Finance committee  My colleague John Borrows and I have spent a number of years working with other faculties to provide short courses as well as courses on research methodologies. John, for instance, has just finished four short courses in Ontario and Quebec. We spend a lot of time supporting other

Finance committee  We're at a really exciting time in Canada with the TRC recommendations and the missing and murdered indigenous women's inquiry. Recently the Federation of Law Societies of Canada asked a question about what a competent lawyer needs to know today about indigenous law, because the

Finance committee  When we think about how Canada governs itself, how the provinces govern themselves, how powers are distributed and people act on those authorities and systems of accountability, that governance and law is a central part of how we govern ourselves. Therefore, indigenous law for in

Finance committee  Thanks for that question. I have had students from the Tlicho First Nation and Decho First Nation in the city, amazing people to work with in my experience. The starting place for us in working with indigenous law is that law from our society is central to who we are as peoples,