The reason or purpose underlying paragraph 12 [of the NRTA] was to secure to the Indians a supply of game and fish for their
support and
subsistence and clearly to permit
hunting, trapping and fishing for food... In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between
hunting for «
support and
subsistence», and
hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8
hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8
hunting rights to
hunting for direct consumption of the product of the
hunt.36