Transmission record of the Open Memorandum and the non-response register for G72 and G73.
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GAZETTE NO. 74 · GZT001-260611-000074 [now GZT001-260114-000074]
Open Memorandum Gazette Entry — Transmission Record and Non-Response Register
INSTRUMENT PARTICULARS
Gazette Number: No. 74 — GZT001-260611-000074 [now GZT001-260114-000074]
Register Entry: REG001-070700-000074
Instrument Type: Gazette Entry — Transmission Record and Non-Response Register
Category: Cat 07 — Correspondence and Service
Class: Class 01 — Public
Date of Instrument: June 16, 2026
Date of Gazette: June 16, 2026
Issuing Officer: Benjamin Doolittle UE — Secretary-General
Status: 05 — Perfected / Published
Tracking Code: SG0701-260611-000074
Primary Instrument: SG0701-260611-T00001 — Open Memorandum (Taxation Without Consent on the Haldimand Tract, June 11, 2026)
Publication: Two Row Times, Ohsweken, Grand River Territory — Press of Record of the Secretariat
I. PURPOSE OF THIS GAZETTE ENTRY
This Gazette entry formally enters into the institutional record of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat the following matters arising from or concurrent with the transmission of the Open Memorandum (SG0701-260611-T00001) on June 16, 2026:
1. The formal transmission of the Open Memorandum to the Crown, its ministers, and all named recipients on June 16, 2026.
2. The formal entry of the non-response of the Crown to Gazette No. 72 (Formal Offer of Peace, GZT001-260528-000072) and Gazette No. 73 (Notice of Ceremonial Invitation to the Pipe, GZT001-260528-000073) into the institutional record. Both instruments carried a 14-day response window from the date of transmission on May 28, 2026. That window expired on June 11, 2026 without substantive Crown response. The non-response is formally documented in this Gazette entry as part of the constitutional record and will be relied upon in all subsequent proceedings.
3. The establishment of Register Entry REG001-070700-000001 formally linking the Open Memorandum to the Secretariat’s full institutional correspondence record.
4. The cross-referencing of all related instruments in the active Secretariat record as of June 11, 2026.
II. THE OPEN MEMORANDUM — SG0701-260611-T00001
The Open Memorandum drafted June 11, 2026 and dispatched June 16, 2026 under tracking code SG0701-260611-T00001 and Register Entry REG001-070700-000001 is a formal institutional instrument of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat. It is addressed to His Majesty King Charles III, the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Attorney General of Canada, the Attorney General of Ontario, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, the Minister of Indigenous Affairs (Ontario), the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario), the City of Brantford, the County of Brant, the Elected Council of the Six Nations of the Grand River Band, the Crown Attorney (Brantford), and all ministers, officers, and agents of the Crown having notice.
The Open Memorandum advances eight demands, documents the constitutional chain from the Haldimand Pledge of 1779 through section 109 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and is published in the Two Row Times as the press of record of the Secretariat. Publication amplifies the formal character of the instrument: every reader becomes a witness that the Crown and its agents have been formally informed.
Instrument Reference: SG0701-260611-T00001 · Open Memorandum · Drafted June 11, 2026 · Dispatched June 16, 2026. REG001-070700-000001 · Register Entry · Correspondence Branch. Cross-Reference: GZT001-260611-000074 [now GZT001-260114-000074] · This Gazette Entry.
III. NON-RESPONSE RECORD — G72 AND G73
Gazette No. 72 (GZT001-260528-000072) and Gazette No. 73 (GZT001-260528-000073) were transmitted to the Crown, filed with the Ontario Court of Justice in matter BR26001881, and served on the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada on May 28, 2026.
Gazette No. 72 — Formal Offer of Peace. Gazette No. 72 constitutes a formal offer of peace from the Mohawk Nation of Grand River to the Crown, grounded in the Two Row Wampum (Kaswentha) and the Kaianere’kó:wa (Great Law of Peace). In the Haudenosaunee diplomatic tradition, the offer of peace is not a concession. It is a sovereign act — the formal extension of the Great Law of Peace to another nation, recognizing that nation as capable of receiving it. G72 carried a 14-day response window from May 28, 2026. The response window expired June 11, 2026.
NON-RESPONSE CONFIRMED — G72 — Window Expired June 11, 2026 — Entered in Record. The Crown’s non-response to the Formal Offer of Peace is formally entered into the institutional record of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat. It will be relied upon as evidence at the September 1, 2026 constitutional hearing in BR26001881 and in the Application for Writ of Mandamus (G63). A Crown that has been offered peace and has not responded is not a Crown acting in good faith toward its covenant obligations.
Gazette No. 73 — Notice of Ceremonial Invitation to the Pipe. Gazette No. 73 extends a formal ceremonial invitation from the Mohawk Nation of Grand River to the Crown to the pipe ceremony — the customary Haudenosaunee diplomatic act that formally opens nation-to-nation council between sovereign peoples. The pipe ceremony is not a request for personal religious or cultural accommodation. It is a constitutional diplomatic instrument under customary Mohawk law governing the opening of inter-sovereign engagements. G73 carried a 14-day response window from May 28, 2026. The response window expired June 11, 2026.
NON-RESPONSE CONFIRMED — G73 — Window Expired June 11, 2026 — Entered in Record. The Crown’s non-response to the Ceremonial Invitation to the Pipe is formally entered into the institutional record of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat. The non-response to G73 directly answers the Court’s prior dismissal of Gazette No. 70 (Notice of Customary Protocol Deficiency). G70 documented the Crown’s failure to observe Mohawk customary diplomatic protocol. G73 extended the formal invitation. The Crown’s non-response confirms the protocol deficiency documented in G70 is not incidental. It is structural.
Legal Significance of G72 / G73 Non-Response. The Crown has now been offered both tracks of engagement available under the Secretariat’s institutional framework: the legal track (five constitutional questions submitted before the May 4, 2026 deadline, unanswered; Application for Writ of Mandamus filed; Open Memorandum transmitted) and the diplomatic track (Formal Offer of Peace under G72; Ceremonial Invitation to the Pipe under G73). The Crown has performed on neither track. Both offers were formally extended. Both response windows have expired without substantive Crown engagement.
This dual non-response strengthens the nemo judex in causa sua argument. The Crown is simultaneously the party whose conduct is in question and the administrator of the courts in which the questions are being heard. Its failure to engage through either legal or diplomatic channels when those channels were formally opened is not passive. It is the continuation of the 205-year pattern of avoidance documented in the Applicant’s affidavit (paras 106–126) and the External Correspondence Record (G30, ECR).
The Permanent Court of Arbitration — the modern institutional successor to Queen Anne’s 1704 standing JCPC commission — remains available as the last institutional resort before self-help attaches. The Secretariat has demanded Canada’s consent to PCA arbitration (Demand 8 of the Open Memorandum). That demand, like the offers of peace and pipe, remains unanswered.
IV. CROSS-REFERENCE INDEX — RELATED INSTRUMENTS (as at June 11, 2026)
SG0701-260611-T00001 — Open Memorandum — Taxation Without Consent on the Haldimand Tract — June 16, 2026 — Transmitted
GZT001-260528-000072 — G72 — Formal Offer of Peace — May 28, 2026 — Non-response confirmed
GZT001-260528-000073 — G73 — Notice of Ceremonial Invitation to the Pipe — May 28, 2026 — Non-response confirmed
GZT001-260310-000063 — G63 — Application for Writ of Mandamus — Mar 10, 2026 — Active, Superior Court
GZT001-260310-000064 — G64 — Memorandum of Fact and Law v3 — June 11, 2026 — Active, Superior Court
GZT001-260101-000065 [now GZT001-260204-000065] — G65 — Renewed Jurisdictional Objection — Apr 23, 2026 — Filed, BR26001881
GZT001-260101-000066 [now GZT001-260312-000066] — G66 — Constitutional Questions Notice — Apr 23, 2026 — Filed, BR26001881
GZT001-260101-000069 [now GZT001-260413-000069] — G69 — Conflict of Interest Notice — Apr 27, 2026 — Filed, BR26001881
GZT001-260101-000070 [now GZT001-260413-000070] — G70 — Notice of Customary Protocol Deficiency — Apr 27, 2026 — Filed, BR26001881
GZT001-260101-000071 [now GZT001-260305-000071] — G71 — Post-Mandamus Program Directive — May 2026 — Perfected
GZT001-260611-000075 — G75 — MNG Patent and IP Registry — June 11, 2026 — 13 Provisional
GZT001-260611-000076 — G76 — Parcel Administration Program — June 11, 2026 — 13 Provisional
NJP001-260316-000001 — Notice of Jurisdictional Position — Mar 16, 2026 — Filed, BR26001881
GZT001-010300-000030 [now GZT001-260606-000030] — G30 — External Correspondence Record (ECR) — Living instrument — Current v3
BR26001881 — Provincial Offences, HTA, Brantford — Active — Sept 1, 2026 hearing
BR26009288 — NVR Plate Seizure, McManus #457 — Active — Demands outstanding
LTR001-260613-000001 — Band Council Notice, Six Nations Elected Council — June 13, 2026 — Served
V. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITIES CROSS-REFERENCED IN THE OPEN MEMORANDUM
Haldimand Pledge, May 25, 1779 — Status quo ante bellum; inter-sovereign obligation; Crown covenant origin
Haldimand Proclamation, Oct 25, 1784 — Crown dedication in perpetuity; exclusive use and enjoyment; Doctrine of Dedication
Royal Proclamation, 1763 — Taking by pretence; misprision of treason; s.25 Charter
Constitution Act, 1867, s.109 — Crown-derived prior interest; other interest not of the Province
Constitution Act, 1982, s.52 — Supremacy; inconsistent laws of no force or effect
Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (1704–1776) — Nemo judex; standing Crown-Indigenous tribunal; 1704 JCPC commission
Ontario Mining Co. v. Seybold [1903] — s.109 encumbrance; provincial grant subject to prior federal interest
Wilkes v. Jackson, ex doe dem — No collective or body politic created; hereditary individual interest
Kirk v. Morris, 40 Ala. 225 (1866) — Stranger / such other; exclusive benefit; Simcoe Patent rejection
Logan v. Styres (1959), Ont. H.C. — Six Nations governance is domestic; not a body politic; Indian Act governs
Isaac v. Davey (Osler J., Ont. S.C.) — Haldimand covenant outside Indian Act; sovereign Mohawk land; reversed on appeal not on merits
R. v. Desautel, 2021 SCC 17 — Rights travel with descent; not band membership
W.L. Stone, Life of Joseph Brant (1838) — Notoriously for exclusive benefit of the Mohawk nation; Five Nations never clothed with rights
A.C. Parker, Constitution of the Five Nations (1916) — Five Nations originally independent with no political coherence; Confederacy = peace compact, not merger
UNDRIP Arts. 26(2), 28, 40 — Acquired territory; redress; just procedures
Hague Conventions 1899 and 1907; PCA — Institutional successor to 1704 JCPC standing commission
VI. DEADLINES AND NEXT STEPS (as at June 11, 2026)
June 16, 2026 — Written reasons from JP Bouchard (14 days from June 2 filing). If not received: Declaration of Non-Response DNR002 to be issued and entered. G72/G73 peace offer response window also closed on this date — non-response entered in this Gazette.
Monday, June 16 — JPRC Complaint against JP Bouchard — to be filed by registered mail to Justices of the Peace Review Council, 1 Queen Street East, Box 65, Toronto, Ontario M5C 2W5 (fax 416-327-2339).
June 27, 2026 — Divisional Court Judicial Review Application — 30 days from May 28, 2026 hearing. 10 grounds per Appeal Strategy Memorandum v17. Gazette No. 77 to be assigned upon filing.
September 1, 2026 — BR26001881 — Constitutional Hearing — Ontario Court of Justice, Brantford, JP Bouchard. Five constitutional questions approved May 28, 2026.
October 5, 2026 — Six Nations v. Canada and Ontario — Phase 1 opens. Secretariat not a party. Band Council Notice LTR001-260613-000001 on file.
VII. ATTESTATION AND CERTIFICATION
This Gazette entry is issued under the authority of the Secretary-General of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat and is entered into the Register of the Nation under the Registrar General’s certification.
Secretary-General: Benjamin Doolittle UE, Secretary-General, Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat — Date
Registrar General — Certification: Jesse Butler UE, Registrar General, Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat — Date of Certification
GZT001-260611-000074 [now GZT001-260114-000074] · Gazette No. 74 · Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat · Grand River Territory, Haldimand Tract · Published in the Two Row Times, Ohsweken · June 16, 2026
