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Old 06-30-2009, 08:30 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by Delgar View Post
Wow, we have few aboriginal law guys in our office and I've never heard of this.

Good find... but......

There is no way this has ever been done.

Also, just because its been enacted, doesn't make it 'legal', in that, as soon as anyone tried the law would be subject to a constitutional challenge.

Could you imagine what would happen if this was attempted? Oka would look like a picnic in comparison.
The Feds are involved in the ring road deal.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technol...747/story.html

And this one certainly lays out how they are directly involved.

http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+H...-+May+2009.htm


But it is certainly not the "usual" expropriation most of us are familiar with; otherwise it would have been done long ago.
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