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Originally Posted by Flacker
Title to the land does not usually include mineral rights.
The fact that the RCMP are attempting to remove an illegal road block, should be an indication that the blockade is in fact illegal.
Should Joe Public be allowed to disrupt commerce because he suspects that the environment isn't being protected?
I would argue that better results would have been had for all had they used legal means to express their concerns.
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Aboriginal title to land is a different matter. It can't be sold or exchanged to other hands. I'm not an expert on this, but surely the aboriginal title goes further than having control of the land until the feds decide they want to mine on it.
I'd be very interested to see the court decision that allowed resource extraction of any kind on unceeded reserve land...assuming this is in fact unceeded reserve and. If this court decision does exist, it's clearly outside basic agreements between aboriginal peoples and the government. The aboriginal right to land is based on the idea that it needs to be preserved through generations. The aboriginals, themselves, do not have an unfettered right to mine on it.