Sentences with phrase «with aboriginal issues»
He adds: «There's a certain degree of risk in dealing with aboriginal issues.
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«I suspect that aboriginal communities would seek [an ownership stake and representation] along with other things to give them confidence that, in the privatized Hydro One world, past issues and future developments would be dealt with in a way that are sensitive, respectful and accommodating of their rights and interests.»
The issue centres on the team's logo, Chief Wahoo, a red - skinned cartoon head with a toothy grin and a feathered headband considered to be a caricature of an aboriginal man, combined with the name Indians.
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.
The Indian Act is not the only legislation specific to aboriginal people — the First Nations Land Management Act (SC 1999) provides a framework for First Nations to develop regimes for resource development, succession, and other important issues; the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (SC 2005) prescribes certain reporting requirements with respect to real property taxation; and the recently passed Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act (SC 2013) seeks to provide protections to parties living on reserves in the context of family breakdown.
When it comes to addressing aboriginal justice issues, yesterday's federal budget largely upholds the status quo, leaving some lawyers with mixed feelings.
Manitoba's first aboriginal judge, Sinclair is one of the most important faces of aboriginal issues in Canada, and his work with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in the past year has been extremely progressive.
He is also co-counsel with lead responsibility for specific aboriginal issues in a hearing before the Clean Environment Commission of Manitoba with respect to a major transmission line.
In 2017, we look forward to working on climate change issues that intersect with aboriginal rights and title.
More importantly, the issue is how Aboriginals perceive and deal with concepts of «guilt,» which generally differs from the way Western European cultures did, hence the culture clash.
Admittedly, progress is slow in resolving aboriginal claims, but the reality is that the courts are the only institution with the respect necessary to decide the major issues in aboriginal rights and title claims.
«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.
In particular, Closner has worked on a few projects aiming to develop joint venture agreements with aboriginal entities in America that primarily involved working with various financial institutions to help customers with financing issues, in order to get a project under way.
Our services include the provision of interpretive advice, opinions and legal representation in connection with issues such as aboriginal law and litigation, Charter rights and federal and provincial jurisdictional disputes.
But while empowering aboriginal communities to deal with their own justice issues is important, she says, it's not the end - all answer for sure.
As it stands, we now have Aboriginals entering prisons with no prior mental health issues or drug addictions but leaving with mental health issues, drug addictions and the stigma of being in prison, no matter how small the offence.