Translation of "aboriginal land claim " (English → French) :

Aboriginal land claim [ Native land claim ]

Aboriginal land claims liaison officer [ Native land claims liaison officer ]

(2) The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may take from the Commissioner the administration and control of any interest in oil and gas in the adjoining area for the purpose of the settlement of an aboriginal land claim or the implementation of an aboriginal land claim agreement and transfer the administration of that interest to a federal minister or a federal agent corporation.

I quote from the financial statements of the Government of Canada, 1998-99, section 15(3)(iii), where it talks about aboriginal and comprehensive land claims: “Aboriginal claims with specific amounts totalling approximately $200,000 million”—that is $200 billion—“and comprehensive aboriginal land claims amounting to $742 million are known to the government.

Some suggest Douglas ran out of funds and was unable to obtain additional resources from the British government (Frank Cassidy, “Aboriginal Land Claims in British Columbia,” in Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: A Regional Perspective, ed. Ken Coates, Copp Clark Pitman, Toronto, 1992, p. 13), while another view is that Douglas later subscribed to a system that anticipated the assimilation of Indians and the abandonment of traditional communities for homesteads (Paul Tennant, Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849–1989, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1990, pp. 36–7).

If the species, its residences or any other part of its critical habitat is found on land that is subject to an aboriginal land claims agreement, the permit must be issued or amended, or the agreement must be made or amended, in accordance with any applicable provisions of the aboriginal land claims agreement”.