Grand Chief responds to �The Kahnawake Mohawk Council vs. basic civil rights� editorial

11/07/2014

The Mohawk Council of Kahnaw�:ke (MCK) wishes to advise the community that Grand Chief Michael Ahr�hron Delisle, Jr. has sent a response to an editorial in the National Post entitled �The Kahnawake Mohawk council vs. basic human rights� published in the Thursday, November 5th edition of the paper.

The editorial writer, Marni Soupcoff, hopes that the Canadian courts will �not tolerate legal discrimination based on race.�

�There is no way that we were going to allow this uninformed attack on what we consider the integrity of our community to go without responding,� said Grand Chief Michael Ahr�hron Delisle, Jr.  �Because the National Post is published as a national newspaper, its editorials carry a certain level of influence across Canada. As such, we have an obligation to correct certain misinformation and to explain our position and the history behind it.�

The complete letter to the editor is attached. It has been submitted to the National Post for their consideration.