Gendering the Duty to Consult: How Section 35 and the Duty to Consult Are Failing Aboriginal Women: Final Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jula Hughes
Elizabeth Blaney
Roy Stewart
Description
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.