Jumping the Turnstile: Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

University of Alberta

A guest lecture on the 2024 SCC "Dickson v VGFN" decision, presented by Professor Margot Young (UBC).

Law Centre

The Centre for Constitutional Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Margot Young from the Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC) to discuss the 2024 SCC Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Decision.This event will be held at 12:00PM in room 231 of the Law Centre.Lecture Description: There are several important narratives to be pulled from the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. The decision is long and complex, spanning three separate judgments. This lecture looks at a few particular aspects: the assessment across each judgment of the applicability of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the Vuntut Gwitchin government and the elaborations of the import of section 25 of the Charter that follow findings that the Charter applies. The lecture's argument teases out the centrality assigned to liberal understandings of constitutional relations, of government, and of the rights the Charter protects. Caution issues about judicial resort to the notion of "Indigenous difference" as reference point for the scope of section 25. The lecture concludes that a majority of the judges sidestep engagement with the critical recasting of constitutional relations and justice that decolonization demands.

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