New ruling criticizes Public Safety Canada and minister Marco Mendicino for inflexibility that contributed to broken negotiations and fears of police layoffs
A judge has issued a temporary injunction telling the federal government to fund three Ontario First Nations police forces without delay – and without arbitrary funding conditions.
Because the previous deals expired on March 31, the forces had been operating without government funding for the past three months. Groups representing dozens of reserves patrolled by the police forces declared states of emergency for fear that officers would be laid off this summer. Justice Gascon’s ruling stresses that Ottawa officials must be flexible in their relations with First Nations. He said this means they cannot claim that they are powerless to alter terms and conditions that they themselves imposed on funding deals. The ministry and Mr. Mendicino, he said, “repeatedly state that they are ‘constrained’ by the Terms and Conditions but the reality is they can unilaterally modify them at the stroke of the pen as they see fit.
“I believe this is a groundbreaking judgment. But this is far from the end. I believe this is only the beginning,” he said.
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