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Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

Canadian constitutional law

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The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery Jan 1992

The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery

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This paper considers a range of differing approaches to the question of Aboriginal land rights in the light of the judgment of the B.C. Supreme Court in the Delgamuukw case.


The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery Jan 1983

The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery

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Canada is in independent state and has been for many years. Its sovereign status has long been acknowledged by the international community and the courts. So the constitutional manoeuvres that culminated in the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982, by the British Parliament, must strike any observer as a somewhat puzzling series of events. How can we explain the fact that a sovereign state should consider itself bound to employ the legislature of another sovereign state to secure for itself a new constitution? Underlying this question are a number of fundamental issues going to the foundations of the Canadian legal …