Thursday, May 31, 2007. The Ipperwash inquiry report is released today which looks into the 1995 shooting death of the slain aboriginal protester Dudley George. Dudley George, 38, was killed by a police sniper's bullet as Ontario Provincial Police moved in on the occupation by unarmed protesters at Ipperwash Provincial Park on the shores of Lake Huron. Dudley George had fought for years for the province to call an inquiry on First Nations land claims and how to settle the more than 1,100 outstanding land claims across Canada. Premier Dalton McGuinty launched the inquiry into the Sept. 6, 1995, clash at Ipperwash only days after his Liberals swept into power in 2003. Commissioner Sidney Linden reviewed the testimony of 139 witnesses heard over 25 months in Forest, Ont., a town not far from the occupation site. One of the key issues the inquiry examined was whether alleged political interference from the then Ontario Premier Mike Harris played a role in the police response to the occupation. Mike Harris, the then acting Premier of Ontario acknowledged during his testimony that he wanted the occupation brought to a quick end, and expressed that sentiment during an informal government meeting held just hours before Dudley George was killed. Charles Harnick, Mike Harris's attorney general at the time of the protest, testified that he heard Harris say at the meeting, "I want the f---king Indians out of the park." Mike Harris vehemently denied making the statement and that political influence played no role in the tragedy. The George family's lawyer, Murray Klippenstein, argued during the inquiry's final submissions that Harris's stated desire for a quick end to the occupation filtered down to police on the scene at Ipperwash which had influenced their actions. In order to better understand what had happened, we need to take a look back into history on how all this came about. In 1942 the federal government expropriates land that had been claimed by the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation people. The land which was expropriated was on the shores of Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario. The federal government built a military base which was called Camp Ipperwash. Ottawa pays the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation bands $50,000 to use the land, with the promise that the land will be returned to them after WWII was over. After the second world war had ended in 1945, the federal government refused to return the land as promised. Instead they continued to use the base as a military training camp. In 1981, the federal government finally pays out an additional $2.5 million for the use of the land and promises to return it when the government no longer need it for military purposes. Instead of giving the land back to the Native people when the base was finally shut down, as was promises, the federal government turned the military base into a Provincial Park which put the land under Provincial Government control. Incidents like this is nothing new to the First Nation People when dealing with the "Crown" and the federal government which represented a "Christian" nation and soceity. It is a sad historical reflection and comentary that all the lying, the deceit and dishonesty, the breaking of treaties was brought on by those "Christian" people who had come upon the shores of the First Nation People. Here is a brief overview on the history on the development of Canada and the aboriginal First Nations land claims which Canadians now face today. During the early British exploration to find opportunities to find new sources of wealth by the British Crown, they had encouraged to establish new British colonies within a continent which would later be divided and become known as the nations of Canada and the USA. After the experience and tragedy of having obliterated the entire Beothuk First Nations people in Newfoundland (1500-1829 CE), and the atrocities which were being committed by their fellow Christians in the USA, the British Crown wanted to avoid the same problems by purchasing lands from the First Nations people in order to establish their new British Colonies across Canada. Treaties were required to be negotiated with the First Nations People in Canada in order to comply with the Royal Proclamation of 1763. This document made it mandatory that all unceded lands were reserved for the First Nations. This reassured that land was to be used for hunting grounds and that no lands were to be purchased or settled without royal approval having first been obtained. In the event that the First Nations wanted to dispose of the unceded land, it would first have to be purchased by the Crown through a public meeting or an assembly of the First Nations people. But this was draining the coffers of the Crown during the expansion of colonies on the mainland of Canada. They then switched their tactics and came up with a new scheme which they now claimed to be holding all the lands for the First Nations people in order to protect them from those land grabing fine Christian Nobles who were establishing these British colonies for their own intrest and that of the Crown. Those same fine Christian Nobles had turned around and sold lands which the Crown did not really own. Various business enterprise had bought large tracts of land and re-sold those divided sections of land to the settlers who were by then coming in droves from Europe and the British Isles to start a new life for themselves. By the way, this kind of land grab tactics used by those representing the Crown was also deviously used by the established Catholic and Protestant Christian churches who were directly involved with the First Nations people. This allowed them to steal land from the First Nation people to build up their own coffers in their drive in the expansion of Christianity. The Government of Canada would later declare that the lands the Crown was holding and protecting for the First Nation people, was now under the Government of Canada with its newly formed Canada Crown Land Act and its Canada Department of Crown Lands. In order for a truly civilized people who believe in truth, honesty and justice, and always wanting to do what is right, present day fair-minded Canadians are now obliged to correct this sad situation which has tainted the legacy of what was meant to be. Present day Canadians are left with the responsibility, the task to correct the injustice which was brought against the First Nation People by those who had created the injustice. This is where we are presently at concerning Jim Prentice who is trying to resolve the long standing grievances between the First Nations people and their land claims with the Government of Canada.