Superior Court of Quebec

It's something they already did four years ago because he contested that obligation.

Now, that obligation, that bill that was passed in 2022 is being challenged in the Quebec Superior Court at the moment.

So we'll see.

Maybe he will eventually have to swear allegiance to the king if the court decides to force them to do so.

Um, they basically, well, denied, uh, the allegations, uh, dismissed them, and, uh, continued with their project.

So it's at that point that they decided to, uh, uh, go to the Quebec Superior Court and seek an injunction, and this led to what, uh, apparently was the first injunction ever obtained by self-represented Indigenous people, uh, in Canada because the Mohawk Mothers, uh, did not want to use a lawyer who would, uh, be under, uh, Canadian law, who would pledge all- uh, allegiance to, uh, uh, to the Canadian legal system, whereas, uh, they stand, uh, entirely within their own, uh, legal tradition, the Gayanashagowa, uh, the Great Peace of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

The, um, Allan Memorial Institute was, uh, opened in 1943 during the war.

It was because the Canadian Army wanted a research institute associated with all the trauma put onto Canadian soldiers during the war.

So by background, you'll remember that the federal government passed MAID legislation in 2016.

The Superior Court of Quebec struck down the law in 2019 because it was limited to those whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable.

Bill C-7 was passed by Parliament in March of 2021.

It removed the requirement in line with the court's ruling.