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She felt threatened, bullied, upset, disappointed, afraid and panicked, sick and distraught

The following day, the chief led a contingent that included the deputy chief, seven of the eight band councillors, a Nishnawbe-Aski police officer and band security to the house that Fiddler and Kamalatisit shared.

“There was no need for such a show of force and it only could have been intended to frighten and scare the complainant. They were successful, for the complainant hid in the house until the commotion had died down,” Ulyatt wrote.

Kamalatisit and Fiddler travelled to a nursing station that evening, he added, because she worried she was having a heart attack, trying to be secretive about it because they feared the chief and council would take action against her.

Kamalatisit and her son were then medically evacuated to Thunder Bay, Ont., 600 kilometres southeast of the fly-in community they called home.

“This effectively destroyed the family as the complainant and (her son) could not return to Sandy Lake,” Ulyatt wrote. “The evidence was that there was never a reunification with the family or extended family.”

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He said that Kamalatisit was targeted because Fiddler, who lost bids for band council in 2010 and 2012, had been involved in an effort to oust the chief and councillor after running for the second time.

Several disgruntled band members, Fiddler included, had circulated petitions and letters that accused Bart Meekis, who was chief at the time, and a band councillor of having extra-marital affairs while in office, Ulyatt wrote. Meekis is no longer chief and the councillor has since died.