Aboriginal Consultation, Environmental Assessment, and Regulatory Review in Canada

The Center provided funding that allowed the assistance of Jonathan Clark and Tracie Scott during early development of the manuscript and also submitted the manuscript to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. [...] The Supreme Court of Canada recognizes the law of Aboriginal consultation in its 2004 decision in Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), but the Court defines only a general framework of broad principle, leaving development of details by the courts to the future: This case is the first of its kind to reach this Court. [...] As this framework is applied, courts, in the age-old tradition of the common law, will be called on to fill in the details of the duty to consult and accommodate.1 xxv prologue As of the date of publication of this book, five judgments of the Su- preme Court of Canada define the national framework for the duty to consult and accommodate. [...] The book might also be of value to the thousands of people from all walks of life who today, and in the future, will engage in Aboriginal consultation during the course of project development in Canada. [...] Those who have a hard copy of the book, and who have access to the Internet from any point in the world, can go to the website of the University of Regina Press at and access source materials through the hyperlinks there.