[ql06] RE: [ql06] PUBLIC: Historic SCC court win for Métis
- From: "Ken Campbell" <2kc16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 05:40:45 -0500
I meant to post this quite some time ago, but it somehow slipped through
the cracks in my brains.
(Write about it on QL06 News, they will come to you...)
I think it will be fascinating to hear her talk about the actual process
more than the decision -- how she connected to it, the uncertainty of
getting a case there, the anxiety, how she financed her time, things
like that.
Ken.
--
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed
by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by
adults to children, and by children to adults.
-- Thomas Szasz
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Assistant Dean Ann Tierney wrote:
Dear First Year Students and First Year Small Section
teachers,
Thank you for your participation in the fall term FYRP
plenary sessions. We will have 2 winter term plenary
sessions as well. I am pleased to advise that the first
one will be on January 19 from 1:00 to 2:30 when we will
have Jean Teillet visit the law school. Ms Teillet was
counsel in the recent SCC case involving Métis rights
(Powley). She will speak about her experiences in law
school and the profession as well as talk about
Aboriginal rights, Métis issues and the Powley case.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Campbell -- LAW'06
>Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:51 AM
>To: ql06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ql06] PUBLIC: Historic SCC court win for Métis
>
>
>>From article:
>
> The 9-0 ruling recognizes for the first time that
> the term "Métis" in section 35 of the Constitution
> refers to a "distinctive rights-bearing people" who
> deserve the same recognition as Canada's Inuit and
> Indian peoples.
>
>S.35 (Constitution Act, 1982):
>
> (1) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of
> the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby
> recognized and affirmed.
>
> (2) In this Act, "aboriginal peoples of Canada"
> includes the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples
> of Canada.
>
>Ken.
>
>--
>Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
> -- R.W. Emerson
>
>
>
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>Historic court win for Métis
>Can claim aboriginal right to hunt for food
>9-0 Supreme Court ruling upholds acquittal
>
>TONDA MACCHARLES
>OTTAWA BUREAU
>TORONTO STAR
>September 20 2003
>
>
>OTTAWA -— In a historic decision for the nearly 300,000
>Canadians who call themselves Métis, the Supreme Court of
>Canada ruled yesterday Métis people can claim an aboriginal
>right to hunt for food under the 1982 Constitution.
>
>Dozens of Métis activists and advocates cried for joy and
>hugged each other in the court's marbled lobby at the news
>the judges unanimously had upheld the acquittal of two
>Sault Ste. Marie men who hunted deer out of season.
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