A Mi’kmaw legal scholar says New Brunswick’s attempt to get a court to throw out sections of an Aboriginal title claim is just another example of Premier Blaine Higgs’s fear-mongering and “deeply racist attitude towards First Nations.”
Six Wolastoqey First Nations have asserted Aboriginal title over about half of New Brunswick, and the government is asking the courts to strike out several sections of the claim. Higgs says he is trying to protect smaller property owners within the title claim area.
But Higgs is misrepresenting the law concerning Aboriginal title, Pamela Palmater, a lawyer, professor and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation, said
