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First Nations located around the resource-rich northern shore of Lake Superior are asking for $126-billion in compensation for the Crown’s failure to pay annuity increases promised in an 1850 treaty.

The figure is set out in submissions for a 24-year-old case entering final arguments this week, pitting the Anishinaabe signatories to the 1850 Robinson-Superior Treaty against the federal and provincial governments.

Five years ago, during the first stage of the trial, Ontario Superior Court Justice Patricia Hennessy sided with the Anishinaabe, ruling the Crown had indeed broken a pledge to augment the annuity payments as resource revenues from the region poured in.

What’s more, the province has calculated that it actually lost $4.2-billion on resource development in the region once it accounts for the cost of constructing railways, roads and other infrastructure.

Canada states in court submissions that such an award would range from $578-million to $2.45-billion, and that Ottawa should be liable for between 15 and 20 per cent, Ontario paying the remainder.

To highlight that reality, the court heard testimony from Raymond Goodchild, an elder and member of the Pays Plat First Nation.

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