Indigenous peoples' land and resource rights : Droit aux terres et aux ressources des peuples autochtones

Accordingly, the Supreme Court in both the Delgamuukw ruling and the Marshall decision called for negotiations between the First Nation and the respective government to determine the details of such rights within the existing laws and regulations of Canada and those found in province or territory. [...] The Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline Project and Its Inquiry The construction of a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay on the shores of arctic Alaska to the delta of the Mackenzie River and then up the Mackenzie River valley to Zama, the northern terminal of the national gas pipeline system in Alberta, was one of the grand industrial projects of the 20th century. [...] In an attempt to answer this question the activities of the ICG and the major subsidiaries of the IRC, the Inuvialuit Development Corporation (IDC), the Inuvialuit Petroleum Corporation (IPC), the Inuvialuit Investment Corporation (IIC), are described in the three subsections that follow. [...] The Inuvialuit Investment Corporation: According to the 2000 Annual Report of the ICG, the Inuvialuit Investment Corporation (IIC) “was established to receive the bulk of the financial compensation that came from the IFA. [...] In the case of the Inuvialuit, a just settlement of land claims has provided the capital for entrepreneurship and business development and contributed to the rebuilding of the Inuvialuit ‘Nation’ by preserving the Inuvialuit culture, identity and values within a changing northern society.