Sec. 35 rights are not to be given to just anybody

Indigenous rights are for Indigenous Peoples.

Sec. 35 acknowledges Indigenous Peoples were here first, have rights that nobody can erase, and—this is where things get a bit fuzzy—what are those rights? But let’s skip right over that because courts across Canada are debating the innards of this box of rights, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

June 24, 2024

OTTAWA—Back in the older days of the 1980s, Indigenous leaders fought with the support of the United Nations to enshrine Indigenous rights into Canada’s Constitution as Sec. 35, the source of so many all-night debates by Indigenous Peoples. Some question if the very...

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