Daniels v. Canada: what way forward?

More than 40 years later not much has changed. The situation of some 700,000 Métis and non-status Indians remains, sadly, the same, and the 'federal initiatives' then called for are still non-existent.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s recent (April 14) decision in the Daniels case eroded Canada’s position in its decades-spanning war with the provinces, with the Court declaring that MNSI are in federal jurisdiction, write Dwight Dorey and Joseph Magnet. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DWIGHT DOREY, JOSEPH MAGNET

June 20, 2016

“The Métis and non-status Indian people, lacking even the protection of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, are far more exposed to discrimination and other social disabilities. It is true today that in the absence of federal initiative in thi...

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