Legal rights should not depend on lineage—Indigenous or otherwise

Legal rights should not depend on lineage—Indigenous or otherwise

From the Fraser Institute By Bruce Pardy Once upon a time, legal rights depended on who your parents were. The ruler was the son of the ruler before him. If your parents were serfs, you were a serf, too. Lineage was destiny. A judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court recently found that the Cowichan First Nation holds Aboriginal title over 800 acres of government land in Richmond, B.C. But that’s not all. Wherever Aboriginal title is found to…