After years of efforts, Mohawks have copies of official documents revealing that the governments of Canada and Quebec financed and carried out a covert operation to destroy Kanehsatake Mohawks in 2004. The government Op cost $40 million and began by trying to take out the police station.

Canada's 'Indian Affairs' Financed War Machine to Attack Kanehsatake Mohawks
CANADA’S “INDIAN AFFAIRS” FINANCED
WAR MACHINE TO ATTACK KANEHSATAKE
MOHAWKS ON JAN. 12 2004

Mohawk Nation News
Jan. 27th 2008. Government documents received through
an “Access to Information” request prove that the attack on peaceful
Kanehsatake Mohawks by a heavily armed 67-man paramilitary
force was planned, financed and implemented by Indian Affairs,
Solicitor General’s Office and the Prime Minister’s Office of Ottawa.

The documents reveal that the initial lay out of over $900,000 was
illegally provided by Indian Affairs to Public Safety and Emergency
Preparedness for this coup. [PSEPC Code 0880; Ref. Code
5000020336]. The documents show that a total of $40 million was
spent on this attack. [$20 million from Canada and $20 million from
Quebec.] Secret bi-lateral agreements between Canada and Quebec
laid out funding arrangements. Canada was to provide 52% and
Quebec 48% of the policing funds.

Indian Affairs has no authority in policing. It was strictly illegal –
a blatant violation of Canadian law and a misappropriation of
Indigenous resources and Canadian taxpayers’ dollars at a time,
when many Indigenous communities are suffering from third world
conditions, without even clean water to drink. Despite the huge
number of blanks where crucial information was “whited-out” from
the documents, it was still possible to piece together the ghoulish
story that’s going to haunt the corporate government players to
their graves.

To set it up, the culprits, Indian affairs, appointed a third party
manager, PriceWaterhouseCoopers [who were allegedly paid over
$1.5 million a year in fees over several years], to divert Kanehsatake
community funds towards this phony ‘coup d’etat’ [MCK &
Minister No. 186-2004-00069].

In a March 24, 2005 memo for the Deputy Minister of PSEPC, Chantal
“Public-Wrong” Bernier, the Assistant Deputy Minister, pointed out
that diversion of funds was “illegal” but went ahead and signed the
authority anyway, “because the Privy Council Office and Treasury
Board recognized their authority in the fall of 2003”. The first check
was recorded by PWC as having been cut in July 2003. [Denise
Charron PSEPC Aboriginal Policing Directorate].

As there was no way for Indian Affairs to fund such a “military”
attack of Indigenous people, Indian Affairs made the first payment
to get it started. They diverted money out of core funding for
Kanehsatake into cars, weaponry, bullets, hotels, meals and
everything needed for their hired “mercenaries” to play their
lethal game. Their mission was to take down the Police Commission,
the police force, the cigarette trade, take over the police station and
council house and to bring the Mohawks into submission. They
were instructed to protect James Gabriel’s four chiefs. They had a
“hit list” of Mohawks who were to be taken down “on sight”.
Whatever happened to Canada’s boasting about the “rule of law”?
Canada abrogated the “death penalty” years ago. These executions
appear to have been ordered and approved at the highest levels of
the Canadian government.

This operation was given a blank check by Indian Affairs, Public
Safety & Emergency Preparedness, Treasury Board and the Privy
Council Office under the guidance of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Kanehsatake was kept as a separate file, directly under the Prime
Ministers, first, Jean Chretien [now of Heenan Blaikie] and then
Paul Martin.

The man in charge was Eric “Alter Boy” Maldoff, of Heenan Blaikie,
Chief Federal Negotiator for Canada “with” Kanehsatake, according
to his own website. In a Question Period Note, by Jean Chartrand
& David Hallman, of Aboriginal Policing Directorate, dated May 30th
2005, they referred to a television report aired on Radio Canada on
May 27 2005, “Chief Mediator, Eric Maldoff, appointed in 1995 by then
Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, received $429,248 last year alone”.
They went on to state that, “Mr. Maldof would have received more
than $2 million for his services. Ten years later, Kanehsatake is still
on the “front pages” of the written press”. A reliable source stated
that in 2003 and 2004 Maldoff was making $1.5 million a year from
Kanehsatake funds.

On the 13th January 2005 there was a conference call of the “Federal
Working Group on Kanehsatake”. Present for Indian Affairs were Eric
Maldoff, Walter “Wailing Wall” Walling, Christian “Lucifer” Rouleau,
Andre “Turn” Cote, Stuart “Swan Song” Swanson and Paul “Shoots-
First-Asks-Questions-Later” Leblanc; for PSEPC it was Jean
“Trashes-Human-Rights” Chartrand; and for the Privy Council
Office it was Yvan “Tag-Along-and-Say-Yes” Dery.

This was followed by Assembly of First Nations [a colonial
government invention], Ghyslain “Flaunts-His-Low-Self-Esteem”
Picard, who requested that he, Steven “Mutant” Bonspille and James
“How-High-Do-You-Want-Me-to-Jump” Gabriel [the corrupt grand
chief of Kanehsatake], have a meeting. Stephen Bonspille had been a
“dissident” with Pearl Bonspille and John Harding trying to stop
the band council-colonial government corruption. Did somebody
make him an offer he could not refuse? He’s the only one who
turned his coat.

Ghislain wanted to broker the forthcoming election that took
place in June 2005. Why were police dollars being used to run
an election? Everyone knew that the government’s “point man”,
James Gabriel, could not win. He was a dud for his stupidity,
his depravity and his partnership with a convicted criminal wanted
all over Ontario. He was a soft hot potato! Even so, James’ legal
fees of over $1 million and Communications Strategy of $250,000
was paid by the government [Chartrand, Hallman, Question
Period Note APD May 30, 2005]. Quebec wanted Stephen Bonspille
in. The election got rigged so that Stephen Bonspille and the six
James Gabriel “groupies” would win. Everyone knew it was
“fixed”.

Before the election, Stephen Bonspille, John Harding and Pearl
Bonspille filed a $90 million suit [T-436-04]. Stevie “No Wonder”
Reynolds just happen to walk in to do it all “pro bono”. It looks
like Stevie’s handlers do not want this to go to trial. [Annik
“How-Much-More-Pain-Can-We-Put-On-the-Mohawks” Pelletier
of Justice Canada, to Martin “If-This-Keeps-Up-We’ll-Have-to-
Resort-to-Water-Boarding” Reiher, April 7/05].

On January 11th 2008, Pearl took a trip to Ottawa to make sure
the disclosures go in and no side deals are cut.

Chantal “Spits-at-the-Law” Bernier of PSEPC reported to Sheila
“I-Forgot-to-Wear-My-Glasses-When-I-Looked-at-that” Fraser,
the Auditor General of Canada, that vehicles were illegally
purchased with band funds. Sheila “Suddenly-Remembered”
that it was not in her mandate and referred Bernier to “National
Allegations and Complaints Coordinator of Indian Affairs”- the
very foxes who were stealing the eggs from the chicken house!
[Jan. 11, 2006, Bernier to Fraser].

How does a criminal organization operate? There is a “handler”
way up there somewhere, controlling all the “assets” or
underlings, who go out and do the dirty work. In this case, it
looks like Eric Maldoff of Heenan Blaikie, which are also the legal
counsel for the Sulpicians who are in a big land dispute with the
Mohawks of Kanehsatake. [Hey, guys! Haven’t you ever heard
of conflict of interest?]

Maldoff coordinates all this wickedness from the Prime Minister’s
Office. The assets are trained and controlled by their “handlers”.
It’s the old colonial hierarchy corruption of moral principles
system. He has “spotters” in Indian Affairs, PSEPC, Treasury
Board and other departments who get orders from him and
report back to him.

The Assembly of First Nations and band councils are another
set of “assets”. In Kanehsatake his assets would be James
Gabriel, Stephen Bonspille and others.

When Steven got into office as the new Grand Chief, he did not
appear to be doing any work. He never had any portfolios. He
just sat there and collected a pay check. That was the deal. In
the meantime, the real asset is James Gabriel who stays behind
the curtain and gets his strings pulled by Eric Maldoff. All these
assets are real liabilities for the real people, the Ongwehonwe.

These documents reveal that there was a master plan to take
us out. They will do anything, especially if it’s confusing. It
doesn’t bother them one little bit if it’s criminal. Why should it?
They’ve got the fix in with the PMO and the Justice Department.
So anyone who thinks they can get a straight deal from
Canadian courts is dreaming. As far as we can see, this plan
is still in effect, by hook or by a lot of crooks. The Kanehsatake
land claim is a farce, especially when Heenan Blaikie sits on all
sides.

There is presently a forensic audit being conducted on all of
the perpetrators – PWC, co-managers Hartal of Ottawa, the
Kanehsatake band council, Eric Maldoff [of Heenan Blaikie],
Indian Affairs [Andre Cote, Walter Walling and Pierre Nepton
of Indian Affairs in Quebec], Solicitor General’s Office [David
Hallman, now at Economic Development, Indian Affairs], the
Prime Minister’s Office, Ryan W. Mansour, Policy Advisor,
Quebec Caucus, to name a few.

The forensic audit addresses a crying need. The whole
infrastructure dealing with Ongwehonwe is so horrendously
corrupt that a band aid is not going to fix it. What do you
think? With so much corruption, is there a chance for us?

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News