By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, SNnewswatch.com NESKANTAGA — Chief Gary Quisess says the province is setting the stage for repression of Indigenous protests so that it can push through a road to the Ring of Fire. A regulatory proposal from the government is designed to empower police “to subdue any protest, blockade or ‘barrier’ to the advancement of the Ring of Fire,” Quisess said in a recent letter to the province’s solicitor general and attorney general, as well as the federal justice minister. Premier Doug Ford’s government “is laying the groundwork for the legislative, regulatory or policy mechanisms and police use of force required to build the Northern Road Link,” according to Quisess’s letter, dated Oct. 31. The province is building access roads to Marten Falls and Webequie…
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