I just don't get it. These First Nation people, tribes actually, appear to want everything their way. They want both sides of the fence, they want their cake and eat it too. They cry for their traditional rights and way of life on the one hand but on the other they want all the so called goodies of the "white man" in the south. Do they really want their traditional ways with NO adequate housing, NO standard of education, NO provision of health care, NO funding to be able to buy themselves into a drug crisis and NO employment? Do they want to go back to the way things were 200 years ago? I doubt this as very likely. They rant on about the environment, which definitely is a very important issue, but just what destruction will there be with an 80 ft wide corridor of 350 km length to cause. This land mass is a mere pin prick in the vastness of northern Ontario as is the whole ring of fire. The 100 bodies of water that would be in approximation will not be surrounded by 10,000 high priced cottages with access roads in the next 50 years I am more than certain, and building bridges over 4 major rivers does not make them sewers. The six tribal communities that propose this eviction notice from "their land"(hahaha)want the goodies and want to get them their way or no way at all. They say this development will change their way of life forever. Damned right it will because apparently that is just exactly what they are asking for, a more modern way of life with all the above mentioned items. The other question I ask myself is just how close does any of this development come to any of these tribal communities. I dare say, by the looks of a map, that any of this is going to affect the normal range of any of their hunting or fishing grounds. I am more than sure that they do not tramp through more than 50 kms of woods on foot to hunt or fish for anything. I also have my doubts that an 80 ft wide path with a truck passing every half hour is going to deter the caribou from their normal migration routes.

Instead of hindering the development of this mining district, the peoples of this area should be jumping on the bandwagon. They need to prepare themselves to take advantage of the opportunities of what this development will bring to them as far as these things they desire. JMHO but I could be wrong