Gendering the Duty to Consult: How Section 35 and the Duty to Consult Are Failing Aboriginal Women: Final Paper

Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.

Author/Creator

Jula Hughes

Elizabeth Blaney

Roy Stewart

Contributor/Editor

Atlantic Research Centre, Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN)

Open Access

Yes

Primary Source

No

Publisher

Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN)