“Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her contribution to the debate. I do believe we need to work toward reconciliation. Part of our job as elected officials is to reconcile competing interests. We have try to see both sides. My colleague seems to be severely downplaying the legal uncertainty resulting from the decision in the Cowichan case. While it does not resolve everything, it is true that the decision opens the door to negotiation. That is essentially what is being said. We understand that there is a legal process. However, I think we still need to consider the perspective of certain private property owners. Perhaps they have been influenced by certain political rhetoric and are more concerned than they need to be. Nevertheless, the key conclusion of the ruling is that aboriginal title can exist even on privately owned land. Does my colleague not agree that there may be some legitimate concern over this?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 113 wordsas the court ruled, it is not a zero-sum game, 1which means that we have real examples where both realities coexist: private property and the recognition of aboriginal rights and title.I want to point out, though, that we are talking about this as if it is something new.That is actually false.In my discourse, I pointed to the Haida Nation case in 2004, 2where the court determined the pre-existing sovereignty of indigenous peoples, with the assumed sovereignty of the Crown.3There is no threat.There is no case in history where indigenous people have gone after a private property interest.4They have just fought for their own recognition of aboriginal title.
