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membership—until he stumbled on the
meeting he claims the community was
unaware of.
The council "didn't follow due pro-
cess to that point. Even after that point, it
became an issue," Genaille says. "Under
due process, they do have to share infor-
mation with the band membership. You
go in and you get to look at the docu-
ments, or you get to request the docu-
ments, and they have to hand it over to
you. But they didn't do that."
The secrecy is partly due to a con--
dentiality provision in the
MBA negoti-
ated between the Peters Band and Kinder
Morgan Canada. The agreement, worth
roughly $15 million over 20 years, wasn't
made public, but Discourse Media has
obtained a draft copy. It prohibits Kinder
Morgan Canada or the Peters Band from
sharing the -nancial details, "except as
reasonably necessary for the Community
Rati-cation Process."
The Peters First Nation did have a
rati-cation process: a community vote
"Kinder Morgan was successful in dividing our
communities on a community-by-community
basis and getting them to approve [the project],
and has also been successful in having our
communities keep secrets from each other"
— Carl Archie, Canim Lake Indian Band
