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Citizenship and Aboriginal Governance: The Royal Commission’s Vision for the Future

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Aboriginal people are both Canadian citizens and citizens of their particular nations. Thus they hold a form of dual citizenship, which permits them to maintain loyalty to their nation and to Canada as a whole.

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Justice Rene Dussault

René Dussault, Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal, received his law degree from Laval University and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A former Quebec Deputy Minister of Justice, he taught at the National School of Public Administration in Montreal and was the first incumbent of the Bora Laskin Chair in Public Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University and from Dalhousie University. From 1991 to 1996 he co-chaired the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.