Consult, Consent and Veto: International Norms and Canadian Treaties

• Main Author: Imai, Shin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Osgoode Digital Commons 2016
• Subjects: Aboriginal Title; Canada; Indian Reservations; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; International Law; Northwest Territories; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/olsrps/144; https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/context/olsrps/article/1143/viewcontent/uc.pdf

Large parts of Canada, from Ontario to parts of British Columbia and north to the Northwest Territories, are covered by the “numbered treaties”, signed between First Nations and the Crown between 1871 and 1929. These treaties provide for the creation of small reserves for the Indians, and the “surre...