Nick Martin
May 15, 2018 3:55 PM
Moments after Manitoba Metis Federation president David Chartrand walked out of a last-ditch meeting Tuesday, MMF lawyers renewed preparations to take legal action against the government led by Premier Brian Pallister.
"We're going to find ourselves in a courtroom trying to resolve this," Chartrand told reporters after his brief (less than 20 minutes) meeting at the legislature with Crown Services Minister Cliff Cullen. "We'll leave it up to a judge who's right and who's wrong."
Chartrand speculated it would take about a week to file all the paperwork necessary to ask for a judicial review to quash Pallister's order to Manitoba Hydro in March to kill a 50-year, $67.5-million land entitlement deal with the MMF.
Chartrand said Cullen's refusal Tuesday to give any ground shows Pallister is king, and no cabinet minister has any authority.
Nick Martin
May 15, 2018 3:55 PM
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