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Missionaries of the northwestern regions of Canada also sent their opinions to the government. Most commonly they stated their arguments based on three fields: health, morality and economics. [ 15 ] On the issue of health, the missionaries worried about the spread of disease amongst the large groups that gathered for potlatches, and critiqued ...
St. Joseph's Mission was a Catholic mission established near Williams Lake, British Columbia in 1867. The mission was operated by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.It is primarily known for the notorious [2] St. Joseph's Indian Residential School located on the property, a part of the Canadian Indian residential school system that operated on the Mission from 1891 to 1981.
In sentencing, when an individual is found guilty of a criminal offence, a Canadian judge must consider the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code as well as relevant Canadian sentencing jurisprudence related to Indigenous Canadians. [3] This distinction is a result of disproportionate sentencing of Indigenous peoples in Canada. [4]
Subsequently, they have called upon the Canadian federal government to, among other interventions, commit to ratifying the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). [30] UNDRIP articles 5 and 40 both advocate for Indigenous nations to revitalize and employ traditional legal structures for their peoples.
Canadian Aboriginal law is the area of law related to the Canadian government's relationship with the Indigenous peoples. Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 gives the federal parliament exclusive power to legislate in matters related to Aboriginals, which includes groups governed by the Indian Act , different Numbered Treaties and ...
In order to receive funding from the Canadian Government for the OMI mission to the Dene people, the area they served needed to be under treaty. [14] From 1909 to 1921, Oblate Gabriel-Joseph-Elie Breynat, Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie and titular Bishop, [15] lobbied and negotiated so that the Dene would have such a treaty but reception from the Canadian government was lukewarm.
The Program—which scholars have called Canada's first "comprehensive national policing strategy for its Aboriginal peoples" [15] —was designed to allow First Nations and Inuit communities to establish their own police forces that met the provincial standards for non-Indigenous police services, or establish their own RCMP detachment staffed ...
Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs) [1999] 2 S.C.R. 203, is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court expanded the scope of applicable grounds upon which a section 15(1) Charter claim can be based.