Reconciliation includes recognizing aboriginal land title, says lawyer – CBC
Izaak de Rijcke’s talk in Whitehorse attracts large turnout
Jun 10, 2015
Reconciliation is inseparable from recognition of aboriginal land title, says a law professor from Ontario who gave a lecture in Whitehorse Tuesday night.
More than 200 people turned out to hear Izaak de Rijcke’s talk on aboriginal title and existing property law regimes, including a ‘who’s who’ of prominent Yukoners including lawyers, chiefs, land claims negotiators and Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale.
De Rijcke practises real estate law in Ontario and has taught at Osgoode Hall law school.
De Rijcke said property law is complicated at any level, with many overlapping interests, but aboriginal title is the “unique product of the historic relationship between the Crown and people from different aboriginal groups.”
