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Living In Perfect Harmony: Harmonizing Sub-Artic Co-Management Through Judicial Review, Sari Graben
Living In Perfect Harmony: Harmonizing Sub-Artic Co-Management Through Judicial Review, Sari Graben
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
To foster the participation of Aboriginal peoples in resource governance, the Government of Canada has recently restructured a number of administrative regimes, converting them into institutions of co-management. Despite this restructuring, the degree to which Aboriginal peoples’ participation can influence the regulatory output of co-management boards remains uncertain in law. This article deconstructs one interpretive method that can impact participation in co-management regimes: harmonization. Drawing on a trilogy of cases, I argue that recent judicial efforts to harmonize the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act with its predecessor, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, can limit the regional interpretive differences that Aboriginal …