From an Aboriginal I know and respect.   He forwarded me the e-mail repeated below from the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty:   

From: dmcguinty@premier.gov.on.ca    Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:17:37 -0400

Conversation: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario    Subject: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario

Thank you for writing to me regarding the incarceration of Robert Lovelace of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.

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This week is Mining Week in British Columbia.  Some of the events include:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers (one word!) releases their 2007 Annual Report on the BC mining Industry:  $988 per table of eight non-members at the Marriott.
• Also at the Marriott, the Mining Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants Association of BC meet on Tuesday.  If you need to ask more, you can’t go.
• On Wednesday on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery is the only event that appears to be free:  pavilions showcasing the roles of minerals and mining in our lives. I wonder if the folk threatening to demonstrate the 2010 Olympics will be demonstrating on Wednesday–could make for a fun day.
• Women in Mining are holding a wine and cheese (not a more sober cheese and wine) do at the Hyatt Regency on Wednesday.
• Then for $52.50 each on Thursday you can attend the BC Mining Person of the Year and Sustainability Award at the Pan Pacific Hotel. 

All in all a busy and expensive week awaits us. I shall probably go only to the lawn event.  I do not like hotels at the best of times, so why go to more of those glass & brass & pass the buck places when I do not have to?