Attachment #30: December 11, 1991, letter from Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) to Pizza Pizza Dear Mr. Austin: We are disappointed that you have refused to meet with us concerning the ongoing boycott of Daishowa Canada Ltd. paper products and your company's inclusion in that boycott. It was our belief that face-to-face discussion of the issues might give us the opportunity to resolve our dispute with Pizza Pizza. Even more distressing to us is your insistence over the phone that the issue is pretty much resolved and that as a result Pizza Pizza no longer has an obligation to take any ethical position on this matter. It is distressing because it's simply not true. The federal government has made some overtures to the Lubicon Lake Nation over the past week and meetings have been agreed to for early February. However much we would like to, though, we find it difficult to put much faith in these meetings as some kind of salvation for the Lubicon people. Need we remind you that countless meetings have been held between all parties over a span of fifty years and to this date there is still no resolution of the Lubicon people's land rights. Regardless, we are baffled by your insistence that the announcement of these meetings absolves Daishowa of any responsibility for making a clear, public and unequivocal commitment not to cut or to buy wood cut on unceded Lubicon territories until a land rights settlement is reached with both levels of government and a harvesting agreement negotiated with the Lubicon Lake Nation. If Daishowa is truly acting ethically and responsibly, what prevents them from making such a commitment? If, for the sake of argument, the meetings in February by some miracle resulted in a land rights agreement that was satisfactory to the Lubicon people, then Daishowa, even on the terms of such a commitment, would be free to negotiate a harvesting agreement with the Lubicon people and the matter would be resolved. However, without such a commitment, the threat of vast clearcutting on their unceded traditional territory will still hang over the heads of the Lubicon people should their land rights remain unresolved after February's meetings, and that is and always will be unacceptable. We remain bewildered as to why Pizza Pizza would want to keep company with a conglomerate that is unwilling to make such a commitment. It seems to us that if Daishowa truly had faith in the upcoming meetings, they would make the kind of clear, public and unequivocal commitment we are asking, and in doing so end the boycott action against them and you. We are also concerned that you have consistently misrepresented the issue as one of a 'breach of agreement' between Daishowa and the Lubicons, saying that you would cancel your contracts if that breach was proven. It is our position that regardless of what has happened in the past, Daishowa has the ethical obligation of making a commitment NOW. We are not concerned with dry legalistic matters of 'breach of agreement' or the legalities of leases. The planned clearcutting of unceded Aboriginal land and the subsequent genocide of an entire Aboriginal culture is a crime against humanity and the environment we live in. It is completely beyond me why Pizza Pizza would want to associate itself with such a crime. You have claimed that Daishowa has the right to due process, and that we must prove that they've done wrong. On December 2 we submitted to you documented proof that Daishowa had clearcut last year on unceded Lubicon territories. You responded by saying we still hadn't proven the 'breach of agreement' and that the Province of Alberta had given them permission to cut on Lubicon territories. It may be the case that the law and the Province would choose to allow such a crime to be committed, but there is no reason why the people of Canada should allow it to be done. It is a matter of public record that Daishowa plans to commit this crime again. Pizza Pizza is amongst those companies that, as Daishowa clients, are in a position to force Daishowa to cancel these plans by cancelling paper contracts with them. The issue requires that you make an ethical decision on the issue of clearcutting unceded Aboriginal lands, and in the end we believe it requires that Pizza Pizza break ties with the kind of company that carries out such crimes. In the absence of any decision on your part we will be continuing the boycott of Pizza Pizza stores. Sincerely, Ed Bianchi, Friends of the Lubicon * * * * * Attachment #31: EDMONTON EXAMINER, December 14-15, 1991 WORLDWIDE PRESSURE BUILDS ON DAISHOWA by Dale Stelter Daishowa Canada, one of the major companies in Alberta's drive for forestry development, is in the public spotlight again. The Lubicon Lake Indian Nation of northern Alberta has launched a boycott of Daishowa products, and the company has admitted that it is feeling the financial effects of the boycott. The Lubicon launched the boycott because Daishowa Canada is not adhering to a March, 1988, agreement between the company and the Lubicon. Under that agreement, Daishowa is not to log on land claimed by the Lubicon until a settlement of the band's decades-long land rights dispute is obtained, and an agreement is reached concerning Lubicon environmental and wildlife concerns. The boycott is a clear demonstration of what can happen when government and industry persist in following misguided and destructive policies toward the environment, and in blatantly disregarding the concerns of Aboriginal people. By way of background, the Lubicon maintain that since they have never signed a treaty with the federal government, they have never ceded Aboriginal title to their traditional lands. After their traditional way of life was shattered by rampant oil and gas exploitation, the Lubicon were never consulted when the Alberta government allocated their entire traditional territory to Daishowa, excepting a proposed reserve. That reserve is completely surrounded by Daishowa's Forest Management Agreement. So far, Daishowa Canada has stated that neither it, nor its contractors, nor Brewster Construction Ltd. - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daishowa Canada - will log on disputed land this winter. Last winter, Brewster Construction and a contractor with Daishowa undertook clearcutting operations on land claimed by the Lubicon. Tom Hamaoka, vice-president of Daishowa Canada, a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company, has stated that he feels the boycott is "totally unwarranted." He also feels the boycott is based on inaccurate information, and on incorrect accusations by Friends of the Lubicon, the Toronto-based group involved in many of the boycott activities. Companies participating in the boycott obviously feel otherwise. For example, a representative of Cultures Fresh Food Restaurants wrote to Friends of the Lubicon that "after careful research into the current situation in Alberta, Cultures Fresh Food Restaurants has decided to stop using Daishowa products." A buyer/merchandiser with Knechtel Wholesale Grocers wrote that "I have had time to read both sides of the problem and I have to side with The Friends of the Lubicon". Meanwhile, the Lubicon continue to receive international support in their land rights dispute. A Germany-based group called Big Mountain Aktionsgruppe e.V. is coordinating Lubicon support in Europe, involving organizations and individuals in countries such as France, England, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Part of the European support effort involves a Stop Daishowa Campaign. Work on behalf of the Lubicon is also going on in Japan -- the home of Daishowa Canada's parent company -- and the United States and Australia. For example, in October, an Australian organization named The Wilderness Society called upon the Australian government "to exert international pressure on the environmental and social policies of Daishowa Seishi, whose forestry operations have prompted a worldwide plea for help from the Lubicon Indian Nation of Canada." * * * * * Attachment #32: December 12, 1991, News Release by Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) THE ISSUE IS CLEAR CUT BOYCOTT DAISHOWA BOYCOTT PIZZA PIZZA The national boycott of Daishowa paper products announced on November 28 will continue on Saturday, December 14 with simultaneous leafleting demonstrations at nine Pizza Pizza locations in Toronto, as well as Pizza Pizza outlets in Hamilton, London, Guelph, Kingston, and Kitchener, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Although Daishowa has admitted to being hurt by the boycott, they are still refusing to make a clear, public and unequivocal commitment not to cut or to buy wood cut on unceded Lubicon territories until a land rights settlement is reached with both levels of government. They say that meetings between the Lubicon people, the Federal government and the Provincial government scheduled for early February make the whole issue a moot point. We say the issue is clear cut. Daishowa has to make the ethical decision not to cut on unceded aboriginal territory, period. Why are they afraid to put that on paper? IF THE SHOE FITS Daishowa Vice President Tom Hamaoka has been inferring that the Friends of the Lubicon have been making incorrect accusations and unfairly 'portraying Daishowa as villains in a situation which they are powerless to resolve'. Unfortunately for Hamaoka, the facts speak for themselves. The problem isn't that Daishowa isn't capable of making the kind of commitment we are asking for: it's that they are unwilling to. PUT IT ON PAPER, PLEASE Last year, Daishowa broke a 1988 agreement between the Lubicon and Daishowa that there would be no cutting on unceded Lubicon territory until there was a settlement of Lubicon land rights. Daishowa sub-contractor Buchanan Lumber Ltd. began clear-cutting on Lubicon land last November. Since the agreement was a verbal one, Daishowa has tried to fool people into believing there was no agreement. The March 7, 1988, agreement between the Lubicons and Daishowa provided that Daishowa would stay out of the unceded Lubicon territory until there was a settlement of Lubicon land rights. Since then Daishowa officials, including Canadian Vice President Mr. Tom Hamaoka, have claimed that: *their subsidiary and subcontractors weren't covered by the agreement *that terms of the agreement were satisfied by the totally unrelated Grimshaw Agreement *that the agreement only provided there'd be no logging in "new areas" *that the agreement only covered the proposed reserve area *that there wasn't and never had been any agreement. PIZZA PIZZA POSITION CLEAR CUT Pizza Pizza has said that it backs Daishowa in its negotiations with the Lubicon. The Friends of the Lubicon yesterday released an open letter to Pizza Pizza outlining our position (copies are available from us). We have yet to receive any response. Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) in conjunction with other Lubicon supporters will continue the boycott campaign against Daishowa, and users of Daishowa products, until there is a clear, public and unequivocal commitment from Daishowa, in writing, that says they will respect Lubicon land rights by not harvesting trees and not buying trees cut on Lubicon land until Lubicon land rights have been negotiated. For more information call the Friends of the Lubicon at 416-783-4694. Numbers for spokespeople in each of the participating cities are available from us. * * * * * Attachment #33: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Monday, December 16, 1991 REVIVAL OF LUBICON TALKS RAISES A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR DEAL Paul Marck Journal Staff Writer Edmonton The resumption of land-claim talks between government and the Lubicon Lake Indian band casts a ray of light over a dark past. Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Tom Siddon announced late last month that there is "sufficient common ground for renewed substantive discussions between Canada, Alberta" and the Lubicons, after his first face-to-face meeting with Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak. Ominayak says it's not impossible for the three parties to talk. "There's certainly going to have to be the wills on the part of the government to facilitate an agreement. If it takes three, we'd certainly look at such a meeting." The negotiations are scheduled to reopen in February. Money has been the major sticking point in the dispute. The band has accepted an offer of 246 square km for a reserve at Lubicon Lake, 350 km northwest of Edmonton. But talks broke off in January, 1989, when Ominayak rejected the federal government's "take-it-or-leave-it" proposal of $45 million in compensation. The band wants $170 million from Ottawa. The federal government now says all of the band's concerns are on the table. Bob Coulter, a special-projects executive with Indian and Northern Affairs in Ottawa, said the February meeting means more than rehashing the government's three-year-old offer as it stands. "We're prepared to discuss all of the band's demands. I don't know whether you want to characterize this as something new." The 500-member Lubicon Lake band has tried settling a land claim with the federal government for more than 50 years. The Lubicons maintain -- and the government acknowledges -- the band was left out of turn-of-the-century negotiations that extinguished native land claims in northern Alberta, and therefore no settlement was ever achieved. Since Siddon's invitation to reopen talks, three major developments have occurred: *Premier Don Getty made a vague pronouncement at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that he had insights and suggestions to "close the gap" for a Lubicon settlement. Neither leader would elaborate. *Daishowa Canada, with a $550-million logging and pulp mill operation at Peace River admitted it talked to Indian Affairs late last month about jump-starting negotiations. Daishowa has an agreement with the provincial government to log in the area, including disputed lands claimed by the Lubicon. *The nearby community of Loon Lake, just east of the disputed Lubicon lands, announced it has successfully petitioned Ottawa for band status with up to 350 people. As many as 80 had been counted as Lubicon members. Ominayak says if there's nothing new on the table, there's nothing to discuss with Siddon. "From our side of the table what we'd like to have is something that would enable our people to start building for a half-decent future," Ominayak says. "From his side of the table it seems to be a take-it-or-leave it proposal that's going to leave our people on welfare for the rest of our lives. I think those are the major differences." Lubicon adviser Fred Lennarson is wary of the government's motives. He suspects Indian Affairs is conducting a propaganda campaign, trying to show sincerity while "hammering the Lubicons" into accepting its previous offer. As evidence he suggests the creation of two neighboring bands is serving to disillusion the Lubicons. To the west, the Woodland Cree was created last year with about 650 members, and a $58-million cash and 367-square-km land settlement. To the east, the Loon Lake band will be created early in the new year. Between them it dilutes the Lubicon membership of 500. From as few as a handful to as many as 80 on Lubicon rolls are expected to join Loon Lake, and Woodland takes in up to about 80 former band members. Coulter of Indian Affairs says the Lubicon claim is a valid one, but so are the others. Historic ties to individual communities -- Cadotte Lake for the Woodland Cree, Little Buffalo for the Lubicon and Loon Lake for the proposed Loon Lake band -- will determine what band people will associate with, Coulter says. Meanwhile, Daishowa has a major stake in negotiations. Its Peace River pulp mill, two sawmills and forestry-management agreement with the province is a major investment that can't be fully utilized without a settlement, because part of its agreement takes in disputed Lubicon lands. * * * * * Attachment #34: December 17, 1991, letter from Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) to The Hon. Marilyn Churley, Minister responsible for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Dear Ms. Churley: Please examine the enclosures in your consideration to stop using Daishowa paper products at the LCBO. Friends of the Lubicon announced a nationwide Daishowa boycott in Ottawa at the Assembly of First Nations press conference on November 28th. 4 out of the 5 businesses approached thus far have terminated Daishowa as their paper supplier. In addition to the Assembly of First Nations, this boycott already has the backing of the 50,000 strong National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), the Action Canada Network, the Native Women's Association of Canada and Environment Probe. Responses from numerous organizations are pending. We request a meeting before your decision and hope to hear from you soon. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Stephen Kenda, Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) * * * * * Attachment #35: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Tuesday, December 17, 1991 BOYCOTT AGAINST DAISHOWA SHIFTS TO ALBERTA TODAY LUBICON BACKERS HAPPY WITH RESULTS IN ONTARIO Paul Marck Journal Staff Writer Edmonton The national boycott of Daishowa paper products -- in support of the Lubicon Indian Band's land settlement claim -- kicks off in Alberta today. A nationwide boycott of the Japanese multinational's forestry products was announced by the support group Friends of the Lubicon late last month in Toronto. Lubicon supporters hope a news conference today in Edmonton outside the Daishowa offices will achieve the same results at those seen in Ontario, Barry Johnstone, chairman of the Alberta Environmental Alliance, said Monday. "This provides an opportunity for ordinary people who might be concerned about some of the issues concerning forestry or concerning native rights to voice their concerns through the market," he said. An Ontario restaurant chain and a string of grocery markets have agreed to stop using Daishowa paper products. The company has admitted the boycott is hurting its eastern market. The Alberta Environmental Alliance, part of a coalition of Lubicon supporters, hopes to achieve similar results here, Johnstone said. Daishowa, with a pulp mill and two saw mills at Peace River, has disputed Lubicon lands in logging territory awarded the company in its forestry management agreement with the province. Daishowa has agreed to stay out of the disputed area this winter. Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak will attend the news conference along with supporters at 10 a.m. today outside the Daishowa offices at the Royal Trust Tower, on 101st Street between Jasper Avenue and 102nd Avenue. The 500-member Lubicon band and the federal government have fought over a land settlement for 50 years. Negotiations are set to reopen in February. * * * * * Attachment #36: December 17, 1991, Media Release by coalition group in Calgary, Alberta, organizing boycott Daishowa efforts in that area BOYCOTT OF DAISHOWA!!!! Recognizing the impending threat to the very existence of the Lubicon society and the fragile northern eco-system, a coalition of Calgary groups, consisting of the Calgary Labour Council, the Calgary Rainforest Action Group, the Committee Against Racism, Northern Light and the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School are today joining other groups from across Canada in their call for a boycott of Daishowa and their products. This boycott will be effective until Daishowa makes a clear, firm and public commitment to not cut and not to purchase any wood cut on unceded Lubicon territory until AFTER A SETTLEMENT of Lubicon land rights and negotiation of a harvesting agreement with the Lubicon people that takes into account Lubicon wildlife and environmental concerns. The coalition is also calling on Daishowa to immediately cease all of its clearcutting and purchasing of trees from the Wood Buffalo National Park, a World Heritage Site of the stature of the Pyramids of Gizeh and the Grand Canyon, and to implement sustainable forestry practices in all of its FMA areas. This call for a boycott of Daishowa is also being made today in Edmonton, where a coalition of groups, including the Action Canada Network and the Missionary Oblates, is joining in to stop the genocide of the Lubicon society. A call for a boycott of Daishowa and its products by the Friends of the Lubicon in Toronto has so far resulted in several companies agreeing to stop using Daishowa products, e.g. Cultures Fresh Food restaurants, Knechtels Wholesale Grocers, Ho-Lee-Chow restaurants and The Body Shop. Additionally the YWCA in Toronto, which is currently asking for tenders for their paper products, has stated that it will not accept any bids from suppliers using Daishowa products. Background: Daishowa and its Threat to the Survival of the Lubicon Cree Nation In a meeting between Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak and Daishowa Senior Vice President and General Manager Koichi Kitigawa on March 8, 1988, an agreement was reached that Daishowa would stay out of unceded Lubicon territory until a settlement of Lubicon land rights had been achieved and a logging agreement regarding Lubicon wildlife management and environmental concerns worked out with the Lubicon people. The March 7, 1988, agreement between Daishowa and the Lubicon people was negotiated in the context of nation-wide protests over a February 8, 1988, announcement that the Alberta Provincial Government had sold Daishowa the trees from an immense, 29,000 sq. mile area which completely blankets the unceded Lubicon territory. The trees from this huge area are intended to feed a massive, environmentally questionable bleached kraft pulp mill which Daishowa was proposing to build just outside of the traditional Lubicon territory with millions of dollars in Federal and Provincial Government subsidy money. In retrospect it is likely that officials of Daishowa really believed at this point that Lubicon land rights would be settled before they planned to log unceded Lubicon territory starting in 1990, and that therefore all they had to do was quiet the raging storm by basically making whatever kind of agreement they had to with the Lubicons -- like in the old treaty-making days when treaty commissioners admitted that they were prepared to promise the Indians almost anything in order to avoid a confrontation before Canadian Government military forces were sufficiently strong to suppress any possible resistance. On September 14, 1989 -- some 18 months after negotiation of the March 7th agreement and without benefit of any further discussions between Daishowa and the Lubicon people -- a 20 year Forest Management Agreement was signed between Daishowa and the Alberta Provincial Government. The Peace River pulp mill was opened in September of 1990. Lubicon land rights of course were not settled by the fall of 1989 and by then didn't seem likely to be settled in the foreseeable future. Officials of Daishowa consequently grew increasingly restive and started making a number of moves clearly intended to circumvent the March 7, 1988, Lubicon agreement. Attempts by Daishowa to circumvent the March 7, 1988, agreement included - claiming that there never was an agreement with the Lubicons; - claiming that there was an agreement, but that it only exempted the proposed 1939 reserve area, and not the traditional unceded Lubicon territory; - claiming to honour the agreement while starting to clearcut unceded traditional Lubicon through a Daishowa-owned subsidiary and subcontractors; - claiming wrongly that the Lubicons had allowed Daishowa to log in traditional logging areas; After over a decade of government-sponsored and encouraged massive oil & gas exploration, and without the benefit of a settlement of their aboriginal land rights, the Lubicon society now faces the threat of large-scale clearcutting of its traditional hunting and trapping area. The damage done to the fragile ecology of Alberta's north by the effects of clearcutting and the pollution caused by the outdated and irresponsible kraft process of producing wood pulp is matched by the devastating effects this large-scale intrusion will have on the already battered Lubicon society. Should this new phase of un-checked 'development' go ahead, the destruction and extinction of the traditional Lubicon society is certain. For further information contact: Committee Against Racism (403) 282-6845 Northern Light (403) 244-1975 Calgary Labour Council (403) 262-2390 Calgary Rainforest Action Group (403) 244-5083 Friends of the Lubicon, Toronto (416) 972-6293, 947-0808, 783-4694 Action Canada Network (403) 483-3021 Missionary Oblates (403) 488-4767 * * * * * Attachment #37: Transcript of CKUA Radio News Broadcast (12:00 Noon) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Don Bell, CKUA ...to make the announcement of their plans at the Edmonton office of the Japanese paper company. But security guards and police prevented them from entering the office tower where it's located. They also prevented non- boycotters from entering the tower which caused some annoyance. Leaders of the boycott are trying to cause more than just annoyance for Daishowa however. Lucien Royer of the Action Canada Network says over 800 organizations will be asked to take part...Royer says the idea is to apply enough pressure on Daishowa so that it will in turn apply pressure on Ottawa to agree to a land claim settlement the Lubicons can live with. Lucien Royer, Action Canada Network The federal government is responsible to negotiate, but the federal government doesn't listen to Indians. The federal government doesn't listen to Albertans. The federal government doesn't listen to Canadians. And our intent is to put pressure on Daishowa because the federal government will listen to Daishowa. Bell But Lubicon advisor Fred Lennarson says the Daishowa boycott is not designed to just be a political lever. He says it's being done because Daishowa is threatening to clear-cut trees on land in northern Alberta being claimed by the Lubicons. Fred Lennarson, Lubicon Advisor Daishowa has not just been singled out as some kind of political lever. Daishowa is being stopped because Daishowa is proposing to go in and clear- cut Lubicon trees. Bell A meeting between Ottawa, Alberta and the Lubicons has been proposed for February, about the time the boycott is designed to be in full gear. Lennarson says he's hopeful something will encourage the Mulroney Government to do the right thing. He says it won't if it has any alternatives. Don Bell, CKUA News, Edmonton. * * * * * Attachment #38: Transcript of CKUA Radio News Broadcast (5:15 P.M.) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Don Bell, CKUA News In the headlines: Lubicon supporters are expanding their boycott of Daishowa. Supporters of the Lubicon Indian Band are expanding their boycott of Daishowa paper products. The boycott, which started in Ontario, is now being called a national effort. Lucien Royer of the Action Canada Network says over 800 organizations will be asked to take part...Lubicon advisor Fred Lennarson says the boycott is not simply for political reasons. He says Daishowa is being targeted because the company wants to cut down trees on land claimed by the Lubicons. Fred Lennarson, Lubicon Advisor Daishowa has not just been singled out as some kind of political lever. Daishowa is being stopped because Daishowa is proposing to go in and clear- cut Lubicon trees. Bell The Vice-President of Daishowa Canada says the boycott against his company could hurt the Province. Tom Hamaoka says the boycott isn't having much impact on Daishowa's operation at Peace River right now, but he says if the land claim dispute is not settled soon and the boycott drags on, Alberta's economy will suffer. Tom Hamaoka, Vice-President, Daishowa Canada This boycott could have long-term negative impacts from the perspective of trying to seek future investors in northern Alberta and in this respect the boycott will be counter-productive to us all -- the Lubicons, Daishowa, the community and the Province. * * * * * Attachment #39: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (4:30 P.M.) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Neil Smith, CBC A national lobby group is calling on Albertans to boycott Daishowa paper products. The Action Canada Network in Edmonton says that's the only way to get Ottawa to resume serious land claim talks with the Lubicon Indians. Lydia Newfeld reports. Lydia Newfeld, CBC Daishowa operates a pulp mill near Peace River. Some of the trees that find their way to that mill come from land the Lubicon Indians claim belongs to them. That's the point of this boycott. Lucien Royer with Action Canada Network in Edmonton is calling on people in Alberta to look for the Daishowa symbol and not support the businesses that use Daishowa paper products. Their products might be paper bags or boxes. Royer says the boycott will hit Daishowa where it counts -- in the pocket book -- which in turn may finally get Ottawa to resume serious land claim talks with the Lubicon Indian Band. Lucien Royer, Action Canada Network The Federal Government is responsible to negotiate, but the Federal Government doesn't listen to Indians. The Federal Government doesn't listen to Albertans. The Federal Government doesn't listen to Canadians. Our intent is to put pressure on Daishowa because the Federal Government will listen to Daishowa. Reporter Because money talks? Royer Money talks. Newfeld Royer says over the next few weeks his group will identify businesses in Alberta which use Daishowa products. They'll be asked to boycott the pulp and paper company. If they don't, Royer is threatening to picket these businesses. Officials with Daishowa in Edmonton couldn't be reached for comment. The doors to the company's office were locked to keep out Royer and his supporters. * * * * * Attachment #40: Transcript of CBC Radio News Broadcast (5:30 P.M.) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Neil Smith, CBC A group of demonstrators was locked out of the Edmonton building today that contains the offices of Daishowa Pulp and Paper Company. The demonstration was called by the Action Canada Network. It wants to put pressure on the federal government to resolve the Lubicon land claim. Lydia Newfeld has the story. Lydia Newfeld, CBC Members of Action Canada Network and other supporters of the Lubicon Lake Indian Band gathered in a downtown mall outside the office tower which houses Daishowa's offices in Edmonton. Security guards locked the office doors, leaving Lucien Royer of Action Canada Network and his supporters standing in the middle of the shopping mall. Royer called for a boycott of Daishowa paper products. Lucien Royer, Action Canada Network We will ask Canadians to look at the bottom of paper bags and find the Daishowa logo and to approach merchants across the country to encourage them to join the boycott. If we find that merchants refuse to join the boycott, we will be organizing rotating pickets to inform Canadians that the merchants are not joining the boycott. * * * * * Attachment #41: Transcript of CBC TV News Broadcast (6:00 P.M.) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Bob Chelmick, CBC News A giant pulp and paper company in northern Alberta has become the focus of a national boycott. Today in Calgary and Edmonton, supporters of the Lubicon Indian Band announced plans to target businesses which use paper products produced by Daishowa. Daishowa is the Japanese company which operates the new pulp mill near Peace River, a company that has timber rights to thousands of square kilometres of Alberta forest land, land the Lubicon claim is theirs. Rick Boguski has our story. Rick Boguski, CBC News Lubicon supporters gathered outside Daishowa's Edmonton office urging Canadians to join them in a national boycott. Lucien Royer, Action Canada Network We will ask Canadians to look at the bottom of paper bags and find the Daishowa logo and to approach merchants across the country to encourage them to join the boycott. Boguski Daishowa is a giant international pulp and paper company. It operates a plant near Peace River and lays claim to 40,000 square kilometres of trees in northern Alberta, timber land right in the heart of the Lubicons' traditional hunting territory, land the Lubicons say is theirs. Royer The federal government is responsible to negotiate, but the federal government doesn't listen to Indians. The federal government doesn't listen to Albertans. The federal government doesn't listen to Canadians. Our intent is to put pressure on Daishowa because the federal government will listen to Daishowa. Reporter Because money talks? Royer Money talks. Boguski The Lubicon have been trying to negotiate a land claim settlement with the federal government since 1939, a dispute that's dragged on for more than 50 years. But the Vice President of Daishowa says that's not his problem. Tom Hamaoka, Vice-President, Daishowa Canada We're being portrayed as villains in this dispute which we're powerless to resolve. Boguski Hamaoka says the national boycott of Daishowa products won't hurt his company because 95% of his products are sold in Japan. But he warns this action could backfire. Hamaoka This boycott could potentially be counter-productive from the point of view of investors wanting to invest in northern Alberta and by virtue of this we could all lose, we could all be hurt, not only Daishowa but the Lubicons, the Province and the communities of northern Alberta. Boguski Daishowa says it's trying not to inflame the situation by staying out of the disputed land and logging elsewhere, at least for this logging season. But that's little consolation to these Lubicon supporters who see Daishowa as the villain and plan to make the company pay. The Lubicon supporters say they'll be spending the next few weeks finding out which companies are using Daishowa products and then urging them to stop. If they don't, the Lubicon supporters warn those business might become the target of demonstrations like the one today. Rick Boguski, CBC News, Edmonton. * * * * * Attachment #42: Transcript of ITV News Broadcast (10:00 P.M.) Tuesday, December 17, 1991 Ross McLaughlin, ITV News There's no let-up in the efforts to block construction of the Daishowa pulp mill. Supporters of the Lubicon Band staged demonstrations in Calgary and Edmonton today and security and police were on hand to make sure things did not get out of control. Kathy Tomlinson reports. Kathy Tomlinson, ITV News For a while, it appeared the protest had the desired effect. Security blocked the entrance to Daishowa's head office while Lubicon supporters made their position clear. Barry Johnstone, Alberta Environmental Alliance Their situation is desperate. It's tragic. And we think it's outrageous. Fred Lennarson, Lubicon Advisor The Lubicon people really believe, and a number of Lubicon people have said to me personally, "If they come in and take our trees on top of everything else, we might as well lie down and die; we are finished as a people." Tomlinson But Edmonton Centre is private property, so the protest was short-lived. And no one was allowed up to Daishowa offices. Security Staff They don't want you in there. You've been asked to leave the building. You'll be arrested if you don't leave. Protestor We have to leave right now? Can't we go up and talk to them? Tomlinson The protestors say Daishowa is one of the Lubicon enemies. They expect the company will log on traditional Lubicon land before the Band can negotiate its land settlement with Ottawa. But upstairs Daishowa tells a different story... Tom Hamaoka, Vice President, Daishowa Canada The Lubicons and the Friends of the Lubicons have created a well- orchestrated media campaign aimed at targeting Daishowa. Tomlinson Mr. Hamaoka says a boycott will only hurt the northern Alberta economy. It could shelve Daishowa's plans to build a paper plant next to the mill. Hamaoka We're being portrayed as villains in this dispute, which we're powerless to resolve. Tomlinson The company has no plans to log in Lubicon territory this winter. Meantime, another part of the Lubicon drama is unfolding in Peace River. A Band member faces a preliminary court hearing charged with arson. He's one of 13 members accused of torching logging equipment near the mill last winter. The Lubicon lawyer wants to subpoena Premier Don Getty and the Prime Minister as part of the defence. Kathy Tomlinson, ITV News. McLaughlin Land claim negotiations between the Band and the government are supposed to start up again this February. They've been stalled for almost 3 years. * * * * * Attachment #43: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Wednesday, December 18, 1991 LUBICON SUPPORTERS PUBLICIZE BOYCOTT DEMONSTRATORS DENIED ACCESS TO DAISHOWA OFFICES IN DOWNTOWN TOWER Paul Marck Journal Staff Writer Edmonton About 50 placard-waving Lubicon supporters noisily demonstrated Tuesday after they were barred access to the downtown offices of Daishowa Canada. Curious shoppers and onlookers gathered near the Royal Trust tower at Edmonton Centre as Barry Johnstone, chairman of the Alberta Environmental Alliance, announced the expansion of a boycott of Daishowa paper products to Alberta. The boycott supports the Lubicon band's land claim in northern Alberta. "Now by targeting Daishowa for a major boycott effort, we'll use the market force of consumer preference to allow ordinary people to have their say, to voice their concerns about the environment, to voice their concerns about Daishowa," Johnstone said. Daishowa, with a pulp mill and two sawmills at Peace River, has a forestry management agreement with the province to log a vast tract of public land east of Peace River that takes in disputed Lubicon territories. The company has agreed to stay off disputed lands this winter. Lubicon supporters want the giant Japanese company to stay out until the federal government reaches a land-claim settlement with the band. Daishowa ha failed to negotiate in good faith with the Lubicon, Johnstone claimed. The Action Canada Network, which lobbied against the free-trade agreement and the GST, backs the boycott. Spokesman Lucien Royer said Alberta Lubicon supporters want the public to examine retail paper bags for the stylized Daishowa logo on the bottom and ask retailers to stop using them. The group plans to monitor Daishowa products and later apply pressure on retailers by picketing them if they fail to stop using the products. "If we find that merchants refuse to join the boycott, we will be starting a slow series of rotating pickets to inform Canadians that the merchants are not joining the boycott," Royer said. The demonstration, attended by about 50 placard-waving supporters, got unruly when a security man barred access to the office tower and Daishowa's fifteenth-floor offices. Building operations manager Allen Baptist of Oxford Development called police after he asked demonstrators to move outside. A dozen officers responded, but the demonstration broke up after participants sang a few choruses of Daishowa Go Home to the popular hockey chant, Na-Na-Hey-Hey Goodbye. Others trying to get into the office tower were turned away for about 50 minutes. A courier demanded to be let in claiming he had mortgage papers that needed signing. Other businessmen complained loudly they had meetings to go to and planes to catch. Laurel Charbonneau, who manages the W.H. Smith bookstore adjacent to where the demonstration took place, said the goings-on hurt business. "Look around you. Do you see any shoppers in here? It's the week before Christmas," she said. * * * * * Attachment #44: December 18, 1991, ACTION ALERT from Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto) Dear Friends: Season's Greetings! Since embarking on the Daishowa boycott campaign in early November, we have been encouraged by many successes. Organizations which support the boycott include the Assembly of First Nations, the National Association of Japanese Canadians, the Native Women's Association and the Action Canada network. Businesses which have supported the boycott by cancelling their Daishowa paper contracts include Cultures Fresh Food Restaurants, Knechtel's Wholesale Grocers (of Kitchener), Ho-Lee-Chow and The Body Shop. Daishowa has said publicly that the boycott is hurting them economically. In fact, Daishowa was instrumental in pressuring Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon to organize a meeting for early February 1992 that will include Chief Ominayak and Dick Fowler, the Alberta minister responsible for Native Affairs. On Saturday, December 14, Chief Ominayak met with the mayor of Peace River and members of the business community. They asked Chief Ominayak to end the boycott because Daishowa is "an innocent third party". Rejecting the characterization of Daishowa as an innocent third party, Chief Ominayak said the boycott will continue until Daishowa makes a clear, public and unequivocal commitment, in writing, to stay out of Lubicon territory until a land rights settlement is negotiated, and until the wildlife and environmental concerns of the Lubicon are met. The Lubicon attribute this sudden increased interest in their land rights struggle to the boycott and are asking their supporters to continue to turn up the heat on Daishowa by continuing the boycott. One company which has refused to support the boycott is Pizza Pizza. In fact, Pizza Pizza has stated publicly that they support Daishowa in their negotiations with the Lubicon. Pizza Pizza has refused a meeting with Friends of the Lubicon to discuss the issue and has ignored an open letter which asked them to review their position on ethical and moral grounds. Two leafleting demonstrations have failed to persuade Pizza Pizza to do the right thing. As a result, Friends of the Lubicon is asking Lubicon supporters to phone 967-1111 on New Year's Eve (traditionally one of their busiest times) to express concern over Pizza Pizza's decision to support Daishowa. On the phone: 1) express your solidarity with the Lubicon Lake Nation 2) insist that Pizza Pizza stop buying Daishowa paper bags 3) let them know you won't order from Pizza Pizza until they do so 4) be polite but firm. The operator is probably overworked and underpaid! 5) phone back during the course of the evening. Get your friends to call too. It seems Pizza Pizza will not give in until it becomes an economic necessity. Please help spread the word about the Pizza Pizza boycott over the holiday season. The next meeting of Friends of the Lubicon is scheduled for 7:00 pm on January 7, 1992, at the Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Road, Toronto. Items to be discussed include Pizza Pizza, as well as Country Style Donuts and The Added Touch, two other companies which have yet to support the boycott. If you have any questions please call. Don't forget to phone Pizza Pizza on New Year's Eve, and tell all your friends to get their pizzas somewhere else! * * * * * Attachment #45: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Wednesday, December 18, 1991 Letter to the Editor from Daishowa Vice-President Tom Hamaoka DAISHOWA REBUTS LETTER'S CLAIMS Kevin Thomas, with Friends of the Lubicon in Toronto, claims (Daishowa has ethical obligation to Lubicons, Letters, Dec. 2) that Daishowa Canada made an agreement with the Lubicons on March 7, 1988, "not to cut on unceded Lubicon lands until a settlement of their land rights had been negotiated." Thomas also states that Daishowa has been inconsistent in its denials that such an agreement exists. On the contrary, Daishowa has clearly stated that an agreement respecting the "unceded Lubicon lands" was never made at the March 7, 1988, meeting or at any other time. Daishowa has acknowledged, however, that it gave assurances to refrain from logging in the reserve area negotiated between Premier Don Getty and Chief Bernard Ominayak in late 1988 (the Grimshaw accord), and this reserve area was eventually excluded from Daishowa's forest management agreement in 1989. Our assurances cannot, of course, apply to independent companies, some of which the Lubicons have falsely claimed are also Daishowa subsidiaries. Daishowa certainly recognizes that the Lubicons and their supporters would desire a more extensive agreement from Daishowa, but they should not falsely claim that one was made in 1988. In fact, Ominayak wrote to Daishowa on April 2, 1988, and said "we failed to communicate adequately during our meeting" on March 7. Notwithstanding the absence of a formal written or verbal agreement to restrict its activities, Daishowa has demonstrated its sensitivity to this issue by modifying its logging plans last winter and not logging in the area of concern to the Lubicons this winter. We hope that our actions will provide the Lubicons and the federal government with an opportunity to settle their dispute, and we urge both sides to resume their negotiations.