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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Keewatin v Ontario: Court of Appeal affirms Ontario’s unilateral ability to take up treaty lands

Indian Art2Jocelyn Kearney of Norton Rose, one of the authors of IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability: A Guidebook, writes about a recent key decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal that will have implications for the understanding of indigenous rights and the duty to consult in Canada. This development should be of interest to Equator Principles banks grappling with the meaning of Free Prior and Informed Consent, which is now part of the IFC Performance Standards requirements, which must be interpreted with consideration to the well developed legal concepts from which its meaning derives.