Moving Ont. Mohawk border post could create 'no man's land'

By Mark Iype, Canwest News ServiceJuly 7, 2009 8:01 PM Photograph by: David Gonczol, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — A proposal to relocate a currently closed border post from Mohawk territory into nearby Cornwall, Ont., could create a "no man's land" and create other difficulties, critics warned Tuesday. "It's an admission by the Canadian government that there are pieces of territory where it cannot claim sovereignty," said Claude Denis, a political scientist who studies aboriginal rights and border issues at the University of Ottawa. "It feeds the sovereignty debate. It feeds the ambitions on one side, and tension on the other," he said. "That could lead to trouble." Moving the border crossing from a Mohawk island in the St. Lawrence River onto the mainland would mean travelling several kilometres into Canada before passing through... [read full story]                    

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