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1 Notices of the Founding of the Independent Kinakwii Nation A Gift from the People of the Great Spirit to the People of Canada July 1, 2010 (Canada Day) Provided by William Allan of the Baldwin Family in his Individual Capacity and As Grand Chief of the Great Circle of the Independent Kinakwii Nation Together with Jon of the Maskell Family in his Individual Capacity and As the Chief Protector of the Independent Kinakwii Nation I, william allan of the Baldwin Family, a flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul and the Grand Chief of the Great Circle of the Kinakwii Nation and I, jon of the Maskell Family, a flesh-and-blood-sentient-livingsoul and Chief Protector of the Independent Kinakwii Nation do hereby make oath and say the following as our truth including without limitation: Page Overview: About the Kinakwii Nation Notice of Invitation.. 4 Notice of Kinakwii Declaration of Nationhood.. 5 Notice of Standing Notice of Comprehension Notice of Intention Notice of Claim of Right Notice of Relationship: Private to Public Notice of Meanings of Words and Phrases.. 25 Notice of the Apology by Canada to Native People 35 Notice of the Kinakwii Constitution 49 Notice of Distribution.. 97 All of which notices shall be inclusive of each other without limitation. Kinakwii means People of the Great Spirit. We welcome anyone who embraces the principles and the way of life we represent. It is an inspired vision in which all people and all nature really matter. We recognize Canada is becoming increasingly complex in the life of its public domain and disconnected from the real living of its private domain. We believe Canada is in a crisis of becoming too commercial and having too many of its people who set aside their private selves and live too much in their public selves. It is divided between its talk and its walk what it says and what it does. We think this is not healthy. We note the history of Canada s treatment of native people has been tragic for native cultures. While we appreciate profoundly Canada s apology and intention for reconciliation given on June 11, 2008, we fear without real effort to understand and act differently reconciliation will become ongoing assimilation policy in a slightly different package. We seek to work with Canada as equals to give its apology and reconciliation real substance. Ethics in the private domain will overcome power in the public domain. These notices are being presented to QUEEN ELIZABETH II, The Governor General, The Prime Minister, Canada s MPs and Senators, the Provinces and Territories of Canada and many other leaders and most especially the people of Canada in a spirit of sharing the opportunity for healing and mutual benefit. 1 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

2 Overview July 1, 2010 Summary Overview: About the Kinakwii Nation The Kinakwii Nation was born of a desire to claim the sovereignty that the native aboriginal people who lived on Turtle Island enjoyed for 1000 s of years before colonial visitors came from Britain and Europe beginning in the 1500 s. We make this claim by exercising sovereignty, living in a sovereign manner, and by providing appropriate documentation to establish this claim in the modern world. On June 11, 2008, the Government and political leaders of CANADA apologized to Native people for the terrible treatment they and their ancestors received over many decades and generations under the authority of the Canadian Government and its Churches. In so doing, CANADA created three groups of people: those who needed to make the apology, those who were being apologized to, and all those who were not part of and knew nothing about the terrible treatment of Natives by CANADA. The Kinakwii Nation is a way to help the people of Canada avoid allowing that apology to become hollow a way to give the apology substance in the form of new values, attitudes and behaviours towards and with native people. Kinakwii means People of the Great Spirit. The Kinakwii Nation is founded on its Declaration of Nationhood, which is a document that lays out the desires and intentions of a Kinakwii way of life. The Declaration of Nationhood was circulated on September 23, 2008 to Queen Elizabeth II, Monarch of Canada, The Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Canadian Federal Party Leaders, all members of the House of Commons, all members of the Senate and the Premiers of the Provinces of Canada and many First Nations Groups. International Notice of the Declaration was published on the Kinakwii Website at the same time. ( The Kinakwii Declaration asked Kinakwii leaders to prepare a Constitution. On November 11, 2009, the Kinakwii people passed a resolution approving a provisional draft of the constitution. This resolution was in remembrance of and respect for the many 1000s of indigenous aboriginal elders, grandmothers, forefathers, and leaders who, over the last 500 years, have given their lives in living service and often also in death, in the hope and belief that their service and sacrifice was for freedom and sovereignty. The Constitution of the Kinakwii Nation was proclaimed at the Spring Equinox celebration, March 21, The Kinakwii Nation does not begin with any pre-arranged contracts or agreements with any other groups, Countries or Corporations. Its Constitution describes a people who expect to be sovereign, who expect to be worthy of their sovereignty and expect to be treated as Sovereign by all other people and their governments. It is founded on respect for the Great Spirit, oneself, Elders, parents, children, for the extended family, for the private domain and for Mother Earth. It provides for healing from the injuries, damage and guilt of the past for all those involved, without controversy. It provides for the governance of the Kinakwii Nation in a co-operative structure of a network of Circles. It recognizes that Kinakwii Nationals also represent citizens of other countries. It lays the foundations of peaceful association for the Kinakwii Nation with all aspects of international commerce without fear and without favour. The Kinakwii Nation does not consent to be governed by any other country, jurisdiction or corporate entity. We are sovereign under the authority of the Great Spirit. Indigenous aboriginal people have and have always had their sovereignty and their right of self governance. These rights cannot be given or taken away by other jurisdictions and their legal concepts these rights are fundamental. We are part of the tapestry of history. We respect other Nations and expect them to respect us; and we expect the relationship between Kinakwii and Canada to become one everyone is proud of. 2 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

3 Overview July 1, 2010 In overview summary, the ten notices included herein establish and declare for all people that: 1. The Kinakwii Nation was formally established as an independent Nation on 21 March, Kinakwii Nationals live in awe and wonder with the Great Spirit, the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and- Water, themselves, their ancestors, their elders, their families, their neighbours and all people. 3. The Kinakwii Nation operates under Divine Law, in honour of traditional indigenous aboriginal values and with awareness of the modern body of knowledge as is elaborated in its Declaration of Nationhood, its Constitution and in these Notices. 4. The Kinakwii Nation regards land as a gift from the Great Spirit to be managed in stewardship for posterity, not something that can be owned for profit or financial security. 5. Kinakwii Nationals and the Kinakwii Nation claim their inalienable and un-lienable rights under International Law and Common Law, and the protection of International Law and Common Law. 6. Kinakwii Nationals do not acquire their Kinakwii National Status by virtue of their birth. They are born elsewhere. They choose Kinakwii status in full knowledge and awareness. Kinakwii Nationals and the Kinakwii Nation exist only in the private domain. 7. CANADA, as a created legal fiction under the authority of the CROWN, exists only in the public domain. It is a multi-layered complex system of interconnecting and interlocking public limited liability legally-created fictional entities and corporations. This situation exists for, and in, all other countries that are legally created, including the UNITED STATES. 8. Kinakwii Nationals operate in their private capacity; and also, to the extent of their choosing day by day, they may be associated with Canadian citizenship in the public domain and they claim all the associated rights, privileges, obligations and duties of that citizenship. 9. The Courts of CANADA have no right or jurisdiction with respect to Kinakwii Nationals acting in peace and in honour as Kinakwii Nationals. 10. Kinakwii Justice Circles have no right or jurisdiction with respect to Kinakwii Nationals when they are acting as Canadians. 11. Kinakwii Nationals who also enjoy Canadian citizenship have a responsibility to clearly choose when they are acting as Kinakwii Nationals and when as Canadians. 12. The Kinakwii Nation does not seek to shield Kinakwii Nationals from the consequences of criminal activity in other jurisdictions. 13. The Great Spirit with the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water is the Creator of all natural things. 14. As the Creator of all natural things, the Great Spirit with the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water is the grantor of all benefits enjoyed by present and future life on Earth. 15. Kinakwii Nationals are the direct beneficiaries of the generosity of the Great Spirit as are all private individuals and all life and they accept the responsibility of wise use of all resources. 16. Whenever the CROWN, in the right of any legally created jurisdiction or entity, has interjected itself between The Great Spirit and any private individuals it has done so as a Trustee, and as a Trustee it is bound by Divine Law to deliver the generosity of the Great Spirit to the beneficiaries. 17. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor as QUEEN ELIZABETH II is the senior representative of the CROWN and CANADA and is therefore the Trustee and we hold her to the responsibility of fulfilling the inherent trust held by the CROWN. 18. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in her Coronation Oath is sworn to uphold Divine Law. 19. Any public officials who unduly question, harass, detain or encumber Kinakwii Nationals who are living in peace and honour are in violation of Divine Law and therefore cause QUEEN ELIZABETH II, who is their senior representative, to be in violation of her Coronation Oath. 20. The declared intention of the Kinakwii Nation is to help invigorate and clarify the relationship between the public domain and the private domain as represented respectively by CANADA and the Kinakwii Nation. This is the gift from the People of the Great Spirit. 3 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

4 of Invitation July 1, 2010 Notice of Invitation as of June 21, 2008 Kinakwii: People of the Great Spirit A Call to Evoke Our History Inspire Our Future The people of Canada, through the voices of their political leaders in their House of Parliament June 11, 2008 have apologized for their treatment of the indigenous aboriginal people who live on the lands within the borders of Canada and whose ancestors have done so since before those borders were created and before Canada existed. The event of this apology has created history. By the fact of this apology alone, Canada has officially acknowledged two groups among those people who live within its borders: those who are of the heritage, roots, values and beliefs of the peoples who have lived on and occupied the lands within the borders of Canada for many 1000 s of years and those who came from elsewhere beginning 500 years ago. Canada also officially acknowledged that the dominant group has been the group that arrived from elsewhere, and that this group owes the indigenous group an apology for the treatment perpetrated upon them. This apology is empty and pointless unless it signals the beginning of new behaviours and new relationships between the two groups to resolve the treatment that led to the need for an apology. Outside of governments and legal institutions many non-indigenous non-aboriginal Canadians have been friends of the indigenous aboriginal people. Many are now just as much their friends and relatives as are their indigenous aboriginal ancestors. The laws and legal and religious structures of CANADA have not been good for indigenous aboriginal people. They have sought to reduce us to, and treat us as, a subjugated colonized people. We have been reduced to poverty, unemployment, welfare, addiction and dependence on government promises whose benefits for the indigenous people have always been short, late, non-existent or often, much worse damaging to us individually and culturally or they have assimilated us into the dominant culture. Canada s apology opens the door to the resolution of these historic injustices. Unfortunately, there can be no meaningful response or progress until there is an indigenous aboriginal National entity that is NOT created under the laws and regulations of Canada. Anything less will only rearrange the colonialism that created the monstrosity for which Canada has just apologized. I, william allan of the Baldwin Family, am Algonquin. My ancestors lived in Eastern Ontario for 1000 s of years. I accept an inspiration from the Great Spirit and the Spirit of Mother Earth and Water that arises from deep within me to call upon all people who espouse the values, rights and privileges of indigenous aboriginal people to come together in Nation and a confederacy of tribes and nations that can exist separate from the legal creations of Canada and negotiate with Canada on an equal and independent basis to resolve the tragedies, inequities and injustices of the past. I hereby name this Nation, Kinakwii, which shall mean People of the Great Spirit and I offer this Declaration of Nationhood for all those who feel so inspired to join me. (Signed) william allan of the Baldwin Family, June, 21, witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

5 of Declaration of Nationhood July 1, 2010 Notice of Kinakwii Declaration of Nationhood We, the People of Kinakwii, a Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation, hereby declare: That we are Children of Light and we are conceived and created by the Divine Union of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water; That we are a Sovereign Nation with the potential to become a confederacy of Nations under the authority of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water who speak to us through the voices of nature and guide us in our relationships with each other, with all people and with all life; That we, together with our ancestors and the people who endorse this declaration, have occupied lands of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water for thousands of years, and that our occupation of these lands has been continuous since the beginning, without any agreement at any time with any other people to diminish our Nationhood; That our Nations have been granted, by the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water, entitlement to employ the abundance of nature in our lands of occupation sufficient to our needs; That we accept the requirement that we must at all times live in accordance with our values and exercise our responsibilities to safeguard the sanctity of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water, and that in so doing we earn the rights and privileges granted to us by the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of- Mother-Earth-and-Water, which values, responsibilities, rights and privileges are enumerated in the text cited herein; That we believe in this present moment of the early years of the 21 st Century we are being called upon by the Great Sprit and also the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water to demonstrate for all future generations what it means for us to proclaim our Nationhood and to live and act in accordance with the values, responsibilities, rights and privileges of our ancient heritage and culture, and at the same time have respect for the knowledge and challenges of the present day; That we shall be known and recognized as distinct and Sovereign on the lands that we occupy as a Nation and in the richness of the whole human family; And that having so declared on this day of 20, I as one among many hereby request that our leaders prepare, proclaim and maintain a Constitution that will give substance, enforcement and empowerment to this our Declaration of Nationhood. Name (printed & signed) Address & phone # 5 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

6 of Declaration of Nationhood July 1, 2010 Values of the Kinakwii People We the people of Kinakwii, a Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation, as part of our Declaration of Nationhood hereby proclaim our values as follows: The Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water are as one, and at the same time different and distinct with neither being over the other. We are Children of Light and we are conceived and created by the Divine union of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water. We believe each person has a relationship with the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water as the creator, ruler, preserver, protector and teacher for all life. We are not owners of the gifts of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water. We are good stewards for a time until we pass them on or give them back. We renounce the principle of individual ownership of land and natural resources and embrace the principle of stewardship on behalf of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water. Our children and our elders are gifts from the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water. We are all children; we can all become elders to be revered. We receive and care for the forests, lakes, rivers, rocks, hills and plains that are all together the home that the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water have given us. We accept the principle of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water to provide in abundance. Therefore we receive and value that which is in abundance. Resources that are scarce are to be treasured and preserved, not exploited. We value the love of nature, of self, of family and of community as the supreme ideal to embrace. We value the differences among us as it is our differences that give richness to our heritage and our culture. We respect the body of knowledge developed by all people throughout history and on into the future and reserve for all time our right to establish our own priorities and values with respect to the body of knowledge generated by all people. We treasure the wisdom, rituals, ceremonies, traditions, knowledge and experience of our ancestors as passed on by our elders, teachers and Shamans. We value their willingness to teach and share. We embrace the virtues of honesty, appreciation, gentleness, strength, humility, charity, gratitude, assertiveness, restraint and generosity. These virtues originate from before our lifetimes and last long after we have individually passed on from this earthly life. They lead to growth in personal stature before the Great Spirit and before our brothers and sisters. 6 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

7 of Declaration of Nationhood July 1, 2010 Responsibilities of the Kinakwii People We the people of Kinakwii, a Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation, as part of our Declaration of Nationhood, hereby acknowledge and accept our responsibilities as follows: To worship, honour, listen to and hear the whispers of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of- Mother-Earth-and-Water as a valuable and reverent necessity of life; To fulfill our honour and duty toward our Tribe and our Nation. To welcome and honour strangers, as they are also children of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water; To revere the leadership of those Chieftains, Shamans and Elders who do no evil and serve both the least and the greatest of our people; To preserve and enhance the sanctity of the natural environment and to recycle waste materials from the activities of our lives in recognition that the natural environment is the home of all people, animals and plants that live in it; To be warriors in the defense of our Nation and peacemakers among our enemies; To dispense justice with fair discernment, judgment and wisdom for both the victim and the accused with the assurance that justice and wisdom originates in the Great Spirit; To provide opportunities for our children to develop intellectual skills, moral skills, emotional skills, social skills, employment skills together with their spiritual awareness, and to provide opportunities for adults to pursue life-long learning; To provide opportunities for our people to engage in meaningful, productive employment; To support those who are hungry, and those who are in sickness, infirmity, adversity or in the grip of evil; To encourage each other to be strong, cheerful, gracious, virtuous and clean in body, mind and spirit; To learn from our adversities, to refrain from complaining and to forgive others for their transgressions; To be honest, genuine, assertive and open in our dealing with ourselves, each other and all people; To acknowledge fear and in the face of fear, to be courageous; To be worthy of the love and respect of the Great Spirit, the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and- Water and of all people. 7 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

8 of Declaration of Nationhood July 1, 2010 Rights of the Kinakwii People We the people of Kinakwii, a Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation, as part of our Declaration of Nationhood hereby assert our rights and privileges together with our right to defend them as follows: The right to privacy of our person, our thoughts, our personal information and correspondence; The right to associate and speak freely with each other; The right to health of body, mind and spirit; The right to be respected as equals by the people of equivalent rank in ours and other jurisdictions and cultures; The right to interact and trade with each other and with other peoples in our traditional manner; The right to receive education, knowledge and the development of intellectual skills; The right to peaceful enjoyment of life, liberty and security; The right to justice as provided by the Kinakwii Nation; The right to be protected by the Kinakwii Nation; The right to exercise freely one s opinion, conscience and faith; The right of being free from hate, cruelty and torture; The right of being free from undue judgment and condemnation; The right of being free from harassment; The right of being free from arbitrary arrest, detention and exile; The right of being free from attacks upon one s personal honour and reputation; And all the rights and freedoms provided in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights for Indigenous Peoples. Whenever there may be conflict between the rights of the individual and the rights of the Kinakwii Nation, those of the Nation shall take precedence over those of the individual. 8 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

9 of Declaration of Nationhood July 1, 2010 Principles of Relationships with Other Jurisdictions We the people of Kinakwii, a Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation, as part of our Declaration of Nationhood hereby acknowledge that other jurisdictions, which were created later in time than the origins of Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal People, make claims on the natural resources under our care, impose constraints on our people and proffer benefits to our people in addition to those of our Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Nation. We hereby state our principles of relationship to the people and governments of other jurisdictions as follows: We hereby claim our right to the traditional lands of occupation under the ancient stewardship of our nation together with our right to freely enjoy the pursuit of our culture and our Nations livelihood. These rights predate the arrival of explorers and settlers from Great Britain and Europe and are preserved in the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763 and subsequent legislation. These rights cannot be given or taken away they are fundamental. Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal People have and claim the right of self-governance. To the extent that Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal People also claim the benefits of enjoying citizenship and residency in other countries, nations and jurisdictions they may choose, as free-will human beings, to co-operate with the laws and regulations of those other jurisdictions on a free-will basis. The Sovereign Indigenous Aboriginal Kinakwii Nation and the various mechanisms of its self-governance, accept no automatic obligations to require its Nationals, either individually or collectively, to observe the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions. When there is conflict between the principles of governance of the Sovereign Kinakwii Nation and the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions, the principles of governance of the Sovereign Kinakwii Nation shall take precedence over the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions with respect to Kinakwii Nationals. We, and the leadership of the Sovereign Kinakwii Nation together with our various mechanisms of selfgovernance, hereby declare the right, and accept the obligation, to protect Kinakwii Nationals from persecution by the governments of other jurisdictions and their various agencies and legal creations. Notwithstanding the above, and in keeping with the values, responsibilities, rights and privileges of the Sovereign Kinakwii Nation enumerated herein, the intention of Kinakwii is to interact peacefully with other jurisdictions as far as possible without compromising our values, responsibilities rights and privileges. We, the people of the Kinakwii Nation recognize that each of our individual selves is more than our physical body, and that we together are much more than a collaboration of individual lives. We recognize that, acting as a Sovereign Nation, we are an expression of the magnificence and grandeur of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water. 9 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

10 of Standing July 1, 2010 Notice of Standing In the context of these Notices Standing shall be taken to mean a statement of fact or fundamental truth on which we and the Kinakwii Nation rely and for which there is no factual evidence to the contrary, and this meaning shall be inclusive of the meanings given in the Notice of Meanings of Words and Phrases,. Whereas it is our standing and the standing of the Kinakwii Nation independent from Canada and CANADA that: 1. A Nation in the private domain is a collective of people joined together by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act for a common goal and a common way of life; 2. Kinakwii is an Independent Nation comprised of flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who are sovereign under the Authority of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water (which means Sovereign under God and all synonyms for God) and have joined together by mutual consent as expressed in the Kinakwii Declaration of Nationhood and the Kinakwii Constitution; 3. I, known by the name william allan of the Baldwin Family and Grand Chief of the Great Circle of the Kinakwii Nation and I, known by the name of jon of the Maskell Family and Chief Protector of the Kinakwii Nation and therefore we, in our individual capacities and as formal representatives of the Kinakwii Nation are sovereign and private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls and any and all Kinakwii Nationals are similarly sovereign and private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls acting in the private domain by their own conscious choice; 4. The Kinakwii Nation is a private entity in that it is a formal collective of private flesh-and-bloodliving-sentient-souls acting, as determined by Kinakwii institutions, in their private capacity with full liability and in accordance with the Kinakwii Declaration of Nationhood and the Kinakwii Constitution. The Kinakwii Nation is an interlocking network of private individuals, private entities and private trusts acting in the private domain. 5. The common goal of the Kinakwii Nation and Kinakwii Nationals (numbering 38 flesh-and-bloodsentient-living-souls on the occasion of the proclaiming of the Kinakwii Constitution) is to act in their individual, collective and full commercial capacities as sovereign under the Authority of the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water and to live in accordance with the Kinakwii Declaration of Nationhood and the Kinakwii Constitution; 6. Canadians are flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who are born on the geographic area of land and water commonly known as Canada or flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who have been born elsewhere, moved to, and taken up residence in the geographic area commonly known as Canada and been granted Permanent Resident or Landed Immigrant status by CANADA and all of whom are together the owners of Canada and CANADA; 7. CANADA is a corporation which is a legal concept, a legal entity and also a legal fiction. Its legal existence is founded in constitutional legislation based on the evolved and largely unwritten constitutional conventions of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Canada is a word which may be used loosely to indicate CANADA as the formal 10 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

11 of Standing July 1, 2010 defacto Corporation, and/or the legal concept, and/or the legal fiction, or may be used as a logo for CANADA or may be used to indicate a collective entity of the social aspects of Canadian society that are not formally legal aspects of CANADA. 8. CANADA creates legal entities such as business corporations, non-profit corporations, noncommercial associations and also legal entities for individual persons that are similarly legal fictions and may be represented by Canadians in their individual and private capacity or by other agents such as professional lawyers and accountants. These personal legal fictions are identified by CANADA as a Social Insurance Number, a passport, Canadians birth name or subsequently legally changed name, written in all capital letters and/or a registered Birth Certificate. Personal legal entities created by CANADA remain in existence until the registration of a Death Certificate and the final probate of a last will and testament. (Note, a Registration of Live Birth and a Birth Certificate are NOT the same thing!) 9. Therefore CANADA is an interlocking network of Corporations and legal entities operating in the public domain, which essentially means operating in commerce. Corporations and legal fictions can only exist and interact through the agency of private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls. In the absence of such agency all legal fictions are moot, dormant and without either power or force. 10. CANADA works very well. It is one of the best countries in the world. Its drawback is that it provides very little for the formal existence of the private domain and in many respects, the public domain has invaded the private domain. 11. It is not unlawful in CANADA (or in any other Country that is identified in the United Nations system) for flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls to claim their sovereignty, choose to live in the private domain and become identified with the Kinakwii Nation. This principle of the right for a private and sovereign flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul to claim the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms is enshrined in the Canadian Bill of Rights, RSC1960, Chapter 44 and Regulations. 12. The various legislative, administrative, legal and court systems of CANADA assume and expect that each Canadian individual will act as if the flesh-and-blood-living-sentient-soul and the legal fiction created by CANADA are at all times one and the same or in formal terms, are enjoined to each other. By acting as if this is true, Canadians become the surety for the legal fiction created by CANADA for them. But Canadians do not have to act in accordance with these assumptions and expectations of CANADA. The flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul is not the same as the legal fictional person created by CANADA. 13. On June 11, 2008 the Prime Minister and other leaders of Canada rose in the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament and issued an historic apology in the public domain on behalf of the defacto Government of CANADA to indigenous aboriginal people for the terrible treatment they have received in the past by the authority of the defacto Government of CANADA and at the hands of Government agents and third parties, such as formal religions, other corporations and legal entities, registered by CANADA. 14. This apology by CANADA was formally only an apology to the former students of Indian Residential Schools. Since that policy and these schools lasted for generations, the apology is 11 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

12 of Standing July 1, 2010 essentially for the long-term deprivation by CANADA of the human rights and freedoms of native people in Canada and indeed the refusal of CANADA to accord native people the status of even being persons or to treat them as human. See Notice of Apology, page 37 below for the Official Record of this apology. 15. In so doing CANADA established that there are three distinct groups of people living in Canada; those on whose behalf the Leaders of Canada and CANADA felt duty bound to issue the apology; those to whom the apology was due; and, those Canadians who were not party to the terrible treatment, did not condone it or did not even know of it. 16. Significantly, the government of CANADA did not give this apology the force of a Policy, Act, Statute or Regulation. No one is legally bound by this apology. It is a statement that has all the evidence of intention that CANADA and Canadian political leaders shall be morally bound to be different in the future but it has no force of law, no requirement for future actions of the government to be in honour of the apology, no repeal of Policies, Acts, Statutes or Regulations from the past that gave rise to the need for the apology, and no declaration of an intention for new Policies, Acts Statutes or Regulations in the future. It is a sad fact that public entities cannot be morally bound. They can only be legally bound since they are limited by being legal and fictional creations. 17. The Kinakwii Nation receives and accepts this apology for value, and accepts that it is the intention of the Government of CANADA, the leaders of Canada and the people of Canada to resolve and heal the causes of the terrible treatment of indigenous aboriginal people by those who came from elsewhere and their descendents. The Kinakwii Nation seeks to provide ways that the apology from CANADA to indigenous aboriginal people can acquire real substance in the form of healing, restorative and developmental behaviour patterns that are the resolution of those behavior patterns that gave rise to the need for the apology. 18. We, along with all Kinakwii people, are proud to be Kinakwii Nationals. We are happy to selectively represent, accept the obligations of and enjoy the privileges of a Canadian known as a Canadian citizen with Canadian Citizenship. We recognize and understand the difference. We are proud to be part of providing structure to the independent and private domain on behalf of sovereign indigenous aboriginal people so we can work together with Canadians in the public domain to give substance to CANADA s historic apology. 19. The Kinakwii Nation and Kinakwii Nationals expect to be a factual living example of what it means to live in either the private domain or the public domain, by choice on a moment by moment basis. 20. Furthermore the Kinakwii Nation expects, within its own independent, separate and sovereign authority, to develop peaceful and productive associations with CANADA and with other countries and commercial corporations with which there may be benefits for the Kinakwii Nation and for Kinakwii Nationals. 12 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

13 of Comprehension July 1, 2010 Notice of Comprehension And whereas it is our comprehension as independent and private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls and the comprehension of independent and private Kinakwii Nationals who have proclaimed the Kinakwii Nation that the following statements are not untrue in relation to CANADA and that there is no concrete or factual evidence to the contrary: 1. Canada is a corporation with the name CANADA (central index key ) registered on the Securities Exchange Commission and its business address is CANADIAN EMBASSY, 1746 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON DC, and it s residence at the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and many other buildings in Ottawa and other cities throughout Canada. 2. The Great Spirit, with the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water is the creator of all natural things and the Grantor of all benefits of being alive on Earth. 3. The nominal ownership of the Canada and CANADA is by all those flesh-and-blood-sentientliving-souls born on the geographic area commonly referred to as Canada together with all those born elsewhere who have been granted Permanent Resident or Landed Immigrant status by CANADA. 4. The operational and legal ownership of CANADA is by the CROWN as a trustee on behalf of Canadians as beneficiaries of the generosity of the Great Spirit and the CROWM has all the obligations of a trustee to deliver the benefits to the beneficiaries. 5. CANADA and all its legal entities and corporations enjoy the rule of Statute Law and all Canadian flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls enjoy the protection of Common Law. 6. Common Law is the body of principles and rules that apply to actions relating to the security, interaction and enjoyment of private flesh- and-blood-sentient-living-souls who act with full liability for their actions at all times. Common law has its origins in Divine law and in the times before there was either government or Statute Law. 7. Statute Law is the body of legislated Policies, Acts, Statutes and Regulations given the force of law that apply to legal entities, corporations and other legal fictions created by government. They enjoy limited liability status. They are further reinforced by juristic decisions arrived at by government appointed judges in defacto courts that are themselves created by, and subject to, Policies, Acts, Statutes and Regulations created by legislation. These court processes include the provision of remedies for the resolution of the conflict before the court which are not declared to all parties in the process of the court. Statute Law is given the force of law even though it is not in and of itself, lawful. 8. The Law Societies, Bar Associations and Legislative Bodies are the bodies that create Laws, Acts Statutes and Regulations and therefore such laws, Acts and Statutes and Regulations are applicable only to the members of those societies, associations and legislative bodies that created them and to those non-members who voluntarily consent. 13 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

14 of Comprehension July 1, The members of the various bodies that create Laws, Acts, Statutes and Regulations, i.e., lawyers, solicitors, barristers, Queen s counselors, prosecutors, public defenders, magistrates, justices and judges are, in fact, the interlocutors between the private domain and the public domain. Although individuals in the private domain can always see and participate in the public domain, the public domain cannot see the private domain except by the agency of members of the legal profession as advocates for the legal entity the legal person created and owned by the government for the private individual. 10. The requirement of equality of all persons before the Law is mandatory; in the absence of equality, what may be called a law cannot, in fact, be a law! (Note: person here means legal entity, not private individual) 11. The law of principal and agent applies to Statute Law and therefore service on one is service upon both. 12. Policies, Acts, Statutes and Regulations are formally legislated rules of society that apply to legal persons, corporations, and other legal fictions created by government. 13. For something to exist under Statute Law it must have a name. 14. CANADA has formal and informal procedures which seek to enjoin agent and principal, which in this instance means to enjoin or entrap the flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul with the fiction created by CANADA and thereby make the flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul an inadvertent legal member who tacitly or involuntarily consents as surety to all Policies, Laws, Acts Statutes and Regulations. 15. In the absence of joinder or entrapment the flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul may choose to represent any legal entity or choose not to. 16. In the absence of joinder or entrapment the exercise of choice by a flesh-and-blood-sentient-livingsoul to represent a legal entity is with respect to a specific occasion, event or circumstance in real time and the exercise of such choice for a specific occasion, event or circumstance does not automatically carry over to any other occasion, event or circumstance or other legal entities. 17. The only form of Government proclaimed as lawful in Canada and CANADA is a representative government. 18. Representation requires mutual consent of those representing and those being represented and ongoing accountability of those representing to those represented. 19. In the absence of mutual consent neither representation nor governance can exist. 20. All Governments and Corporations and/or legal entities, and/or legal fictions which provide services, benefits and privileges are defacto. 21. All Corporations are legal entities that provide services, benefits and privileges. 14 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

15 of Comprehension July 1, All Governments and Corporations in Canada are bound by the Statute defined as the Criminal Code Concordance. 23. All Acts are Statutes restricted in scope and applicability by Canadian Constitutional Legislation, and Section 32 of the Canadian Constitution Act limits constitutional legislation to members and employees of the Government. 24. In the presence of joinder those who have a Social Insurance Number (SIN) are defacto, but not actual, employees of the Government of CANADA and thus may be bound by the Acts and Statutes created by the Government of CANADA, or the Provinces and Municipalities created under the authority of CANADA, for their members and employees unless they choose to sever their consent. 25. It is not unlawful to take private control of a Social Insurance Number and any other benefits or privileges granted by CANADA. 26. Every flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul in Canada or CANADA has the capacity for human rights and privileges and the freedom to choose to selectively become an operative for any aspect of CANADA and to selectively choose to be or not to be the agent for a CANADA created legal entity. 27. Flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls in Canada and CANADA have the capacity for the human right to revoke, deny previous consent of contract or refuse to contract to be represented and thus to be governed. 28. If anyone does revoke or deny consent to be governed they exist free of government control and statutory constraints and all that this implies. 29. A Claim of Right establishes Lawful Excuse and this factual truth is expressed in Section 39 of the Statute defined as the Criminal Code Concordance and used by CANADA as law in the court systems. 30. If a person or a group of persons are in possession of property as flesh-and-blood-sentient-livingsoul(s) under a Claim of Right, they have the authority to appoint anyone to protect that property and they have protection from criminal responsibility for defending that property, even against a person who may appear to be entitled by law to take possession of it and this factual truth is expressed in Section 39 of the Statute defined as the Criminal Code Concordance. 31. Flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who declare and have Lawful Excuse are not obliged to obey a Court, Tribunal, Statute, Act or Judicial Order as applied to legal entities of defacto governments and this factual truth is expressed in Section 126 and 127 of the Statute defined as the Criminal Code Concordance. 32. Section 15 of the Statute defined as the Criminal Code Concordance clearly establishes that it is not unlawful to disobey a de facto Government or Court; 33. All existing Courts and Governments are de facto and not de jure. 15 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

16 of Comprehension July 1, Flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls acting peacefully within the context of a publicly proclaimed and announced Declaration of Nationhood and Constitution cannot be construed as unlawful. 35. All transactions of security interests require the consent of all parties to the transaction for the transactions to be considered as valid and lawful transactions. 36. We are, and Kinakwii Nationals are, private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who have the capacity to and, in fact, are operating in commerce with full commercial responsibility and liability, are not children and we do not need to ask for permission to engage in rightful, peaceful and private activities especially from those who claim limited liability status. 37. Police Officers or any other officers of the Government of CANADA, or of its Provinces or of their Municipalities who have taken an Oath of Office which, in fact and in law, is an Oath of Loyalty to QUEEN ELIZABETH II and also to the CROWN, and they are agents of the CROWN and/or QUEEN ELIZABETH II in the Right of CANADA and/or its Provinces and/or their Municipalities and have a duty to distinguish among Acts, Statutes, Regulations and peace and good governance. 38. Police Officers are under an obligation of their Oath of Office to fulfill two functions; the first is to keep the peace and the second is to enforce Statute policy and the obligations of keeping the peace takes precedence over enforcement of policy. 39. Police Officers who are acting to keep the peace have the duty and obligation of their Oath of Office to protect all flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-souls who have not been observed to be in breach of the peace from any and all harassment and/or violence from and by other people, persons, governments, corporations, organizations, entities or agents thereof. 40. Police Officers, or any other agents of the Government of CANADA or its Provinces and Municipalities, acting as Policy Enforcement Officers under the authority of an Oath of Office and attempting to enforce Policies, Acts, Statutes and Regulations against private flesh-and-bloodsentient-living-souls who are in peace and honour and in the private domain are, in fact, acting without authority, beyond and outside of the law. 41. A private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul has the power and the right to refuse to interact or enter into contract with police officers or any other policy enforcement officers of the Government of CANADA, or of its Provinces or of their Municipalities who have not observed him/her to be in breach of the peace. 42. A private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul has the sovereign power and the right to refuse to interact or enter into contract with a policy enforcement officer acting under the authority of an Oath of Office when that policy enforcement officer is attempting to enforce a policy that prevails over legal entities to which the flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul is not enjoined or entrapped. 43. A by-law is defined as a rule of a corporation; it is therefore not a public law, it is a corporate policy. 16 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

17 of Comprehension July 1, Corporations are legal fictions and require contracts and agreements in order to establish and claim authority or control over other parties. 45. Any private flesh-and-blood-sentient-living-soul can use the services of a Notary Public to perform public duties and those found under any Policy, Act, Statute or Regulation of CANADA or its Provinces and Municipalities. Thus a Notary Public has the power to hold court, receive evidence and issue binding lawful documents; and, if a Notary Public fails in carrying out a duty he/she has abandoned the Office to which he/she was appointed by CANADA or its Provinces and is therefore in dishonor of the CROWN. 46. All land that is presently or was formerly, since the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and subsequently the British North America Act of 1867, referred to as CROWN Land is or was held in trust by the CROWN; such CROWN land is or was not held in trust by the CROWN for any other beneficiary except the native, indigenous, aboriginal people, and their descendents, who occupied and inhabited Turtle Island prior to the arrival of the colonialists and their subsequent claims and codification of the concept of ownership of land and there is no evidence to the contrary. 47. It is time in honour of, and respect for, the apology given by Canada and CANADA on June 11, 2008 referred to above, for the Trust inherent in the existence of Crown Land to be settled. With respect to all those lands for which the original Trust cannot be settled because the land has already been compromised by the actions of CANADA, and/or its Provinces, and/or its Municipalities in the time since the proclamation of 1763 and British North America Act of 1867, it is time for compensation and/or consideration to be claimed and the inherent trust settled. 48. Anyone who has Faith in the Divine Energy commonly referred to as God, or the Great Spirit and the Spirit-of-Mother-Earth-and-Water and who defends his/her own right to sovereignty and freedom to hold such a faith and defends the rights of others to claim their sovereignty and freedom to hold such a faith is a Defender of the Faith; and a Defender of the Faith may travel freely upon and above the lands and waters of Canada and CANADA and the Commonwealth. 17 witnessed on each page is seen in Overview

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