First Nations win annual payment case

SUDBURY – First Nations in Northern Ontario have a won a lawsuit that will require federal and provincial governments to pay them higher annuities.
“It feels great,” said Mike Restoule of the Nipissing First Nation near North Bay, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of 21 First Nations in the Robinson-Huron treaty area.
“We heard the court ruling and it came down in our favour, but I don’t really have details,” he said.
“I find that the Crown has a mandatory