Supreme Court to hear Ontario case on treaty payments to Indigenous peoples

The Supreme Court of Canada said that it will hear a legal battle over Crown payments to Indigenous peoples who ceded a large swath of northern Ontario under two treaties in 1850

Canada’s top court says it will hear a legal battle over Crown payments to Indigenous peoples who ceded a large swath of northern Ontario under two treaties in 1850.

According to court documents, the annuity was raised to that amount in 1875 and has not changed since. As a result, it found the Crown had violated the treaties’ promise to share the resource-based revenues from the territory.

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