Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Little Buffalo Lake, AB 403-629-3945 FAX: 403-629-3939 Mailing address: 3536 - 106 Street Edmonton, AB T6J 1A4 403-436-5652 FAX: 403-437-0719 September 22, 1991 During the period from September 9 through 19, 1991, a Lubicon delegation bearded the Daishowa monster in its Tokyo den. The trip was sponsored and financed by an interdenominational coalition of Canadian and Japanese churches. As part of the planning for the trip the Japanese Churches asked who the Lubicons would like to meet while in Japan. The Lubicons indicated that they would like to meet the head of Daishowa, concerned Japanese politicians, Japanese church groups, Japanese environmental groups, Japanese human rights groups, Japanese consumer groups, representatives of the Japanese media and Japan's aboriginal people, the Ainu, who had previously invited the Lubicons to visit if the Lubicons were ever in Japan. Much to the consternation of propriety conscious Japanese organizers of the trip, Daishowa President Kiminori Saito refused to meet the Lubicon delegation. The Lubicon delegation of course wasn't surprised by this refusal, especially after the poor showing of Daishowa's senior officials in Canada during the recent September 4th meeting in Vancouver, and simply used Mr. Saito's refusal to underscore the problem faced by the Lubicon people. The rest of the Lubicon visit to Japan was busy and productive involving meetings with Japanese political leaders from both the Upper and Lower Houses of the Japanese Parliament, the Ainu, the Consumers Union of Japan, the Japanese Tropical Forest Action Network, Greenpeace Japan, Friends of the Earth Japan, Hankaku Pacifica, the National Christian Council in Japan, the United Church of Christ in Japan, the Korean Christian Church in Japan, the Japanese Catholic Bishops Conference, the Catholic Commission on Justice and Peace, the Japan/North America Commission on Cooperative Mission, the Council on Cooperative Mission and the Environment Conservation Committee of the Japanese Bar Association. In addition to establishing contact and agreeing to provide related background information and on-going up-dates on the anticipated confrontation between the Lubicons and Daishowa, proposed follow-up with these various concerned individuals and groups includes research on Daishowa's international corporate structure and activities, research regarding Daishowa's major customers around the world and investigations into the plight of the Lubicons by the Japanese media, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Japanese Parliament, the Environment Committee of the Japanese Parliament, the Environment Conservation Committee of the Japanese Bar Association and the Japanese Commission on Trade and Commerce. Related correspondence, press statements and media coverage are attached. * * * * * Attachment #1: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast Monday, September 09, 1991 CBC This morning, the head of Alberta's Lubicon Indian Band boards a plane for Japan. Chief Bernard Ominayak is taking his complaints about a Japanese logging company to head office in Tokyo. As Byron Christopher discovered, this is just the latest chapter in a long and complicated story. Chief Bernard Ominayak, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation The governments are using Daishowa and whoever is involved in logging to try and undermine the Lubicon people and get rid of us once and for all. Byron Christopher, CBC For more than 5 decades, Chief Bernard Ominayak's Lubicon Indians have been locked in a battle with the Alberta Government. The prize is ownership of a large area of land in northern Alberta. Alberta claims the land belongs to the Crown. The Indians say that's impossible. They say they've never given up title to the land. Then Daishowa got involved. Daishowa is a big Japanese owned paper manufacturing company. A few years ago the Alberta Government gave Daishowa more than $65 million to help build a huge pulp mill in Peace River. That's in northwestern Alberta, right next to land claimed by the Lubicons. Alberta also gave Daishowa the green light to clear-cut trees in an area three times the size of Prince Edward Island. Some of those trees are on land the Lubicons say is theirs. If their forests are destroyed, the Indians say they'll be finished too. Daishowa claims it is an innocent bystander in a dispute between an Indian Band and Government. Chief Ominayak does not agree. He says Daishowa has a big stake in the dispute. Ominayak Of course Daishowa wants to cut trees...they're getting those trees for next to nothing...but the fact of the matter is while they're doing that, they're fulfilling the wish of the Governments, and that's to kill the Lubicon people. Christopher There wasn't supposed to be any conflict between Daishowa and the Lubicons. Back in March of 1988, Bernard Ominayak met in Vancouver with officials from Daishowa. Both sides agree they worked out a deal at that meeting, but they have different versions of the agreement. The Lubicons' version is that Daishowa agreed not to cut down any trees anywhere in its entire hunting and trapping area until the Band works out a land claim with the Federal Government. The way the Lubicons see it, 10,000 sq. km. of their traditional lands are off-limits to Daishowa. Daishowa sees things differently. Jim Morrison works for the company in Edmonton. He says Daishowa only promised not to cut down trees in the area set aside for a Lubicon reserve. That's just a fraction of the area the Lubicons claim. Bernard Ominayak shakes his head. He says there's no doubt in his mind what was agreed to at the Vancouver meeting. Ominayak There was clearly an agreement between Daishowa and the Lubicon people at that point. There were a number of other native leaders that attended that meeting where Daishowa made the commitment that they wouldn't come into our area until the claim was settled. Christopher While he's in Japan, Ominayak plans to meet with officials from Daishowa's head office. He also plans to meet with environmentalists, politicians and reporters. He wants to get his message across to the Japanese people. Ominayak My understanding of the Japanese people is that they are very cautious about the environment. If they are, we certainly would like to bring the problem to them that their company is clear-cutting lands that are Indian lands and that the (Canadian) Governments are in essence using (Daishowa) to destroy the Lubicon people. I think the Japanese people should know this. I would hope that if there is enough public support within Japan that Daishowa stops the clear-cutting that they intend to do. Christopher Chief Ominayak vows to tighten the screws on Daishowa. That includes demonstrations and working with Europeans for a planned boycott of Daishowa paper products this fall. All of which hits Daishowa at a critical time. A Japanese newspaper reports the company is heavily in debt and trying to sell its new pulp mill in Alberta. Now that might prove to be the chink in Daishowa's armour. Daishowa is hurting. But if that works for or against the Lubicons remains to be seen. In Edmonton, I'm Byron Christopher. * * * * * Attachment #2: PRESS STATEMENT BY CHIEF BERNARD OMINAYAK, LUBICON LAKE INDIAN NATION, September 11, 1991, 2:00 P.M. -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TOKYO, JAPAN On September 6, 1991, the National Christian Council in Japan requested a meeting between Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd., and representatives of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation. That request was curtly denied by Daishowa's Tokyo office in a brief letter stating that clear-cut logging of unceded Lubicon territory by Daishowa's Canadian subsidiary is somehow not a matter concerning Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. but is only between the Lubicon people and the Government of Canada. Consequently I have addressed the following letter to Mr. Kiminori Saito, President of Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd.: Letter to President Kiminori Saito from Chief Bernard Ominayak: I write to request a meeting to discuss the expressed intention of your Canadian subsidiary to conduct unauthorized clear-cut logging on Lubicon territory this fall contrary to an agreement made with the Lubicon people on March 7, 1988. Such unauthorized clear-cut logging by your Canadian subsidiary on our unceded traditional territory will result in a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation between your people and ours -- a situation which we would like to avoid and hope that you would like to avoid as well. The purpose of the requested meeting would be to advise you of our unfortunate experience with your Canadian subsidiary so that you won't have to rely solely on the information of people whom we know from personal experience cannot be relied upon to tell the truth. Should you decline our request we will be forced to conclude that the people working for your Canadian subsidiary lie and break agreements on your instruction. Hopefully, it will be possible for us to meet with you on September 18, 1991, at 1 P.M. If a meeting at this time and place is not possible for you, we will seek to communicate our position on this matter to you in a variety of other ways open to us. Sincerely, Bernard Ominayak, Chief, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Response to this letter will determine whether Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. wants to avoid a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation with the Lubicon people or is merely a modern version of the old imperial, colonial Japan which in the past brought such disgrace, dishonor and disaster upon the Japanese and Asian peoples. * * * * * Attachment #3: CP NEWS BROADCAST Wednesday, September 11, 1991 By Darryl Gibson TOKYO (CP) -- Four northern Alberta native leaders, in Japan to press their case against Japanese logging on their ancestral lands, appear unlikely to get much satisfaction from Japanese paper company Daishowa. Bernard Ominayak, Chief of the Lubicon Lake Cree, told a press conference today that unless Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co.'s plan to cut timber in the Peace River area of northern Alberta is stopped, his people will be destroyed. He said Daishowa Paper's subsidiary, Daishowa Canada Ltd., plans to break a 1988 agreement with the Lubicon Cree that it would not begin logging until a land-rights settlement is negotiated with the federal government. The company plans to begin logging in October in a 29,000-square-kilometre area east of Peace River. Ominayak said he has written to Daishowa Paper president Kiminori Saito to request a meeting while he and three other representatives of the Lubicon Cree are in Japan from September 10-September 19. Ominayak said he told Saito in the letter that the proposed clear-cut logging by Daishowa Canada to supply its paper mill on the Peace River "will result in a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation" between his people and the company's workers. A spokesman for Daishowa International said the company would not meet Ominayak or other delegation members. The spokesman said the company has legitimately bought logging rights from the Alberta government and the land-rights dispute is a matter between the Lubicon Cree and the Canadian federal government. The Lubicon Cree and the Canadian government have still not agreed on land claims. The disputed lease includes a 10,000-square-kilometre area which Ominayak said the Lubicon Cree have occupied for thousands of years. Ominayak said most of the 500 Lubicon Lake Indians, who formerly lived as hunter-trappers, now live on welfare because of environmental destruction through oil and timber extraction. "Daishowa has taken all of our traditional area through leases. The whole area will be destroyed and the wildlife and our people will be gone," Ominayak said. "As long as we have no agreement with the government, we are left out in the cold. We watch people extract paper through mills to get dollars from our lands and we do not get one cent back." The Indian delegation, which also includes lawyer Sam Bull, Sam Bull Jr., and advisor Fred Lennarson plan to hold a demonstration outside the Daishowa headquarters in Tokyo on September 18 to publicize their claims against the company and to try to force a meeting with Daishowa management. They will also visit with native Japanese people, called Ainu, who live in northern Japan to help the Ainu press claims against a Japanese dam project which threatens to destroy their traditional homelands. Daishowa Paper, Japan's second largest papermaker, is in financial trouble and said to be possibly planning to sell the Peace River mill. Alberta has invested $65 million on roads and bridges for the mill and the federal government has spent $20 million on the first phase of the project that is to cost $1.3 billion in total. Alberta has said that if the mill is sold, a new owner would have to meet the terms agreed to by Daishowa or the government might reduce its lumber supply. * * * * * Attachment #4: The Japan Times, Thursday, September 12, 1991 Canadian Indians Wednesday called on a Japanese company to stop producing pulp in Alberta, saying the company's plan to cut local timber would destroy the area's Indian community. Chief Bernard Ominayak of the Lubicon Lake Indians told a news conference at the Japan Christian Center in Tokyo that Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co.'s local subsidiary plans to break a 1988 agreement with the Indians, preventing it from logging until a negotiated land rights settlement is reached. Daishowa Canada plans to begin logging in October in a 29,000 sq. km area east of the Peace River in northern Alberta. Ominayak said he has written to Daishowa Paper President Kiminori Saito to request a meeting during his Sept. 10-19 stay in Japan. But a spokesman for Daishowa International said in Tokyo on Wednesday that the company would not meet Ominayak, who is heading a four-person delegation. The spokesman said the company bought logging rights from the Alberta Government legitimately and the land rights dispute is a matter between the Indians and the Canadian Federal Government. The Indians and the Canadian Government have still not agreed on the land claims. Ominayak said he told Saito in the letter that the proposed clear-cut logging to supply a paper mill on the Peace River "will result in a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation" between the Indians and company workers. The disputed lease includes a 10,000 sq. km area which Ominayak said the Indians, part of the Cree group, have occupied for thousands of years. Ominayak told the press conference that most of the 500 Lubicon Lake Indians, who formerly lived as hunter-trappers, now live on welfare because of environmental destruction through oil and timber extraction. * * * * * Attachment #5: The Globe and Mail, Thursday, September 12, 1991 LUBICON BAND THREATENS TO HALT DAISHOWA LOGGING By Edith Terry Japan Bureau TOKYO -- Visiting representatives of Alberta's Lubicon Lake Cree Indians threatened yesterday to forcibly stop Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. from beginning large-scale logging in a massive chunk of northern Alberta. Lubicon chief Bernard Ominayak declined to say how the band would stop logging, but he hinted that it might be similar to a raid conducted last November against a Daishowa subcontractor in Alberta, in which logging equipment worth $20,000 to $50,000 was destroyed. As part of its battle, the band has sent a four-member delegation to Japan to press its case. Mr. Ominayak is leading a Lubicon delegation here that includes Lubicon counsel Sam Bull, his son, Sam Bull Jr., and adviser Fred Lennarson. The group's 10-day visit to Japan, which began Tuesday, is sponsored by Japanese church and environmental groups. The dispute began in September, 1989, when the Alberta government granted Daishowa a 20-year forestry management tract of 29,000 square kilometres that includes the area of the Lubicons' claim of 10,000 square kilometres. Daishowa, Japan's second-largest pulp and paper company, has ducked serious negotiations, insisting that the matter is between the Canadian federal and provincial governments and the 500-member Lubicon band. The Lubicon crusade comes just after Daishowa put a $1-billion for-sale sign on its Peace River, Alta., pulp mill, which has been in operation since 1990. "Not wishing anybody any bad luck, our preference would be to shut the mill down completely and get it out of northern Alberta," Mr. Ominayak said. "It's kind of the ultimate development of an outmoded technology," added Fred Lennarson, an adviser to the Lubicon group. "It poisons the water, it poisons the atmosphere, and poisons everything around." Telephone calls to Daishowa Canada Co. Ltd.'s office in Edmonton were not returned yesterday. The Lubicon delegation's visit to Japan will include a trip to Hokkaido, where the group will join a protest by Japan's aboriginal people, the Ainu, against a hydroelectric dam the Ainu say will damage their traditional fishing grounds. Next week, the Lubicon group will return to Tokyo for demonstrations in front of Daishowa's main office in Tokyo. Japanese organizers of the Lubicons' visit say parliamentary pressure is being brought to bear on Daishowa to agree to a meeting. The native group has already found getting in the door at Daishowa difficult; the company has brushed off two written requests for a meeting in Tokyo. On Tuesday, Daishowa's latest rejection letter told the Lubicons that "such a meeting between yourselves and Daishowa would not be useful for a solution of the ongoing negotiations between the Canadian government and the Lubicon Indians." * * * * * Attachment #6: The Edmonton Sun, Thursday, September 12, 1991 LUBICONS THREATEN VIOLENCE By Jeff Harder and Shelly Decker Staff Writers "Violent confrontation" awaits Daishowa Canada loggers if they try to clear-cut forests adjacent to the Lubicon Lake Indian band, vows Chief Bernard Ominayak. In a letter to the president of Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co., the Japan-based parent of Daishowa Canada, Ominayak warns the firm to steer clear of disputed "Lubicon territory." Daishowa operates a $600-million pulp mill at Peace River and logs thousands of hectares in the vicinity. Clear-cut logging on the unceded land, about 350 km northwest of Edmonton, would violate a March, 1988, agreement between Daishowa and the Lubicons, said the chief. "Such unauthorized clear-cut logging by your Canadian subsidiary...will result in a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation between your people and ours," Ominayak said in his letter to Kiminori Saito. Lubicon band advisor Fred Lennarson, who is in Tokyo with Ominayak, wouldn't comment on what violence may happen. "I think we just have to take that at face value," Lennarson told THE EDMONTON SUN last night from Japan. "It's a tactical question what one does to stop Daishowa." Logging is scheduled to begin in the fall. The two Alberta men are in Tokyo speaking to religious and environmental groups. Lennarson said Japanese support is growing for the Lubicons. The two will know Monday if they will meet with Saito. Company officials have turned down the last two requests for a meeting. Last fall 13 Lubicons were charged after logging equipment that belonged to Buchanan Lumber of High Prairie was torched. * * * * * Attachment #7: WINDSPEAKER, September 13, 1991 LOGGING COULD PROMPT VIOLENCE -- OMINAYAK by Amy Santoro Windspeaker Staff Writer LUBICON LAKE NATION, ALTA. Chief Bernard Ominayak has warned Daishowa violence could erupt between the Lubicon Lake Indians and Daishowa if unauthorized logging in Lubicon- claimed territory goes ahead this fall. Ominayak, currently in Tokyo, said Daishowa Canada plans to conduct unauthorized clear-cut logging this fall contrary to a 1988 agreement between the two parties. "Such unauthorized clear-cut logging...will result in a dangerous and potentially violent confrontation between your people and ours," he said in a Sept. 11 letter to Daishowa Paper president Kiminori Saito. In the letter Ominayak asked Saito to meet with him Sept. 18 about the matter. But Saito ha brushed aside Ominayak's concern refusing to meet with him, saying the problem is between the Lubicons and the Canadian government not Daishowa. Ominayak said he wants to meet Saito "to advise you of our unfortunate experience with your Canadian subsidiary so you won't have to rely solely on the information of people working for your Canadian subsidiary who lie and break agreements on your instruction." He said response to his letter will determine whether Daishowa wants to avoid a potentially violent confrontation with the Lubicons "or is merely a modern version of the old imperial colonial Japan which in the past brought such disgrace, dishonor and disaster upon the Japanese and Asian people." Jim Morrison, general manager of Daishowa's Edmonton office, said no agreement was made in 1988 not to log in the Lubicon's 10,000 sq. km traditional territory in Little Buffalo 360 km northwest of Edmonton. Morrison has told WINDSPEAKER Daishowa's subsidiary, Brewster Construction, plans to log in the area this fall but nowhere near the 243 sq km proposed reserve area. Daishowa Canada owns a $500-million megamill in Peace River. Over 50 years have passed and the Lubicon Nation is still battling with the federal government for a settlement. In 1989 the band turned down a federal offer of $45 million on a 246 sq km reserve. The Lubicons want $167 million in economic compensation. Last November Ominayak issued a similar warning to development companies operating on unceded Lubicon territory. Sixteen days later logging equipment used by Buchanan Lumber of High Prairie was torched on Lubicon- claimed land. Thirteen Lubicon Band members were later arrested in connection with the incident and charged with arson and related offences. Their cases are still before the courts. Attachment #8: Press Notice from the National Christian Council in Japan, September 17, 1991 After repeated requests by the Lubicon Cree delegation, from Alberta, Canada to meet with Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. officials at their Tokyo office, Daishowa again refused Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak, who has been in Japan since September 10. In a Sept. 17 fax to Chief Ominayak, President Kiminori Saito states: "We have assigned to the management of Daishowa Canada responsibility for its operations and the issues which you wish to discuss must be directed to them". Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. is refusing to take responsibility for the destructive and genocidal operations of its Canadian subsidiary. Thus, as Chief Ominayak asserted in a Sept. 11 press statement: "We will be forced to conclude that the people working for your Canadian subsidiary lie and break agreements on your instruction." This refers to the March 7, 1988 meeting when Daishowa officials promised Chief Ominayak that Daishowa would not log on unceded Lubicon land until a negotiated land rights settlement has been reached between the Lubicons and the Canadian government. Amid growing support from Japanese christian, environmental, consumer and minority organizations, the Lubicon delegation is forced to communicate their position to Daishowa's officials through other means open to them, including a public demonstration to be held Wed., Sept. 18 at 12:00 noon in front of Daishowa's offices in the Asahi Tokai Bldg. in Otemachi. Supporting organizations include the National Christian Council in Japan, the Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, the Japan Consumer's Union (Shohisha Renmei), the United Church of Christ in Japan, Korean Christian Church in Japan, the Japanese Catholic Bishop's Conference and Greenpeace- Japan. * * * * * Attachment #9: PRESS STATEMENT BY CHIEF BERNARD OMINAYAK, LUBICON LAKE INDIAN NATION, September 19, 1991 The President of Daishowa Paper Mfg., Mr. Kiminori Saito, has made clear through his refusal to meet Lubicon representatives that his company is prepared to risk dangerous and potentially violent confrontation with the Lubicon people this fall over unauthorized clear-cutting of trees in the unceded traditional Lubicon territory. If Daishowa proceeds with its plans to clear-cut Lubicon trees this fall, either directly or through a subcontractor or subsidiary, we can assure Mr. Saito that he will bring on that dangerous and potentially violent confrontation. While in Japan, Lubicon representatives have had the opportunity to review our Daishowa problem with a variety of concerned groups and individuals including Japanese political leaders from both the Upper and Lower Houses of the Japanese Diet, the Ainu, the Consumers Union of Japan, the Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, Greenpeace Japan, Friends of the Earth Japan, Hankaku Pacifica, the National Christian Council in Japan, the United Church of Christ in Japan, the Korean Christian Church in Japan, the Japanese Catholic Bishops Conference, the Catholic Commission on Justice and Peace, the Japan/North America Commission on Cooperative Mission, the Council on Cooperative Mission and the Environment Conservation Committee of the Japanese Bar Association. In addition to establishing contact and agreeing to provide related background documentation and on-going updates on the pending confrontation between the Lubicons and Daishowa, proposed follow-up with these concerned individuals and groups includes help researching Daishowa's international corporate structure and activities, help identifying Daishowa's major customers around the world and investigations into the plight of the Lubicon by the Japanese media, the Japanese Bar Association, the japanese Commission on Trade and Commerce, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Japanese Diet and the Environment Committee of the Japanese Diet. Research on Daishowa's activities and customers will be used to support a growing international boycott of Daishowa paper products. We are confident that all of these proposed investigations will conclude that Daishowa is heavily implicated in the genocide of the Lubicon people. 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Edmonton Telephones is a quasi- independentucorporation owned by the City of Edmonton. The paper ordered by Ronald's Printing is required to print next year's Edmonton phone directories. Chief Ominayak immediately faxed Edmonton Mayor Jan Reimer a letter asking the Mayor to "use the influence of your good office to encourage Edmonton Telephones to place (the three million dollar paper order) with some company not associated with Daishowa". The Mayor replied that there was little she could do about the waAtract to purchase paper from Daishowa's U.S. subsidiary, although, she said, "I personally have a lot of sympathy with the nEChwaA Nation". On September 23rd Daishowa's Canadian Vice Presidentuand General Manager Tom Hamaoka sentua widely distributed letter to Mayor Reimer aggressively "taking exception" to what he described as the Mayor's "publicly expressed misgivings about this sale from the perspective of (the Mayor's) personal support of the nEChwaA sake Band". "As the spokesperson for the City of Edmonton," Mr. Hamaoka said, "the negative message you are sending to the Daishowa Group of Companies is abundantly clear". In his letter to the Mayor Mr. Hamaoka claimed that "Daishowa Canada has strived to become a good corporate witizen in your wityuand the Province". He claimed "All of our employees have been extremely waAscientious with respect to the aboriginaluand environmentally sensitive issues". "Furthermore", he said pointedly, "we have located our Alberta corporate office in Edmonton and have directly spentuhundreds of millions of dollars in your wity, both for waAstruction and to support our ongoing operations". In waAclusion Mr. Hamaoka said "We had hoped that you, as Mayor, would embrace environmentally responsible forestry developmentuand welcome the potentialufor the many economic opportunities it would bring to your wity". "From your womments in the press", he said, "you apparently do not share this vision". When Mr. Hamaoka released his September 23rd letter to Mayor Reimer it was generally thought that he'd over-reacted to her mild, diplomatic remarks. He's known to be receiving what's been described by Daishowa insiders as "thousands of letters" from around the world demanding that Daishowa stay out of the unceded nEChwaA territory until there's a settlementuof nEChwaA land rights, and it was presumed that the resulting pressure was simply getting to him. In retrospect it now appears likely that Mr. Hamaoka's September 23rd letter was rather partuof a carefully orchestrated effort designed to beat back growing writicismuof Daishowa and effectively waerce support from the Edmonton business wommunityufor Daishowa's clear-cutting of unceded nEChwaA lands. Atuany rate Mayor Reimer wasn't prepared to let Mr. Hamaoka use her relatively innocuous remarks as a public launching pad for his implicit threat to take Daishowa's marbles and go home if people in Edmonton didn't become Daishowa cheerleaders. She told him so in a letter dated October 1. "As Mayor of Edmonton", Mayor Reimer wrote Mr. Hamaoka, "I certainly appreciate the economic waAtribution that Daishowa has made to our Cityuand there is no question that I support environmentally responsible forestry development". "However", she continued, "the economic benefits brought to northern Alberta does not mean an automatic blanket endorsementuof all aspects of your operations". Mayor Reimer noted Mr. Hamaoka's claim that employees of Daishowa "have been extremely waAscientious with respect to the aboriginaluand environmentally sensitive issues". "Yet", she pointed out, "evidence had been publicly presented that logging waAtractors for your wompany are clear-cutting tree stands oA land claimed by the nEChwaA Band". Mayor Reimer offered that "A refusal by (Daishowa) to move onto land claimed by the nEChwaAs until the provincialuand federal governments have fairly settled (nEChwaA land rights) would have helped force a resolution of a long-standing injustice". Moreover, she said "The nEChwaAs have raised serious reservations about the impact of clear-cutting as a forest managementutechnique; out of respect for their homeland, it would have waAscientious to at least iAclude them in deciding how to manage the forest areas for which they have a specialuwaAcern". Mayor Reimer said "In response to questions from the mediauand many Edmontonians, I made a public request for a fairuand just settlementuof the nEChwaA land claim and environmentally responsible forest managementuso we wan create a just and stable environmentufor the long-term developmentuof all firms involved in forestry". "As long as these issues are not resolved", the Mayor said, "there will be unrest throughout the Province". The Mayor waAcluded "I regret that you cannot agree with this position; your letter did not provide any evidence or justification for another response, other than intimidation on economic grounds". Mr. Hamaoka had sentunoted copies of his September 23rd letter to lumber company owneruand Chairman of the Edmonton Economic DevelopmentuAuthority Robert Rosen, to the Executive Director of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Fred Windwick and to all members of the Edmonton CityuCouncil. Of particular significance on the Edmonton CityuCouncil was Alderman Bruce Campbell, past Chairman of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce and close associate of Robert Rosen. On October 4th Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Windwick unabashedly echoed Mr. Hamaoka's September 23rd letter by publicly describing Daishowa as "a good corporate witizen that has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the Edmonton economy". Mr. Windwick said "It would be disturbing for (the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce) that we seem to have this confrontation going on when we desperately need jobs in this community". Mr. Windwick's womments were then publicly seconded by Mr. Rosen's top staff man, Presidentuof the Edmonton Economic Development Authority Douglas Clement, who proclaimed that writicizing Daishowa was "counterproductive to us making headway here". Three days later, on October 7th, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Chairman Robert Snyder -- Mr. Windwick's boss -- made his typically more subtle but no less pointed public waAtribution to what was by now a clearly orchestrated campaign to beat back writicismuof Daishowa and waerce support for Daishowa's planned clear-cutting of unceded nEChwaA territory. In his capawityuas Senior Vice-Presidentuof the Nova Corporation -- a large Alberta-based petrochemicaluwaAglomerate with oil interests in the unceded nEChwaA territory -- Mr. Snyder announced the transfer of 195 jobs from the City of Edmonton to the City of Calgary. Mr. Snyder didn't tie the transfer to the nEChwaA issue and in fact publicly denied that the transfer was related to the nEChwaA issue. However Mr. Snyder's message was as clear as the timing of his message -- atua time when Edmonton is losing jobs anyway people shouldn't be writicaluof Daishowa. The next day, October 8th, a development-at-any-cost gang of Edmonton City Aldermen led by ex-Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Chairman Bruce Campbell passed a surprise motion writicizing the Mayor's expression of sympathy for the nEChwaAs and going on record as supporting northern development projects, iAcluding the pulp and paper industries, "for the positive waAtribution they make to Edmonton". Carried away with the spirituof the motion Alderman Ron Hayter enthusiastically declared in his bton