Justice Harry LaForme, who was hired to write a report on the disbursement of the $10-billion Robinson Huron Treaty settlement, resigned in September after filing an interim report, but the reasons for his resignation and whether he resigned or was fired remain...
Was Justice Harry LaForme fired or did he resign? These are but two questions swirling around the $10-billion Robinson Huron Treaty settlement.
In the letter to LaForme, Restoule seems to suggest that the involvement of LaForme’s employer in the situation creates a conflict of interest, though he doesn’t use that term. But it is in the wake of LaForme’s interim report that the Sept. 1 meeting of the RHTLF and the Litigation Management Committee occurred. The LMC was established by the RHTLF and is composed of two trustees from each Robinson Huron Treaty Anishinaabek sub-region: the Manitoulin sub-region, the North Shore sub-region and the Highway 69 Corridor sub-region.
Again, because of the limited publicly available information, it is unclear what allegations were levelled against the litigation team or what exactly LaForme means when he references organized crime cases. In Restoule's letter, he to told LaForme that the “overly negative tone in your interim report is one of the main reasons the chiefs and trustees decided to discontinue your role and dissolve the Office of Mizhinawe,” and went on to state that the “vast majority of chiefs did not find your report reflected what occurred in their own community sessions.”
These consultations, referred to as the Mizhinawe Naangidoondaa, inform Treaty members about the proposed $10-billion annuities settlement announced on June 17 and also seek their feedback on the process of distributing the settlement amount and paying the lawyers involved. “What we are doing is giving the members a chance to tell us, in their own words, how they think that distribution of settlement monies should go, and they're given the opportunity to get as much information as we can give them,” he said.The Interim Report The report states that community members expressed the need for more information.
At least one Ansihnaabe signatory, Garden River First Nation, expressed displeasure with the amount of legal fees, among other aspects of the compensation disbursement agreement. Chief and council released a memo on social media Sept.
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