By Austin Evans Writer Brantford’s Committee of the Whole unanimously voted in favour to request the Canadian government assign a judge to a 30-year old Six Nations lawsuit. Six Nations of the Grand River took the governments of Canada and Ontario to court in 1995 in a case which continues to this day. Six Nations’ stance is the British Crown set aside roughly 950,000 acres of land for Six Nations before improperly selling most of it to settlers. The band cites the 1784 Haldimand Proclamation which it considers a treaty and seeks compensation from the governments of Canada and Ontario. Canada and Ontario argue that the Proclamation was not a treaty and did not obligate them to establish a reserve. They also claim the Six Nations people made a series…
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