Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada free Otto bar band members demand answers tired of despotic old leadership Julia Necheff Canadian press Stewart holds Legal papers and gives a thumbs up after a court fight Over family one step closer to avoiding extradition Canadian press Vancouver Ron Stewart has almost won his extradition Case to his native United Stewart and his family were buzzing with optimism Friday after a Long court fight against his extradition turned in his his wife Alexandra and their two teenage rejoiced Over a court of Appeal ruling that found an extradition judge had erred in accepting that 10 extortion Laid against Stewart under the Bank amounted to extortion in now its up to Justice minister Anne Mclellan to decide whether Victoria resident will be extradited from his adopted i think Canadas got a sense of Stewart said a Day in which he spent eight hours waiting in jail for his bail to be the Seattle born who was hired by the Sacramento savings Bank in got into hot water Over a loan extended to him in 1990 by David a contractor he considered a Pritchett later claimed that Stewart had extorted the loan out of him in return for future in August based on the allegations of the Bank fired seized half of the proceeds of the family Home and confiscated his he returned with his wife and family to Victoria where he had previously Pur chased a the court of Appeal said its doubtful that the conduct alleged by Pritchett could be made out As the crime of extortion under Cana Dian in this crime is often referred to in the vernacular As secret Justice John Hall wrote in the courts unanimous Deci after discounting the 10 counts of the Appeal court said the two remaining aiding and abetting Bank fraud and conspiracy to commit Bank Deal with the relatively modest amount of approximately the court ruled that since counsel for the United Kenneth founded the Case he presented to the extradition judge squarely on the extortion it would not be fair to now allow him to make a Case solely on the two fraud the Appeal court that Mclellan should have final say on the everybody has been said stewarts lawyer Gary the Bank cant say it has been it was awarded in a civil suit that Cost Stewart his pension savings and half the proceeds of his Sacramento sold under California Igi fial people Oft Many reserves Are rising up to demand account ability from their band tired of what they see As corruption and misuse of Reserve funds while they live in the extent of corruption is open to debate some aboriginals say it is others reject that its Clear there is in recent members of several reserves across the country have occupied band offices or staged protests and in two bands and a Metis settlement Are currently embroiled in Messy internal fights Over a third band is being investigated by the discontent is rising because band Mem Bers Are becoming More educated and Emprow says butt a Samson Cree who fighting his band Northwest says actions by dissident groups such As his Are creating a momentum on other the grassroots people Are starting to see whats going said his group Drew attention in August by occupying the Samson band office and demanding the resignation of the chief and then dissidents on the neighbouring Ermineskin Reserve occupied their band office and were flushed out by the protesters want to know Why so Many on the reserves Are poor even though both bands Are Rich from Oil Northwest says the vast majority of Samson members Are on Wel corrupt political practices Are entrenched in native communities and that the Way it has been since aboriginals were first put on he these governments have been in place for so have been conditioned to basically run on a nepotism this nepotism has been the downfall of All tribal governments right the other problem is Lack of Northwest says members dont know enough about where Money is in Southern controversy has sur rounded the Stoney band since a provincial judge called last june for a Crown investigation into the Community some aboriginal elders strongly supported the the system that on the Reserve is very Roy former chief of the Sik Sika said at the its a hidden mafia we live the Federal Indian affairs department eventually ordered an Independent forensic audit of the which has a deficit for 1996 97 even though it received million from along with resource two thirds of the bands members live on Phil National chief of the Assembly of first says band finances Are closely watched and its unfair to draw generalizations from the problems of a i dont know where this notion of corruption comes says there have been a in Southern pint nation near Owen Romp auditors called in fast april to 90 Over books following allegations of financial Labrador inn in in sparked by bitter dispute Between factions Over allegations of misuse of band it tote near North Polk teat Battle last january Between involved band Meadow Lake tribal Council in Northern internal dispute Over tribal coun cil finances in May accountability coalition demanded More control systems to ensure funding spent standoff at also in May dissident faction barricaded inside protesters demanded inquiry into band Barrie Lake Algonquin Community in que in january 1996 dissidents allege financial mismanagement and widespread sexual number of allegations lets wait and see this run its he said in reference to the Stoney if there is indeed those people who have committed criminal they should be held but we be tarred with the same he we Haven condemned the people in Saskatchewan for All the ministers and other party officials who have been charged with All kinds of Fontaine no one is arguing there is no accountability Fontaine was referring to a huge political scan dal in Saskatchewan where 20 former provincial conservative politicians and caucus workers have been charged with scamming expense the National Assembly will not get involved in band if a band perceives a prob Lem with its its up to the members to vote them Fontaine avoid regulating Gas prices study careers by Murray Brewster Canadian press Halifax provinces hit by gasoline Price shocks in the summer should resist the temptation to regulate the says a study by Ottawa and the Petro Leum the report by Industry natural resources Canada and the Canadian Petroleum products Institute cites Nova Scotia As an example of How Consumers Benefit when governments stay away from boy killed during buggy Outing in Saskatchewan Canadian press Moose an Outing in a buggy tragically for a old woman and a three Earold boy who were killed after being hit by a the mule drawn buggy was heading West on Highway 363 on about three Kilometres South of Moose when it was struck from behind by the the historical record is since deregulating pump prices in the Halifax and Likely others in Nova have seen a decline in pump said the completed last the big Oil companies blamed High refinery troubles and instability on the commodity Market for Price hikes of up to 10 cents a litre in August in most of Atlantic Quebec and prices have returned to Normal in Central but have fallen More slowly through the the average Price in the Region is about cents a litre for regular unleaded last Canadas consumer ministers agreed to study Gas at the same some provinces said they were looking at the Way Prince Edward Island continues to regulate Gas but the report suggested regulation is not a it noted Consumers in Charlottetown dont appear to Benefit from the current even Nova Scotia consumer minister Wayne Gaudet has refused to Rule out regulating prices an Oil Industry spokesman says fluctuating prices Are Normal in a free Market whenever prices go Consumers Are always looking for bumper sticker said Brenden Hawley of the Canadian Petroleum products when the Price is there allegations of gouging when the Price goes the allegation becomes predatory pricing and the Oil companies Are trying to drive out inde pendent and family 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