Chapter 5B--CANADIAN ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AND MINERAL AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: RISKS AND RELATED STRATEGIES

摘要

I venture the conclusion that no area of Canadian law has been so transformed in such a short period of time as the law of Aboriginal rights. Rights that were undefined and barely recognized in 1973, and were in any case vulnerable to legislative and constitutional extinguishment, have in the short space of little more than 30 years become powerful, constitutionally protected rights.