nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/3ce835f38446e457 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240328s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/3ce835f38446e457 doi eng 342 23 Newman, Dwight Author aut A Supremely Complex Decision - The Supreme Court of Canada’s Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin Decision on Indigenous Governments and Canada’s Charter of Rights Newman, Dwight Verfassungsblog 2024-03-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On March 28, 2024, a majority decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation held that Canada’s constitutional bill of rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“the Charter”), applied against an Indigenous government’s residency requirements for election to the government’s Council.  However, the majority also held that a section of the Charter that offers some protective effect for Indigenous governments would protect this residency requirement from a challenge under the Charter. The case reaches significant determinations but with some messy splits amongst the seven justices who sat on the case. CC BY-SA 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-supremely-complex-decision/ raw object