Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Now Being Heard

James Bay Treaty #9 is the focus of a historic, multi-million dollar lawsuit now going on in a Toronto court.
15-lawyers represent the Mishkeegogamang people, the federal and provincial government, Ontario Power Generation and Ontario Electricity Power Corp.
There are only 900 on-reserve and 500 off-reserve people known as the Mish, but their traditional land covers nearly 355,000 square kilometres in northwestern Ontario and the former Northwest Territories.
The case is believed to be the first time a land claims lawsuit against the province of Ontario has gone to trial alongside the federal government.
Dollar figures for damages and reparations cited are in the hundreds of millions.
Opening statements are expected to take well into next week and the trial is expected to last until November.