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Rice farming in Ontario lake sparks fight over treaty and property rights

For years, residents near Pigeon Lake in Southern Ontario were unhappy with a local wild rice harvester who was seeding the lake, filling their shorelines with the marshy plant. But when the locals decided to take action and cut down the plants, the simmering tension exploded into a fight over treaty and property rights.

The fight is raising fundamental questions over the balance of the rights of the residents, who see the lake as a recreational area and important waterway for their boats, with the rights of the First Nation community, who see the lake as an important source of food, protected by their treaty.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rice-farming-in-ontario-lake-sparks-fight-over-treaty-and-property-rights/article26155200/

 

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