By K.Darbyson Local Journalism Initiative The highest court in the country has delivered a unanimous ruling on the Robinson Huron and Robinson Superior treaties, determining that the Crown “dishonourably breached” a key part of these 1850 agreements. In a decision delivered Friday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada stated that the Crown failed to “diligently fulfill” the augmentation clause of the original treaties, which entitled members of the Huron and Superior First Nations to annuities that were supposed to increase over time. Because these annuities haven’t increased since 1875, Justice Mahmud Jamal, who penned Friday’s decision, wrote that the Crown is “obliged” to determine an amount of “honourable compensation” to the Superior plaintiffs. “If the Crown and the Superior plaintiffs cannot arrive at a negotiated settlement, the Crown will be…
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