Constitutional change is the only solution

In this essay, published by the Fraser Institute, law professor Bruce Pardy contends that Canada’s property-rights crisis stems from constitutionally entrenched special status for Aboriginal peoples. The resulting two classes of citizens violate the principle that justice should be blind to lineage or ancestry, he argues. Drawing on the universal human history of invasion, migration, and intermixture, Prof. Pardy maintains that over time all those born in a territory become native to it, rendering the notion of perpetual “original” peoples incoherent.