What is your take on the seriousness of aboriginal land titles? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The way that Canada’s Constitutional Law works pertaininh to the distribution of powers from the old British North America Act, section 92, the law pertaining to real estate is relegated to the provinces, and so any federal court decision on aboriginal property rights does not have to be acted upon or even recognized by any provincial government.
Meanwhile, the The federal law regulates Native status and administration as a federal matter.
Until the various provincial governments recognize aborigional property rights, it is pretty difficult for native interests to gain expansion, outside of the lands already specifically granted or reserved to them by previous acts of the Crown and by various treaties.
Compounding the problem is that most of the Band Councils are quite happy with the fact that all property on the reserve is communal, because it allows them to control people by denying them decent housing. Whenever the topic of individual property titles comes up, all hell breaks loose.