The Marshall Decision

Who: Donald Marshall (a Mikmaq fisherman), Native and non-native fisherman, Supreme Court of Canada and Herb Dhaliwal (minister of Fisheries and ocean). Where: Burnt Church, Miramichi Bay Issue: Donald Marshall, a mikmaq fisherman took a case to the Supreme Court of Canada arguing that a treaty from 1760 gave him aboriginal fishing rights and he won the trail justifying three conviction he had on fishing with out a license, fishing off season and fishing with illegal …showed first 75 words of 659 total…

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