Tsilhqot’in case is not a template for resolving all First Nations land disputes
Pursuing a solution through the courts costs as much time and money as staying in the treaty process, experts say
Tue Jul 8, 2014
A Supreme Court of Canada decision that awarded aboriginal title to the Tsilhqot’in First Nation may not necessarily stop projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline.
Even aboriginal title can be trumped by senior governments for projects like highways or pipelines deemed to be in the greater public interest.
It may not even stop the New Prosperity mine, despite assertions to the contrary by Tsilhqot’in Chief Joe Alphonse.
But the case brought by Roger William against the B.C. government will require B.C.’s Forest Act to be rewritten and could have an impact on independent power projects involving First Nations in B.C., say experts in aboriginal and treaty law.
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