reach NWTMN president Garry Bailey for comment unsuccessfully. But Enge said the lan- guage in the agreement does not make membership op- tional and in fact enforces it. Looking at sections 2.3.1. and 2.5.1. of the AiP it states that a Final Agreement will affect the Aboriginal rights ofalltheindividualseligible to be enrolled. In addition to taking away theautonomyofNSMAmem- bersEngesaidtheagreement actually cancels out some of their existing rights. The NSMA fought tooth and nail against the govern- ment of the Northwest Terri- tories for four and a half years for Aboriginal rights to har- vest caribou on the north side of Great Slave Lake he said. With the agreement and the boundaries it provides NSMA members allege they would effectively have their hunting rights on grounds ex- tinguished upon a NWTMN Final Agreement. Akaitcho First Nations speak out The NSMA are not the only group opposing the AiP. Since 2012 the Akaitcho Dene First Nations have had an ongoing court challenge to put a halt to the NWTMNs AiP. Both indigenous groups areinlandclaimnegotiations over territories that overlap. In their opposition to the agreementtheAkaitchohave said the NWTMN includes thosewhohavenoAboriginal ortreatyrightsintheNWTas well as non-status Dene - like MetislivinginFortResolution - who do have existing rights. The federal government signed this AiP on the eve of dropping the writ for a gen- eral election knowing full well that we have a court pro- ceeding underway to deter- mine whether signing the AiP is in accordance with Cana- das duty to consult and the honour of the Crown said Chief Felix Lockhart of the Lutsel Ke Dene First Nation a member of the Akaitcho. The Akaitcho First Nations have announced they will be requesting a meeting with the new federal government as soon as possible follow- ing the coming election to explain their position and ask for a suspension of the NWTMN negotiation as their own case proceeds. Enge said he had hoped he would not need to sue the government or the NWTMN butsaidhebelievestheNSMA was not properly consulted during the process and sees no other way to be heard. We were not adequately or even at all accommodated during the so-called con- sultation process he said. We had two meetings with the government of Canada and the government of the NWT and we raised those issues with them to no avail. As far as were concerned they were putting on a dog and pony show to let us vent off issues and then they did what they had planned to do all along anyway. Filephoto North Slave Mtis Alliance president Bill Enge has said the group is preparing to le a lawsuit over a recent land claim by the NWT Mtis Nation because of the way it frog marches his membership into South Slave organization.