The TorStar in their Feb 1, 2017 story on this issue, quoted former Chief "Wilmer Nadjiwon, 95, was chief of Chippewas Nawash Nation for 14 years starting in 1964, had planned to testify.

“What we would have done is tell the federal minister of Indian affairs that this is not the way to respect our people, not the way to preserve our identity and honour our special relationship with the Crown,” Nadjiwon says in an affidavit.  “And if our children are forced to leave, we need to know they will return to the reserve because they have family here who love them ... that they have a special place in our community . . . but we did not have the opportunity to say these things.”

Unfortunately, the Federal Crown refused to listen to him or other Native leaders.    Mainstream media doesn't report this too often, so one is left with the incorrect impression that "nobody protested this action when it occurred".