RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:KWG Resources site visit to the Ring of FireN59, para taken from "Map of Ontario treaties and reserves", FYI...
In Treaty 9, which covers a vast stretch of Ontario near James Bay, Crown negotiators verbally promised nations they would have the right to use their lands as they always had, but added a line in English — a language the nations’ representatives didn’t know — to allow resource extraction, among other things. Canadian courts have affirmed the verbal promises in the treaties are binding, but governments routinely fail to uphold them anyway.