Winter 2003

In late April 2001, media attention was riveted around the tear gas soaked streets of Quebec City. A major figure in the popular summit held against globalization was AFN National Chief, Matthew Coon Come, who was revered as an environmental hero for his leading role in the 1994 defeat of the proposed James Bay Two hydro-electric project.

The thousands of demonstrators, many of which braved water cannons, did not know that Coon Come had a change of values and would be soon in secret negotiations with the Quebec government to plan to build new hydro power dams.