I'll continue the presentation, if you don't mind.
I will now turn to the notion of moderate livelihood.
In 1993, in a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Van der Peet, Judge Taggart indicated that, in his view, regardless of its origins, the concept of "moderate livelihood" did not provide an appropriate or practical basis for determining the scope and nature of aboriginal rights or the extent of aboriginal priority for the exercise of those rights. He added that the notion of what constituted a moderate livelihood was inherently subjective. In his view, even if it could be determined how and, more importantly, by whom such a fluid standard could be defined, it would not advance the issue of aboriginal rights.
In the same...