Pasqua Chief Unhappy With Creator Defence

Friday, February 22, 2008 at 15:12

 

 

Recent comments by a member of the Pasqua First Nation aren’t going over well with the band’s chief.

 

Chief Elaine Chicoose says Lawrence Agecoutay was not speaking for the band when he told reporters the “Creator” told him to grow marijuana on the reserve.

 

In a news release issued Thursday, the chief says, “. . . elders on the reserve are embarrassed by the comments and their rationale”.

 

She says the testimony is also an attack on all First Nations people, culture, laws and traditions.

 

Agecoutay was recently convicted for creating one of the large marijuana grow-ops in the province’s history.