Nova Scotia records should be released in unconquered people case: Appeal Court
lower court ruling in Alex Cameron’s favour that waived the
government’s privilege as it attempted to keep private internal
government communications related to his case.
Cameron was removed as government counsel in an Aboriginal rights
case in December 2016 after suggesting in a legal brief the Mi’kmaq were
a conquered people who were owed no duty of consultation.
The brief was part of the government’s defence when the Sipekne’katik
Band sought to overturn provincial approval of a plan by Alton Gas to
store natural gas in salt caverns near the Shubenacadie River.
Amid an outcry from the Mi’kmaq and others, the government withdrew the brief and disowned the argument.
The province has 30 days to appeal the latest ruling to the Supreme
Court of Canada, although Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters
Thursday no decision on an appeal has been made.