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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:10:23 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Coalition, Inquest, Dudley George's murder
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Monday, June 7, 1999
Coalition for George inquiry eyes new approach
By JULIE CARL, London Free Press Reporter
A coalition pushing for an inquiry into the shooting of a native protester
has vowed to continue despite the Tory election victory last week. Dudley
George was gunned down three months after the Harris-led Tories first swept
to power in 1995, following a clash between the OPP and native protesters
occupying Ipperwash Provincial
Park. The Harris government has refused to hear calls for an inquiry,
saying related issues are still before the courts. OPP Acting Sgt. Kenneth
Deane was convicted of criminal negligence causing death in the shooting,
but is appealing. The Coalition for a Public Inquiry into the Death of
Dudley George failed to make the inquiry a major issue in the recent
provincial election. Coalition members will meet this week to set new
priorities, said spokesperson Ann Pohl. "It is our sense Canada won't want
to go back to the UN without an inquiry," she said, referring to a scathing
report this spring by a United Nations human rights committee on need for
an inquiry. The federal government is to respond to the report by the end
of 1999, said Pohl. Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart and her
predecessor, Ron Irwin, who was minister when George was shot, have both
called on the province to hold an inquiry.
George was killed by police just outside Ipperwash Provincial Park Sept. 6,
1995. The natives were protesting the desecration of a burial ground there.
Pohl said the Federal Inquiries Act precludes the federal government
holding an inquiry into provincial matters. But her group obtained a legal
opinion stating the federal government could investigate clashes between
natives and police by using the Ipperwash shooting as an example. Coalition
members were heartened that two politicians who championed their cause,
Liberal MPP Gerry Phillips and New Democrat Leader Howard Hampton, were
re-elected last week. Pohl plans to write Premier Mike Harris to follow up
on his campaign comment he wasn't ruling out the need for an inquiry.
Meanwhile, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by some of George's brothers and
sisters against Harris, the provincial government and others, will be back
before a Toronto court again tomorrow. Lawyer Murray Klippenstein said he
and his partners will continue to argue the government file a list of
related documents.
He said he was served a day after the election with papers indicating
government lawyers would argue the proceedings should be halted while the
government appeals -- to the Supreme Court, if
possible -- a ruling the lawsuit be allowed to continue. "It was a stark
new direction from what Mike Harris had been saying a couple of days
earlier," said Klippenstein. Harris said during the election campaign he'd
instructed his lawyers to co-operate fully.
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Quote of the Day:
"Asked what he would do to reach out to "the little people," Mr. Harris
said, "I come from little people." Photo: Mike Harris clutching his
campaign bus mascot teddy bear
[National Post Gord McLaughlin interview with Mike Harris June 05]
"Mark David Chapman told psychiatrists at Bellevue Hospital of the "Little
People" who lived inside his mind. Nearly 6 months after the John Lennon
murder, Chapman sketched this diagram on June 2, 1981 at the request of
psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Schwartz, to illustrate the interactions between
the various governmental bodies and committees in his head. The Little
People, he says, "were appalled," and they abandoned him when he told them
of his decision to kill the music legend." [p.129 Let Me Take You Down
Jack Jones Villard Books '92]
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"Let Us Consider The Human Brain As
A Very Complex Photographic Plate"
1957 G.H. Estabrooks
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