1. Aboriginals
... upheld Indian rights. The Jack case in 1985 saw the Court reject an Indian religious claim, apparently disbelieving the religious significance of the activity involved. In the same year in Dick, the court reaffirmed previous decisions denying hunting rights in nontreaty areas of Canada, in effect letting section 88 of the Indian Act extinguish aboriginal hunting rights. Counsel had relied purely ... protected commercial hunting rights. How do we sort out these inconsistencies? In some instances there has been a clear evolution of doctrine in the eight years between Nowegijick and Sparro...
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