31420-12-1 SAWRIDGE, Indian vs. ROLAND, Twinn et al

F43
1Proceedings taken in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Law Courts, Edmonton, Alberta
2
3April 5, 2012 Afternoon Session
4
5The Honourable Court of Queen’s Bench
6Justice Thomas of Alberta
7
8J.L. Hutchison For the Office of the Public Trustee
9M.S. Poretti For the Trustees of the 1985 Sawridge Trust
10 D.C.E Bonora For the Sawridge Trustees
11 E.H. Molstad, Q.C. For the Sawridge First Nation
12 E.J. Kindrake For the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in
13 Northern Development
14 A. Meads Court Clerk
15
16
17 Discussion
18
19 THE COURT: Afternoon.
20
21 MR. MOLSTAD: Afternoon, My Lord.
22
23 MS. HUTCHISON: Good afternoon, My Lord.
24
25 Submissions by Ms. Molstad
26
27 MR. MOLSTAD: I will be brief, My Lord; and one of the reasons
28 why Ican be brief is that, on behalf of the Sawridge First Nation, we concur and adopt
29 the written submissions made by counsel on behalf of the Sawridge trustees except for
30 one matter which I will address in my submissions.
31
32 The position of the Sawridge First Nation is fairly clear and simple. We submit that the
33 questioning proposed by the Public Trustee in relation to Sawridge membership will not
34 assist in determining any issue that is raised in the main motion and certainly will not
35 significantly help determine any issues.
36
37 We submit further that even if the Public Trustee, which we submit we haven’t seen, were
38 to frame this motion by setting out specific questions that all of the general areas that the
39 Public Trustee has described whether you propose to go, in our submission, on a fishing
40 trip are irrelevant and would provide no assistance to the Court.
41