In Takuhikan c Procureur général du Québec, 2022 QCCA 1699, [Takuhikan], the Court of Appeal of Québec (“QCCA”) held that the governments of Canada and Québec breached their honour of...
On April 23, 2021, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in R v Desautel, 2021 SCC 17 [Desautel] that “the aboriginal peoples of Canada,” who hold rights...
In May of this year, thirty years will have passed since R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 SCR 1075 [Sparrow] was released. Sparrow was the first decision to apply section 35 of...
Section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, recognizes and affirms existing Aboriginal and treaty rights. Section 35(2) defines “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” as being the “Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples...
