The Supreme Court has long been in the vanguard of expanding Indigenous rights. The top court has already ruled that Indigenous nations do not have an absolute veto over such decisions, a point it reinforced Thursday. Article Continued BelowThe dispute over the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort has been going on, in one form or another, since 1991. Indigenous leaders have treated the Ktunaxa ruling as a setback for aboriginal rights. Now, with last week’s ruling, the court had made it more difficult (although not impossible) for Indigenous appellants to try the freedom-of-religion gambit.

Source: thestar November 05, 2017 04:18 UTC