GC27 Project North (1977P655)

WHEREAS we endorse the right of the native people to help shape the kind of regional development which is taking place in the land to which they lay claim; and

WHEREAS we support the right of the native people to have their land claims heard and settled fairly and without the threat of massive developments; and

WHEREAS we agree that the Berger Report, “Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland,” is an important and constructive contribution to the subject of native land claims and northern development:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the General Council:

3. CONTINUE to make public its support for Project North, using all the means of communication available to it,
   1. through all the courts of the church and the local churches within their jurisdiction; and
   2. through the agencies of the secular community:
4. INSIST by means of i) and ii) of (c) that the Berger Report, “Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland,” be made readily available to the Canadian public, so that the issues of native land claims and northern development may be debated fully by both the Canadian public and the federal parliament.

ROP Page Ref. 1977 ROP, p. 59, 87, 109-110, 243