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Legal Systems in Canada (McNeil,2025) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Tsilhqot’in Nation case
      - Oral law documentation
      - The Indigenous Languages Act in 2019
  - - - Inuit Law
      - Métis Law
      - First Nations Law
- - - - Section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867
    - - Delegated by the Parliament of Canada
- - - - Decolonize Canada
  - - - Pastion v. Dene Tha’ First Nation
        
        Indigenous legal traditions are among Canada’s legal traditions
      - Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. v. Huson
        
        Do not become Canadian domestic law until it is recognized
  - - - Right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs.
    - - e.g., 2019 Child and Family Services Act
  - - - Recognizes and affirms
        existing Aboriginal and treaty rights
- - - - Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows
        
        The Indigenous law is in the jural fabric of Canada
      - Courts acknowledged Indigenous marriage and adoption in 1867
  - - - Some Canadian judges reluctant to acknowledge Indigenous law