Canada's Supreme Court has heard arguments from the Federal Government and the Manitoba Métis Federation over whether or not Ottawa backed out of its promise 141 years ago to set aside over 5,000 square kilometers of land for 7,000 children of the Red River Metis.
CBC News, December 13th, 2011
On Tuesday, December 13th, 2011, Supreme Court judges listened to hours of arguments discussing whether the governments of Canada and Manitoba had kept their end of the deal with regards to land promised to the Metis in 1870. The land in question is deemed to be possibly worth billions of dollars. The Supreme Court will proceed with the case but there is no timeline.
Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press, Published in Saskatoon StarPhoenix December 14th, 2011.
CBC News posted on November 18th, 2011 that Labrador Innu leaders, along with Newfoundland Premier Kathy Dunderdale, recently signed the New Dawn agreement in the northern community of Natuashish. The deal corrects previous wrongs with the Upper Churchill hydroelectric project, built in the 1960's, and paves the way for a second phase in which the Innu will receive 5% of the Muskrat Falls profits.
The British Columbia government and the Taku River Tlingit First Nation have signed a land use agreement covering a vast area of the province's northwest that will protect some parts and open up others for resource development. Premier Christy Clark said the deal follows years of litigation over a mine in the area, which the province ended up winning in the Supreme Court of Canada. Band spokesman John Ward said the agreement will protect the land and provide the means for band members to prosper in their own traditional territory.
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