Sentences with phrase «aboriginal issues at»

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If aboriginal people in this region are ever to progress at the rate expected by politicians and others it is essential that they have the ability to be both economocally and culturally «independent» of those who claim to know best how to address the issues but really have no prolonged on the ground experience.

Looking at the international scene, he is convinced that Canadians have an edge because of all the constant political struggles occurring in - house, both federally and provincially, not to mention aboriginal issues.

Hallman said air quality monitoring has indicated no air issues at either Gogama or a nearby aboriginal community.

David McRobert, a member of the Ontario Bar Association's aboriginal law section, says he hopes the committee will look at aboriginal justice issues in the context of broader problems facing First Nations communities.

At issue is whether the judge gave sufficient consideration to the fact that the applicant is aboriginal and whether the sentence would differ between an aboriginal and non-aboriginal offender.

Speaking at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Indigenous Law Issues 2015 program, Randall Kahgee, former Chief of the Saugeen First Nation and now practising law in affiliation with Pape Salter Teillet LLP, urges lawyers to understand that the rights of aboriginal people, like the rights of all people, are continually evolving.

As the chair in Indigenous Governance and academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson, she has had a huge impact on aboriginal governance issues.

He is also a regular speaker at conferences and law schools on aboriginal legal issues.

By appointing her, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is «clearly sending a signal» that aboriginal issues in the justice system are going to be important to the new government, says James Morton, a litigator at Morton Karrass LLP.

«Thanks to the federal government, who has done nothing on this issue other than pass the Indian Act, there is no over-arching legislation that provides certainty in relation to acquisition of consent, unless the band and the collective self - identify,» said Charles Willms, chairman of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver aboriginal law practice, speaking at the panel, Key Legal Cases in Canada: The Current Landscape.

Native Youth at Risk Courtlink A program designed to address the justice - related issues of aboriginal youth who are at risk and who exhibit low self - esteem and behavioural problems.

Consultation Update: Emerging & Persistent Issues Using Haida Nation v British Columbia's vision of the duty to consult as existing along - side the negotiation process (aiming at a more fulsome settlement of aboriginal rights claims), this paper first provides an overview of the duty to consult and the state of the law.

Rather than further study, and citing the existence of at least 49 reports and inquiries into the issue as justification for its position, the government has funded initiatives to «reduce violence against aboriginal women and girls» over the next five years.

There was no need for the Court to engage in a detailed analysis of the content of the aboriginal right in issue in Sparrow, since there was little debate over whether an «aboriginal right to fish for food and ceremonial purposes» had existed at some point in time.

«There are two big issues the government is going to have to issue guidance on and I suspect it's quite likely that guidance will at some point be debated in the courts,» says Martin Ignasiak, a partner with the environment, regulatory, and aboriginal group at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Calgary.

«You have to look at aboriginal issues as you would any other legal or practical risk issue,» says Isaac.

The calls to action further recommend a variety of changes to the civil and criminal justice systems aimed at reducing barriers to holding the government to account for historical wrongs to aboriginal peoples, ameliorating the significant issues for aboriginal people in Canada's criminal justice system — as offenders, as accused and as victims — and for the recognition and implementation of Aboriginal justice systems.