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Bennett Jones LLP
On April 16, 2024, the Canadian Government released the 2024 federal budget, including details on the much-anticipated federal Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program (ILG Program).
McMillan LLP
April 14 2024 British Columbia's Premier David Eby and Minister Murray Rankin signed an agreement to "recognize and affirm" that the Haida Nation holds Aboriginal title over the entirety of Haida Gwaii...
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Beginning on May 6, 2024, an authorization (ATI) from the Quebec ministry responsible for mines, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF)...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
On April 16, 2024 the Government of Canada tabled Budget 2024: Fairness to Every Generation. In Chapter 6 of its Budget 2024 entitled "A Fair Future for Indigenous Peoples"...
Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Last week's 2024 Federal Budget confirmed the creation of a Federal Indigenous Loan Guarantee program.
Lawson Lundell LLP
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has updated its Business Incentive Policy (BIP). The BIP is a way for the GWNT to recognize and account for higher costs associated with operating businesses.
Fasken
As noted in previous bulletins, we continue to monitor announcements of Indigenous equity investments in energy and related infrastructure projects in Canada.
Cassels
On April 14, 2024, barely two weeks following its public release, the province of British Columbia (Province) announced an agreement (Agreement) had been signed by the Province and the Council...
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Federal budget 2024 (Budget 2024) sheds a bit more light on what the federal government has planned for the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program...
Fasken
The Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision Shot Both Sides v. Canada, 2024 SCC 12 provides clarity on the applicability of limitation periods to matters involving historical treaty breaches.
Gowling WLG
It is evident that the Liberal government sees Budget 2024 as an opportunity to restore "fairness for every generation." Overall, the budget includes $52.9 billion in new spending plans in the next five years...
Torys LLP
The 2024 federal budget released yesterday includes an emphasis on "getting major projects done" with the announcement of several new measures intended to improve federal regulatory and permitting processes.
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
In Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, 2024 SCC 10, the Supreme Court of Canada recently settled important questions regarding the interplay between the collective rights...
Fasken
On March 22, 2024, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") initiated public consultations on the co-development of an Indigenous Broadcasting Policy.
Cassels
Two decades ago this year, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its landmark decision in Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests).
MLT Aikins LLP
The Blood Tribe has long maintained that it did not receive the full area of reserve land that it was promised in Treaty No. 7 and has been in dispute over its Treaty Land Entitlement ("TLE")...
Fasken (French)
Le 22 mars 2024, le Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (« CRTC ») a lancé une consultation publique sur l'élaboration conjointe d'une politique en matière de radiodiffusion autochtone.
MLT Aikins LLP
Charter applies to Nation but Section 25 gives collective rights primacy over individual rights.
Fasken
As we have commented on in previous bulletins, Indigenous equity participation in energy and infrastructure projects in Canada is expected to increase.
MLT Aikins LLP
Impacting federally regulated employers, including First Nations and other entities within or associated with First Nations, the Canadian Labour Code (the Code) has been amended to require longer termination notice and a written benefit statement for individual employees.
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