Petition updateHelp Stop Systemic Violence Against Indigenous womenStatement on Institutional Connections and Scope
Diane BousquetWinnipeg, Canada
Feb 6, 2026

Recent observations have raised questions about possible connections between separate development-related matters. I wish to clarify that there are no land-based, cultural, ceremonial, or community connections between my work to protect Lemay Forest and other development disputes.

The only discernible connections are institutional in nature, including:

• Overlapping legal counsel involved in different development-related files

• Shared professional regulatory and licensing environments

• Common municipal planning and approval processes

These are system-level intersections, not relational ones.

This distinction is important. My advocacy has never been about individual developers, isolated projects, or personal conflicts. It is about how land-related decisions involving culturally significant sites move through professional, legal, and municipal systems, and where those systems repeatedly fail to uphold Indigenous rights, memory, ethics, and accountability.

My actions have always been conscience-driven, land-rooted, and undertaken without expectation of financial gain or personal benefit. I came forward because harm was occurring and silence was not an option.

This petition continues to call for strengthened oversight, transparent professional accountability, and culturally informed decision-making processes — not litigation-driven outcomes.

 

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