04 Jan International rights tribunal to probe ownership of native land: The case involves 300,000 hectares of land on the east coast of Vancouver Island (The Globe and Mail)
A Vancouver Island native group has won a ruling that will force the Canadian government to defend its domestic human rights record at an international tribunal later this year. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has approved the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group’s petition to hear the case against Canada. The native group contends that their human rights were violated by the privatization of their traditional territory – roughly 300,000 hectares of land on the east coast of Vancouver Island that was taken in the 1800s and converted to private property… go to article