Page 1 of 6 Tkake:thos Okwali Tetwa’s^tha’ May 4 th , 2018 Planning Division & City Council City of Niagara Falls 4310 Queen Street, PO Box 1023 Niagara Falls, Ontario, L2E 6X5 Dear City Officials, I wish to express my opposition to the Riverfront Community Official Plan Amendment as currently proposed as an act of bad faith that ignores Canada’s obligation to act as good faith Treaty partners. I am mindful while making these comments that it is challenging to find a route to fulfill the Crown’s Duty to Consult through the means available to the City. While my opposition includes these grounds my opposition also extends to concerns about the OPA outside of these concerns. I will outline why I think that this OPA must be opposed at this time in this letter. The Duty to Consult has not been fulfilled: My perspective is guided by the letter of Infringement from August of 2016 issued by the Haudenosaunee Development Institute and the letter issuing a warning from the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force to Justin Trudeau on March 8 th of 2017, both of which are attached. These letters have been delivered to the planning department in and around the dates specified. The letters were drafted in reference to the Thundering Waters Secondary Plan amendment but the core elements of the current OPA still do not address the concerns in the letters. Because the concerns in the letters have not been addressed the opposition to the project stated in each letter is applicable to the OPA in its current form. All of the descendants of Katsistyawaks of the Ow^tsa'tha family of the On^yote:aka are united in their opposition to this OPA. The Men’s Fire of Six Nations expressed opposition. Several local Indigenous Niagara families maintain their opposition. I have been in contact with the Mississaugas of the New Credit and Six Nations of the Grand River who have not been properly contacted for input. COMPLETE LETTER: https://www.facebook.com/OneDishOneMic/posts/1845468725476682 Please listen to the podcast and share with your neighbours - we have no right to destroy Indigenous natural heritage and that is exactly what this development proposes to do. If you can't get behind the environment and lack of economic value to this proposal for the city at large, perhaps we can at least acknowledge this is land covered by the Treaty of Niagara and not ours to develop. Yours in Truth and Reconciliation, the #STWF6 team