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A lawyer for the Wolastoqey Nation has told a judge New Brunswick's government could avoid"total chaos" if it stops neglecting its constitutional obligations and sorts out how a declaration of Aboriginal title would affect property owners.
"Declaration of Aboriginal title need not be declaration of total chaos," McNamara told the judge."This litigation will take a decade or longer, and the province can do this in an orderly way." The Wolastoqey are fighting to have the property owned by the province and big timber firms returned to them, and for government compensation for other parcels in the hands of everyday New Brunswickers, claiming the land they'd occupied for time immemorial was stolen from them and improperly granted to European settlers.
For example, she cited a celebrated case from 1999, when the City of Fredericton tried to expropriate an old rail right-of-way that crossed the property of the Hughes family.
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