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Scott Franks

Scott Franks is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His LLM research investigated barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action in law schools. Franks continues to do research in the areas of Canadian Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal orders, constitutional law, legal professionalism and ethics, and Indigenous and interdisciplinary research methodologies. He also writes in criminal law and procedure, administrative law, and in other legal areas relevant to Indigenous-settler relations.

Does the Honour of the Crown Apply to Funding Agreements? Case Comment – Quebec (Attorney General) v. Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, 2024

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In Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that Quebec breached the honour of the Crown in its negotiation of a funding agreement with the government of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation, and awarded the First Nation damages equal to the amount of the funding deficit created by Quebec’s breach. This case …

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Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.