Major Setback For Grassy Narrows First Nation

Grassy Narrows has lost its case before the Supreme Court of Canada.
In a ruling this morning, the country’s highest court unanimously upheld the province of Ontario’s right to allow clear-cut logging activity on the Grassy Traditional Land Use Territory.
Grassy argued that only the federal government has the right to decide what activity can take place on its traditional lands, because that’s who they signed Treaty Three with.
But the court made it clear that Ontario and only Ontario has the right to take up lands under Treaty Three.
It goes on to say that the province has the exclusive power to manage and sell those lands as well as make laws in relation to the resources on or under those lands.
The ruling does says the province has to respect the harvesting rights of the Ojibway.