Recognition and Erasure of Indigenous Oceanic Rights and Title
Canada continues to treat the ocean as void of Indigenous presence or rights, using the fiction of “mare nullius” to justify offshore development without needed Indigenous consent. In this Brief, Michaela McGuire and Rosanna Carver discuss the impacts of resource development infrastructure in the ocean and the Crown’s limited interpretation of Indigenous oceanic rights and title.
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