Leo Friday
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About Leo Friday
Walter Leo Friday is the Grand Chief of Mushkegowuk Council, which is a tribal council representing seven First Nations located in northeastern Ontario up to the James Bay coast. Friday has been involved in First Nation government, on both a local community level and as a regional leader, for more than four decades. Friday served as Mushkegowuk Deputy-Grand Chief for three terms (2006-07, 2007-11 and 2011-15) and was elected for this current term as Grand Chief of Mushkegowuk Council in August 2023.
Ontario holds the key to protecting James Bay's Indigenous waters
Despite good-faith efforts to engage the province of Ontario, they have yet to come to the table, saying our proposed National Marine Conservation Area is ‘federal jurisdiction.’