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‘It takes an extreme event to compel attention’: Swain
Former Indian Affairs DM Harry Swain writes about his role in Oka and how the government can resolve current flashpoints for aboriginal land rights across the country now and in the future.
On July 20, 1990, Harry Swain, then deputy minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, cut short his vacation in Germany. The Privy Council Office wanted him to come home. A police officer had been shot in the small community of Kanesatake west of Montreal, and Mohawk warriors were occupying...
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