Indigenous groups send eviction notice to Quebec forestry companies

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Indigenous groups send eviction notice to Quebec forestry companies

MONTREAL - Two Indigenous organizations have issued eviction notices to a number of Quebec forestry companies in the province's Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie and Côte-Nord regions.

First Nations members sent an "expulsion and cessation order" to industry to oppose the reform of the forest regime put forward by the Legault government.

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In the wake of the Legault government's deposit of forest reform, Aboriginal groups sent notices of eviction to several logging companies in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie and Côte-Nord regions. Two atikamekw organizations reportedly sent the same notice of expulsion to 11 logging companies. "We hereby inform you that all your employees and contractors must immediately evacuate our unceded Aboriginal traditional territories, on the order …