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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. leans into ruling on Aboriginal title but experts warn it's not clearcut

New Democrats may welcome this week's relief from months of political imbroglio. But it could spell longer-term uncertainty.

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VICTORIA — Attorney General Niki Sharma sounded like she’d been handed a lifeline this week after the Supreme Court of Canada let stand a lower court finding that Aboriginal title cannot be applied to private property in New Brunswick.

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The New Brunswick Court of Appeal had ruled that “a declaration of Aboriginal title over privately owned lands … would sound the death knell of reconciliation with the interests of non-Aboriginal Canadians.”

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