“It established the constitutional framework for the negotiation of Indian treaties with the aboriginal inhabitants of large sections of Canada. As such, it has been labelled an “Indian Magna Carta” or an “Indian Bill of Rights.

The document is referred to in s25 of the CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982. This provision details that there is nothing in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to diminish the rights and freedoms that are recognized as those of aboriginal peoples by the Royal Proclamation.”

Maybe you disagree with the Constitution – lots of people do – but it is the law of the land.

JC

And to granny – I don’t know where you were educated, but Aboriginal Law is a foreign concept in the modern sense. The aboriginal peoples didn’t have “law” in the modern sense – and I have problems with “oral histories” of questionable veracity being placed on equal footing with the rational foundation of both Civil Code and Common Law.

I don’t pine for Britain – but I think that it is fairly clear that the Common Law system has been far more successful and beneficial to human society than any other.

Those blinded by their obedience to only British Common Law don’t understand or respect their own country.

Perhaps a citizenship test is in order, to sort out the real Canadians from those pining for Britain. There are ships leaving every day!