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Resolution Number: 2007-06-05Discriminatory Underfunding Of Policing In Mushkegowuk Fn Communities
2007-06-05 EXCERPT:

ushkegowuk Council Special Assembly

Attawapiskat First Nation

Chief Jonathan Solomon Kashechewan First Nation

Kashechewan First Nation

Fort Albany First Nation

Andrew Koostachin, Delegate Attawapiskat First Nation

Moose Cree First Nation

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First Nation

Adopted by Consensus

Chapleau Cree First Nation

Missanabie Cree

First Nation

Certified copy of a resolution

passed on June 5, 2007

Resolution No. 2007-06-05

Discriminatory Underfunding of Policing

in Mushkegowuk First Nation Communities

WHEREAS Mushkegowuk Council First Nation communities have long experienced a deficiency of policing services that would not be tolerated in non-native communities; and

WHEREAS the primary cause of the policing deficiencies is the systemic underfunding of policing in First Nation communities by the federal and provincial governments;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Mushkegowuk Council file human rights complaints in the provincial and federal human rights process based on the systemic underfunding of policing services in Mushkegowuk First Nation communities.

June 5, 2007

Cochrane, Ontario