Ontario Community Newspapers

"Men's Fire seek injunction on McClung development", p. 1

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Men's Fire seek injunction on McClung development By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS - Tired of waiting for the Elected Council of the Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI) to do anything more than send letters expressing their concerns over a huge housing development planned for Caledonia, the Men's Fire organization of Six Nations filed a motion of their own with the Ontario Superior Court on Wednesday, December 16th. The move is an attempt to counter an injunction already filed by Empire Homes that would prevent anyone from Six Nations or elsewhere else from obstructing the development of some 3,500 new homes to be build on the old Plank Road, at McClung Road, just north of Caledonia. "We found out that Henco and Empire Homes are the same," according to Wilf Davie, of the Men's Fire, "It's all the same players." If this is true, it is concern that Henco/Empire Homes may by planning to use the template made at Douglas Creek and wait for the protests to begin to get bought out by Ontario, as had happened in that case. "Sure," he said. "It's money for nothing." Haldimand Mayor Ken Hewitt was contacted for comment on this story but as of press-time had not returned our call. Members of the Men's Fire themselves put up the cost of the motion, in part, to remain independent of either Band Council or the HDI. "When we went to court (on September 22nd), that was when the injunction was supposed to get squashed or get renewed, all of a sudden Aaron (Detlor, HDI's lawyer) shows up because he was representing me," says Men's Fire member Bill Monture. "We were under the impression that no one from Six Nations was going there to stop the injunction of even to address it." "The hearing was to commence on 16th of November and that very afternoon, he sent an e-mail to Empire Homes stating that Aaron Detlor was not getting involved with either the injunction nor was the HDI getting involved with the McClung properties. I was taken aback by that." So was the judge apparently. "The judge got [angry] because he had booked two or three days and rescheduled everybody," says Monture. "We are not named in the injunction but we want to be a party, and do what we have to put a motion forward." The Men's Fire put that motion (Continued on page 4)

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