Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:37 pm
Sure it's public land if I want to hunt, fish, hike, pick berries, bird-watch etc. But "public" doesn't mean that anybody can do just anything they like with it.
Technically, no one is allowed to build a permanent or semi-permanent structure on crown (public) land. If you could, there would be thousands and thousands of squatters' shacks, and hunting and fishing shacks, on crown land all over Northern Ontario. Maybe there was a time when the gov't could have quietly ignored what Darlene Necan was doing, but that's not possible now. If the reserve is just up the road, maybe that's the best solution for her?