Canada’s top court is currently weighing a $2-million dispute that has embroiled a Quebec lawyer and a Montreal-area Mohawk community for more than two decades. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case, which may be handed down this fall, could effectively cancel a debt owed to the lawyer by the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake since 2004. Serious financial problems led the federal government to place the band council under third-party management in 2003. The band council argues it was never told a seizure of its property had been attempted, and the episode shouldn’t be allowed to restart the clock. If the top court sides with the band council, it would mean the 10-year window has now elapsed and Kanesatake is free of the debt.