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1. Trudeau government bill may grant First Nations veto power over pipelines and other projects

   Appeared in the National Post, December 19, 2020 Federal Minister of Justice David Lametti recently unveiled Bill C-15, whose purpose is to authorize a three-year plan for taking “all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent” ...

2. Clarity and confusion? The new jurisprudence of aboriginal title

   The Supreme Court of Canada has revolutionized the jurisprudence of aboriginal rights and title. Various decisions have overturned the doctrine of adverse occupancy, which at one time had been thought to have extinguished aboriginal title in British ...

3. Aboriginal title’s true meaning: billable hours

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail Adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 made treaty and Aboriginal rights constitutional, though no one knew at the time what that meant. We are gradually finding out as the Supreme Court of Canada develops a ...