Musterbrief

Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Government of Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Canada

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Dear Sir,

According to a 2005 decision of the UN Human Rights Committee Canada continues to violate the human rights of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation in Northern Alberta. The UN-Committtee in 1990 also found that negotiations are an appropriate remedy against these human rights violations.

Recent information about your government’s reaction to the most recent UN findings indicate that your negotiators are not instructed to end a strategy which clearly is the cause for the UN Committess re-newed criticism of this situation.

In a suggested Memorandum of Intent (MOI) federal negotiators proposed an approach to a new round of negotiations whose details, such as adherence to Treaty 8, in the light of the conflict’s history have to be considered to be a cynical insult.
Obviously this MOI is the latest attempt to deceive the general public and the UN Human Rights Committee about the true nature of issues and to simulate “negotiations” that everybody who knows about the history of various rounds of talks, e.g. the federal negotiators, are completely unacceptable to the Lubicon Cree.

Fair and unprejudiced negotiations take into account that Canada has to give in exchange of resource-rich land. All that Canada had to offer until now is just a welfare pittance for 9750 sqkm of extremely valuable Lubicon territory. The paragraphs of the MOI read as if somebody asked to buy a house, transfer the ownership title and then at some unspecified time later negotiate the unspecified price for the house. This way you couldn’t buy a used car in any place in the world.

Canada finally must understand that human rights violations Canada inflicted on the Lubicon Cree are not something that go away just because Canada wants a cheap way out.





Yours sincerely