Legal challenge argues Indigenous Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory members have Aboriginal treaty rights that protect ‘agricultural endeavours’ under Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Indian Act.
n injunction has been served upon the Ontario Provincial Police and Tyendinaga Police Service seeking to block police raids and seizures of marijuana operations on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
The legal challenge comes after a series of raids, arrests and seizures of large quantities of marijuana in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory last week.
A party known as Kanyen’ke:haka Nation served the Napanee OPP office September 26 with a interlocutory injunction, a legal document seeking a hearing with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
The legal document challenges the authority of Ontario Provincial Police, Tyendinaga Police Service and Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team on the grounds that the territory and its residents are protected under federal Indigenous statutes.
The injunction is requesting the court restrain “the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), their servants, agents, or representatives, from seizing, removing, interfering with, or otherwise exercising control over property which is under the control of the Tyendinaga Reservation pending a determination of this proceeding or any further Order of the Court.”
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