Métis knowledge keeper Candace Lloyd ‘innocent of any wrongdoing of any kind’

By Michelle Dorey Forestell, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  13/06/2024 11:17 “You’re innocent of any wrongdoing of any kind.” These words spoken by Justice Geoffrey Griffin to Candace Lloyd must be acknowledged in the media and in all aspects of her personal and professional life and those of her family. Lloyd, along with her father, Robert Lloyd, and her brother, Scott Lloyd, all of whom had been members of the Highland Waters Métis Council in Northbrook, Ontario, had been charged in 2023 following an investigation by Lennox and Addington Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) into misuse of council funds. They were also stripped of any connection they still had with the Highland Waters Métis Council or the Metis Nation of Ontario. In Napanee’s Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2024,…

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