Backgrounder
Governance Pilot Project of the Opitciwan First Nation

The Conseil des Atikameks d'Opitciwan assumes the mandate of implementing an electoral code and a process to enact by-laws representing the community's consensus.

As mentioned in the project "Working group's mandate on by-laws and judicial processing. (...) The working group conducts a follow-up on statements of offense, fines, etc., and issues recommendations on the selection of the judicial processing, such as the Elders Council and/or the Court of Justice."

The Obedjiwan reserve is located on the northern shore of the Gouin Reservoir, 143 kilometres south of Chibougamau.

For more information, please contact:

Charles Jean-Pierre
Advisor, Public Securoty
Conseil des Atikameks d’Opitciwan
(819) 974-8837

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