Supreme Court of Canada to hear appeal in British Columbia mineral claims case

British Columbia’s Attorney General said her government may still bring forward legislation to amend key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, even as the Supreme Court of Canada will hear the province’s appeal of a landmark ruling. Niki Sharma, who is also B.C.’s deputy premier, says her government is very pleased that Canada’s highest court will hear British Columbia’s appeal of a ruling that found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are “inconsistent.” The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in Decemb…