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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Constitution Act, 1982, and the jurisprudence recognize that the "existing treaty and Aboriginal rights" of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada include certain rights of a collective nature.
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Generally speaking, most Canadian indigenous organisations consider aboriginal rights to be an inherent part of original occupation of the land upon which a western political zone called Canada has been placed. As such, all aboriginal rights stem ... Home Politics & Society Aboriginal Rights Canadian Aboriginal Peoples...
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Judicial Conceptions of Tradition in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law Export ... by: Connolly, Anthony ... The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 1. (April 2006), pp. 27-44.
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Human Rights Committee said that by not implementing the recommendations of the 1996 royal commission on aboriginal peoples, the Canadian government is not complying with the international covenant on civil and political rights, one of the UN's key human-rights treaties.
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This decision, certainly the most important Aboriginal rights case since Sparrow, defies any brief annotation ... The Court held that, on the facts in this case and the lack of an evidentiary basis for the alleged discrimination, there was no requirement based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to do so.
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If Treaty rights were not always secure under Canadian law, Aboriginal rights were virtually non-existent. They could be regulated by any level of government: R. v. Kruger and Manuel. Until 1982, there was no recourse and, until 1990, no one knew what recourse there was: Sparrow v. The Queen.
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But more fundamentally, these are constitutional rights: why should the government be asking for permission to ignore them, under the pretense that this is a "legally-binding" referendum. ... Aboriginal Rights Coalition of BC...
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