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Wednesday, April 3, 1985
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Vol. 48, No. 12

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Members of the Clayoquot and Ahou-
Saht Indian bands and supporters dem-
©nstrated outside the annual general
pene of MacMillan Bloedel Mar. 29.

“Uoyed up by the majority decision of
the B.C. Court of Appeals the day

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The demonstration had been called
rata weeks earlier in an effort to take
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and — which has been declared a tri-
al park by the Indian bands — directly

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© the shareholders of the forest giant.
Ut the 3-2 decision by the Appeal
Ourt justices gave opponents of log-

even greater public support for the
demand that Meares Island, the site of
one of the largest tracts of first growth
timber in the province, be preserved.
The two bands had appealed the Jan.
25 Supreme Court decision by Justice
Reginald Gibbs who had ruled that any
aboriginal claim to the island had been
inguished.
ae Thursday, justices Peter Sea-
ton, Allan MacFarlane and Douglas
Lambert, the majority of the five-man
Appeals Court bench, ruled: ‘The claim
to Indian title cannot be rejected at this

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would require a substantial amount of
evidence to be heard and considered and
a meticulous study of the law carried
out — which could only be done in a full
trial.

Accordingly, they ruled, MacMillan
Bloedel is restrained from any logging or
site preparation before Nov. 1 at which
time the aboriginal claims issue is
expected to be decided by the courts.

The Appeals Court ruled against an
appeal by environmentalists who had
sought to stop logging although that
decision was not expected to affect the
campaign which will now focus sharply
on the land claims issue.

ng at least seven more months to win