The federal government has invested more than $1 billion to expand Indigenous participation in Atlantic fisheries. But buying commercial access is not the same as implementing treaty rights. Joshua W.J. Brown argues Ottawa continues to conflate economic inclusion with constitutional obligations.
Buying access is not the same as implementing treaty rights
Canada has helped purchase access to fisheries from which Indigenous peoples were historically excluded. It has not thereby purchased, created, or exhausted the treaty right. Until policy is built aro...
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