Cost of aboriginal language transcripts prevents court appeals</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Cost of aboriginal language transcripts prevents court appeals"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Cost,of,aboriginal,language,transcripts,prevents,court,appeals"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">06-01-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Cost of aboriginal language transcripts prevents court appeals</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Regina, Canada: A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that the Canadian government is not required by the constitution to provide transcripts of aboriginal languages for court appeals. <br>During a earlier court case that pitted the Ochapowace Indian Band and Chief Denton George against Ottawa over a tax matter, court heard testimony from First Nations elders who spoke in Cree and Saulteaux. <br>The department said transcripts of the English translation were available, but if they wanted exact transcripts of the Cree and Saulteaux parts, it would cost them $250 a page. <br>Chief George argued that by refusing the transcripts at a reasonable cost, the government was violating their rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://sask.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/aboriginal050105.html " target="blank">sask.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/aboriginal050105.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show