1. Aboriginals
In Sheldon v Ramsay in 1852 an Ontario Court held that the Six Nations Indians had no legal rights to their reserve lands, because the common law could not be "part savage and part civilized." ... At issue were treaty protected hunting rights, on the one hand, and the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a federal statute, on the other. ... They agreed with the decision in the court below which enforced the federal legislation. ... Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice on Indian constitutional issues, was asked what rights he thought were protected by sec...
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