Billions of dollars worth of oil, potash, uranium and other commodities are extracted across the Canadian Prairies every year, and First Nations say they’ve been illegally excluded from that windfall.
Now they say they’re launching a lawsuit to change that.
“We are united to claim rights that have never been extinguished to the land and the resources,” Cowessess First Nation Chief Erica Beaudin said Tuesday.
“We will not stop until we have secured the future for our next seven generations.”
Beaudin and more than 20 other chiefs from across the Prairies attended a news conference Tuesday in Saskatoon. They want to quash the controversial 1930 Natural Resource Transfer Agreement (NRTA). In the
