Tom Isaac has been quoted in the article titled “BC Insider: The Impact of the Cowichan Tribes Decision is Already Reverberating,” published by The Globe and Mail.
The article is the weekly British Columbia newsletter written by BC Editor, Wendy Cox, who writes: “It will be years before the Supreme Court of Canada decides whether a BC judge was right to declare that Aboriginal title takes precedence over the way land has been bought and sold in the province for more than a century. But the impact of the BC Supreme Court’s Cowichan Tribes decision is already reverberating in ways large and small.”
In the article, Tom is quoted as saying that: “The judge expressly states in the decision that, in BC, you cannot rely solely on your title as unquestionable evidence of ownership of land,” and goes on to note that the judge did not restrict this to the Cowichan title land.
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