Regina v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, ex parte Indian Association of Alberta and Others

Abstract

States — British Commonwealth — Canada — Independence of Canada — Separation of the Crown in Canada from the Crown in the United Kingdom — Obligations of the Crown to the Indian peoples of Canada — Whether obligations of the United Kingdom Government or the Government of Canada — British North America Acts 1867 and 1930 — Statute of Westminster 1931

State succession — Treaties — Canada — Succession of Crown in right of Canada to treaty obligations of Crown in right of the United Kingdom — Whether a matter of international law or constitutional law — Date at which succession took place

Treaties — Parties — Agreements between Crown and Indian tribes in Canada — Agreements concluded during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — Whether agreements between States — Whether treaties in international law — The law of England