Dudley George Inquiry
May. 19th, 2005 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bcholmesThey've finally released information about the tape that surfaced last year in the Dudley George inquiry.
"The premier was quite adamant that this is not an issue of native rights and in his words, I mean we've tried to pacify and pander to these people far too long. It's now time for swift affirmative action," Insp. Fox says on the tape.
". . . I walked in the tail end of [Mr. Harris] saying something like . . . well I think the OPP made mistakes in this. They should have just gone in. He views it as a simple trespass to property. That's in his thinking. He's not getting the right advice. Or if he is getting right advice he sure is not listening to it in any way, shape or form."
Dudley George is the only Aboriginal person killed by police in a land claims dispute in Canada in the 20th Century. Until the Harris government got involved, the OPP had 13 police negotiators on-call around the clock.