Pacific Booker Minerals Inc V.BKM

RE:Canadian Supreme Court case Ruling

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Thanks Dano, Here is part of the article with legal opinions by the Judges

https://theprovince.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn-palmer-consultation-gives-first-nations-right-to-a-fair-process-not-a-veto-court-says/wcm/a583ac5c-d23b-404a-b77c-219681db2a6e

“Reconciliation does not dictate any particular substantive outcome,” they wrote in a unanimous decision back in February. “Were it otherwise, Indigenous peoples would effectively have a veto over projects such as this one. The law is clear that no such veto exists.”

As for the UN Declaration’s promise of “free, prior and informed consent” for First Nations, the court held: “Canada expressed its desire to seek to secure free, prior, and informed consent at the start of the re-initiated consultation process. That being said, Canada was under no obligation to obtain consent prior to approving the project. That would, again, amount to giving Indigenous groups a veto.”