Various pictures from the Youth Council

The NBAPC set out with a few clear mandates in mind with regards to this decision:

First, the NBAPC wanted to research and clearly identify any Métis settlement that may or may have existed in New Brunswick. The NBAPC is doing this through extensive historical, geographical and genealogical research and through ethnographical studies available to them. As well, demographic and statistical data will also be analyzed.

Second, the NBAPC wanted to inform the members of the NBAPC, as well as, the general public on this decision. (A way of doing this dissemination of information was by this website)

Third, the NBAPC wants to ensure service and programs to the non-territorial Métis that reside in New Brunswick.

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.

On the morning of October 22, 1993, Steve Powley and his son Roddy went hunting. At about 9 a.m., they shot and killed a bull moose near the Old Goulais Bay Road in Ontario. After shooting the moose Steve and Roddy Powley transported it to their residence in Sault Ste. Marie. Neither of them had a valid Card, a valid hunting license to hunt moose, nor a validation tag issued by the Minister of Natural Resources......

A Table of Contents of the Court's written description of the Powley Test parts

Related Links

 

Mission Statement

Objectives of the Aboriginal Fishery Strategy

Publication on the Eastern White Cedar