AN APPEAL COURT justice has stopped short of granting an area First
Nations request to revisit six forest licence renewals made by the
provincial government on its traditional territory.

But
Madam Justice Kathryn Neilson did find that while the province had a
legal duty to consult and accommodate the Gitanyow it failed to fulfill
its constitutional duty to do so adequately. And, in the process of
replacing those six licences, the honour of the Crown was not upheld,
she found.

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