Summary On May 25, 2022 the BC Supreme Court (BCSC) released its judgment in Reece v. Canada (Attorney General) 2022 BCSC 865, a dispute involving the sale of the Nasoga Lands in northwestern British Columbia to the Nisga’a Nation by the Province, to which the “Allied Tribes” (a group comprised of members of the Lax…
28 June 2022 Bennett Jones LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In November 2019, British Columbia passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (the Act) committing the Province to implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…
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14 June 2022 MLT Aikins LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. For the first time, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal considered the extent to which the Métis can claim a right to hunt and fish for food under Section 35 (1) of the…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. When speaking of their victory in the Federal election on the night of 21 May 2022, the Foreign Minister-elect and Prime Minister-elect both gave an indication of how their Government would approach indigenous recognition and representation nationally, in just the…
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