Grand Chief Erasmus calls for McKnight's removal

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George Erasmus, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, sent Prime Minister Mulroney a letter calling for Indian Affairs Minister McKnight's removal for showing a conflict of interest in his decision to provide a grant to a Japanese-owned paper company.

"He offers half a million dollars for lost treaty benefits to the Crees of Lubicon Lake, who never signed a treaty, then he hands a foreign company 19 times that much 9.5 million plus timber resources of the Lubicons and at least seven other bands, all of whom have been denied reserves. It is an outrage," said Erasmus.