Ottawa Liberals, BC NDP abandoned a key defence in First Nation land claims case
Both the British Columbia and federal governments chose not to advance a legal argument that Aboriginal title over disputed lands in Richmond, B.C., had been extinguished.
Both the British Columbia and federal governments chose not to advance a legal argument that Aboriginal title over disputed lands in Richmond, B.C., had been extinguished — a position that may have shaped the outcome of a recent B.C. Supreme Court decision.
The five-year-long case saw the Cowichan Tribe take the federal government, provincial government, and two other Indigenous tribes to court over who had legitimate ownership, or title, to hundreds of kilometres of privately owned land in the City of Richmond.
