December 1, 2000

This Land Is Whose Land?

On the surface, Victor Buffalo v. The Queen is a dispute over mismanaged oil money—$1.38 billion of it, to be exact. But the deeper questions raised by the case could spark a full-on legal war across Canada, topping $190 billion in claims and changing the face of Canadian government/aboriginal relations forever I’m sitting in a Calgary courtroom looking on with disbelief at what is happening.... [More >>]