They should not have been in the running for the FM frequency, he believes. He said he believes in the system. He is a part of the broadcasting system and believes it has treated him fairly for the most part. That just makes it more puzzling for him that, after he allied himself with an Aboriginal group, the system seemed to stop working the way it should. I hope that's not the case.
CRTC sources insist there was no political influence behind the decision.
Ian Morrison, spokesman for the Friends of Public Broadcasting, a group that watches CRTC decisions and other developments in the Canadian broadcasting business, said the CBC needed to make the change because the AM 740 frequency was unreliable. There were five million people affected by this. They wanted a strong CBC signal in the Toronto market. On Sept. 25, lawyers working for the Ministry of National Revenue filed a notice of appeal of Judge William P. McKeown's 105-page decision in favor of Mohawk Chief Mike Mitchell. McKeown ruled the Mohawks had a constitutionally-protected Aboriginal right to freely cross a border that was drawn through their traditional territory by the colonial powers.