The following remarks were given by Noah Massan from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings.
“It all started off in 1974, I will tell you a story. When cottage owners started to build a marina, they started a little marine club right at the — what do you call — Butnau dyke. When me and my dad went fishing at Gull Rapids for sturgeon, when we come back late that evening, about 10:00 o’clock, my dad was surprised, he seen all of these — I never seen a boat dock in my 1 life before. They got all of these boat docks. And one Hydro guy come running to my dad, hey, you can’t put your boat here, you have to belong to the marina club. But my dad didn’t take no crap, I don’t want to say that word what he said. I have a lot of respect for your people, you know. But my dad was yelling there. I just took all of the fish off and put them in the truck. Because that’s where we put our boat, it is our trapline. Even right now you go there and they have got a big sign there, you have to be a boat marina member, you know. I forgot to take that picture when I was out for Christmas, it is there.” – Noah Massan, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Testimony of Noah Massan from Fox Lake Cree Nation. Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings. (January 7, 2014). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Volume 29; page 6600-6601. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Transcripts_-_Keeyask_Winnipeg_Hearing_v.29_Jan_7,_2014.pdf
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