Aboriginal

OKT lawyers have extensive experience in Aboriginal work dating back to the early 1970s. Our experience includes:

Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation, including Aboriginal titlelitigation
Comprehensive and specific land rights negotiations
Inherent Aboriginal government negotiations
Advice on development of indigenous governance, legal and territorial systems
Constitutional law including section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982
Injunction applications to stop developments on Aboriginal land
Participation in First Ministers’ conferences concerning constitutional change
Impact benefit agreement negotiations with resource developers and other industrial and commercial developers
Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
Past grievances negotiations with Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One Networks
Development of trust indentures for managing settlements of pas grievances with Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One Networks, and payments made under impact benefit agreements
Establishment of new reserves and additions to reserves
Advice regarding application of the Indian Act on reserves
Band membership issues
Band election codes
General legal advice to First Nation clients in areas including employment, labour, construction, housing on reserves, child welfare issues, personal injury claims
Administrative law issues for Aboriginal clients

Areas of Practice