The respondents, who are members of a Métis community near Sault Ste. Marie, were acquitted of unlawfully hunting a moose without a hunting license and with knowingly possessing game hunted in contravention of ss. 46 and 47(1) of Ontario's Game and Fish Act. The trial judge found that the members of the Métis community in and around Sault Ste. Marie have, under s. 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, an Aboriginal right to hunt for food that was infringed without justification by the Ontario hunting legislation. The Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal upheld the acquittals.

The Supreme Court of Canada Decision. Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-status Indians.