Double Identities: Aboriginal Policy Agencies in Ontario and British Columbia

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Malloy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
Policy Communities

This article argues that provincial government units for Aboriginal affairs in Ontario and British Columbia have ''double identities'' stemming from contradictory mandates anchored in two different policy communities. Aboriginal policy agencies act as Crown negotiators with Aboriginal nations over land claims and self-government, but are also responsible for co-ordinating government policies affecting Aboriginals. Consequently, they interact with two different policy communities. One involves economic and resource ministries, which engage in a pressure pluralist relationship with Aboriginal groups. The second involves social policy ministries who engage in more clientele pluralist relationships with Aboriginals. Consequently, Aboriginal policy agencies display different identities and play different and sometimes contradictory roles. These ''double identities'' illustrate the complexity and contradictions of provincial-Aboriginal relations in Canada.

Negotiating Aboriginal Self-Government Agreements in Canada: An Analysis of the Inuvialuit Experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Alcantara ◽  
Adrienne Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Aboriginal Groups

AbstractIn 1973, the federal government of Canada invited Aboriginal groups to enter into comprehensive land claims negotiations to settle outstanding claims not addressed by historical treaties. After eight years of negotiations, the Inuvialuit became the second group in Canada to sign a modern treaty, doing so in 1984. Missing from that agreement, however, was a self-government chapter, which was not open to negotiation at that time. In 1996, the Inuvialuit initiated self-government negotiations with the Crown but have yet to conclude an agreement despite increased institutional capacity. What explains this puzzle? Drawing upon the existing literature on land claims negotiations, Aboriginal self-government and historical institutionalism, we analyze a variety of primary and secondary sources to argue that a number of institutional and non-institutional factors have prevented the Inuvialuit from successfully completing self-government negotiations with the Crown.

NEGLIGENCE: CANADA REMAKES THE ANNS TEST

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G.A. Pitel
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Syndicated Loans ◽  
Interest Payments

Mary Cooper was one of thousands of investors who advanced funds to Eron Mortgage Corporation, a licensed British Columbia mortgage broker specialising in large syndicated loans. When Eron went out of business it owed the investors over $180 million more than it was able to pay. Unable to recover from Eron, the investors turned their attention to Robert Hobart, the statutory official in charge of regulating mortgage brokers. The investors alleged that Eron had used their money for unauthorised purposes such as funding interest payments on non-performing mortgages. They further alleged that Hobart had been aware of these problems, all serious violations of statute, but that he had delayed in suspending Eron’s licence and had failed to notify investors that he was investigating Eron. Cooper therefore sought to bring a class action on behalf of the investors against Hobart and the provincial government.

Reaching Just Settlements: Land Claims in British Columbia

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
J. R. Miller ◽  
Frank Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims

scholarly journals Role of the institutions of provincial government in resolving social problems of the population of the Belarusian provinces (1861–1914)

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-317
Author(s):  
N. S. Motorova
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Xix Century

The article describes the structure and powers of the provincial government in the implementation of the main directions of state social policy. It was noted that on theterritoryofBelarusthey played a major role in solving the social problems of the population due to the lack of zemstvos. The outdated legal framework and the lack of a clear division of functions hampered their effectiveness.In the mid 1880s regulatory committees were established in the structure of the provincial institutions. On the territory of the Belarusian provinces they played an important role in the implementation of social policy, as they controlled the financing of the rural­medical part and partly public charity. However, the experience of the activities of the regulatory committees was unsatisfactory. In this regard, at the end of the XIX century the Interior Ministry proposed to eliminate them, as well as to abolish the provincial food commissions and departments of public charity. It was planned to transfer their functions to the zemstvos. This proposal was implemented partially, as a result of the introduction of the institutions of local economy in theVitebsk,MinskandMogilevprovinces in 1903.At the end of the XIX century in the structure of the provincial administration ofBelaruswere created the offices which were entrusted with the functions of monitoring compliance with the workers’ legislation, and then the insurance of workers. They were formed under the influence of new social demands. These offices corresponded to new social and economic conditions, in contrast to the provincial institutions, which managed public charity, national food and health care.

scholarly journals Supreme Court of Canada Cases Strengthen Argument for Municipal Obligation to Discharge Duty to Consult: Time to Put Neskonlith to Rest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela D’Elia Decembrini ◽  
Shin Imai
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
The City ◽  
Court Of Appeal

Can municipalities infringe Aboriginal or treaty rights without consulting the affected Indigenous group? In Neskonlith Indian Band v. Salmon Arm (City), the British Columbia Court of Appeal answered this question in the affirmative, finding that the city of Salmon Arm did not need to consult the Neskonlith First Nation about impacts from the construction of a shopping mall. In what was technically obiter dicta, the Court permitted the municipal project to proceed, and told the First Nation that its only recourse was to complain to the provincial government in a separate proceeding.

Land claims process and its potential impact on wood supply

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Lee ◽  
Phil Symington
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Potential Impact

The settlement of Land Claims in British Columbia could entail the negotiation of forestry interests in many areas of the province. This paper looks at Land Claims settlements in other jurisdictions and at the Nisga'a Agreement in Principle in B.C. to see how these examples have or will affect wood supply in their locations. Other factors, such as timber supply in general, are also considered.

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