And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:10:23 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Coalition, Inquest, Dudley George's murder Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Let Us Consider The Human Brain As A Very Complex Photographic Plate" 1957 G.H. Estabrooks www.angelfire.com/mn/mcap/bc.html FOR K A R E N #01182 who died fighting 4/23/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aches-mc.org 807-622-5407 Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&