File 2010-020/141(3) - Odyssey ch. 8 : Justice Berger inquiry on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

1 folder of textual records

File includes Simpson's paper and the statement of the Federation of Natives North of 60 presented to the Berger Inquiry; public relations material on the pipeline project from the consortium wanting to build it; and the two volume report produced by the inquiry. Simpson's note: "this distinctive/unique inquiry and its incredible report is worthy of a thesis. Don was involved in it in various ways: helping Dene prepare their maps of traditional lands; preparing Dene chiefs for their testimony (along with Mel Watkins, Peter Russell and others); preparing personal input into the inquiry and testifying in front of the commission with a focus on some major social/environmental problems caused by fast, major development in developing countries by outsiders who were not well enough informed of local realities; as co-leader (with Peter Russell, Canada's foremost constitutional authority) of Southern Support Group for Dene; facilitator of a 60-group consortium against the pipeline; and finally, as a promotor of Berger's reports as amazing resources for educating people about development."