As far as I am concerned these warrior societies are a 'community private army' (armed) of native origin, who seem to think they are above the law.
These societies are dangerous, and should be illegal. The promotion and acceptance of private 'militias' no matter what racial or ethnic background on Canadian soil should not be tollerated at all.
I remember in Regina, post Oka, a native came into a local gun shop with a Yugoslavian M65 (RPK) with drum mags, 40rd AK mags, and complete EIS and 100's of,7.62 x 39mm ball, wanting $600 for the lot. He ws evasive when 'warrior society' was mentioned, but did not identify what IR he was from. Needless to say there was a transaction. I bought it ;D
The LMG haad been crudely converted to SA by only one mod on the trigger sear (end ground off), leaving all other FA parts intact (rate reducer, hammer, notch on carrier, auto sear, and tip of the safety catch). It is possible this was done on the IR, and the wpn came thru the US/Cdn border earlier on, maybe by AIM or other similar organisation.
Prior to the new gun legislation, the wpn was indeed mod'd to meet the criteria of other CA AK family wpns, it was registered and then later sold off prior to my leaving Canada.
Having corrupt private paramilitaries, semi organised or better does still scare me, as during Oka even in Saskatchewan some farmers (who's property borderd on IR land) reported to their local Dets of the RCMP, that they had heard large amounts of small arms fire coming from property inside IRs. This was thought to be fire and movement during section battle drills training. Also locally natives were buying 10's of thousands of rds of 5.56 and 7.62 x39mm from gun shops, and this was on the prairies not in Quebec where all the media atention was at the time.
Mind you this was all back in 1990/91, and all the attention died off due to the GW1, etc.
Regards,
Wes