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"Revenue says no to GRE", p. 2

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GRE gets 'no' permit (Continued from front page) Norfolk MP Bob Speller says, "But I look at this as just losing round one. There will be a round two and three." Speller is continuing negotiations with Justice, Indian and Northern Affairs and Agriculture to work out a way to make Canadian tobacco available to GRE. GRE may not be willing to wait. Jerry Montour is fighting mad, "I just don't see how there can be a place called Canada for First Nation people. How can two nations live side-by-­side peacefully when one nation controls all the commodities?" Montour suggested there is more to this decision than meets the eye. He points out that Bloc Quebecois members have been aggressively pressuring the federal government to take strong action against natives in Quebec. "Two thirds of Quebec is unsettled Mohawk land. The Bloc is trying to demilitarize the Mohawk nation," he says. Reform leader Preston Manning agrees, "the Bloc knows that the Mohawks will oppose any sovereignty of Quebec. Some future government of Quebec is going to have to deal with that," he told the Canadian Press.

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