Broken trust and Bill 5: First Nations leaders at Queen’s Park – The Narwhal

June 2, 2025

First Nations across Ontario promise ‘a long and very unnecessary fight’ over attempt to accelerate Ring of Fire development and limit endangered species protections

In a striped shirt and baseball cap, Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief Leo Friday reminded a group of besuited government officials he had travelled almost 700 kilometres from northern Ontario to the provincial legislature in downtown Toronto.

Slamming a hand on the table and gesturing at the door of the Queen’s Park committee room, Friday told the officials he knocked before coming in.

“But you don’t even come and knock on my door to speak with me,” he said in Oji-Cree, as the officials listened through headphones to a translator. “You are just trying to access things inside my house.”

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