'It's vexatious and abusive': Big timber lawyer says N.B. Indigenous title claim is a threat to industry

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The Wolastoqey Nation's attempt to recover millions of acres of privately held woodlands in New Brunswick is"an attack on an industry," says the lawyer for a big timber firm.

Cameron, a veteran lawyer at the Stewart McKelvey law firm in Fredericton, accused the Indigenous leaders of singling out the most successful timber companies, leaving behind mines, farms and scores of other enterprises, as a tactic in their fight with the provincial government. Lawyers for the Wolastoqey Nation have a chance to reply Thursday and Friday to the submissions all week from the so-called industrial defendants to strike their properties from the claim.

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