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The BC Treaty Referendum was a province-wide referendum on First Nations treaty rights in British Columbia, Canada. In the spring of 2002 the Premier Gordon Campbell and the British Columbia Liberal Party government sent out ballots to registered voters in the province. [1] 35.84% of ballots (763,480) were received by Elections BC by the ...
Even though only the Canadian federal government has the authority to enter into treaties with First Nations [4] in 1992 the newly created British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTP) and BC Treaty Process included the BC provincial government in the process by agreement among Canada, BC and the First Nations. [8]
the 2015 Doug Eyford report, commissioned by the federal Minister Bernard Valcourt, A New Direction: Advancing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights [13] and the 2016 Multilateral Engagement Process to Improve and Expedite Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia, prepared jointly by the Governments of Canada, BC, and the BC First Nations Summit. [14]
First Nations, Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia German website that uses visual representations to support Aboriginal Title and Rights. Government of British Columbia's First Nations A-Z Listing; Aboriginal Tourism Association of BC: government-sponsored website that promotes aboriginal culture in the context of the ...
"First Nation" refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. In the context used here, it refers only to band governments. For a list of peoples and ethnicities please see List of First Nations peoples in British Columbia (which includes extinct groups).
The section in the Charter that most directly relates to Aboriginal people is section 25. [10] It merely states that Charter rights do not diminish Aboriginal rights; it is therefore not as important as section 35. [11] The Charter forms Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982 while section 35 is placed in Part II. This placement in the ...
The 1969 White Paper (officially entitled Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy) was a policy paper proposal set forth by the Government of Canada related to First Nations. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs , Jean Chrétien , issued the paper in 1969.
Aboriginal title is a beneficial interest in land, although the Crown retains an underlying title. [5] The court set out a number of conditions which must be met in order for the Crown to extinguish Aboriginal title. [6] The court, 10 years later, in Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia, rejected all Crown arguments for Aboriginal title ...