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Law in public discourse

December 2025
Law in public discourse Reconciliation

No, Indigenous people are not coming for your privately owned land

Politicians, lawyers and pundits have been stoking fears among property owners that Indigenous people are coming to take their land. The Cowichan decision says nothing of the kind — and the people invoking it know that.

February 2020
Law in public discourse

Stop using the 'rule of law' as a weapon against Indigenous peoples

The invocations of the rule of law are not innocent pleas to neutrality and lawfulness — they are self-serving calls to once again disenfranchise Indigenous people so that settlers won't have to be inconvenienced.

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Corey Shefman

Litigation lawyer for Indigenous peoples, governments, and organizations. I write about how Canadian law works, how it doesn't work, and how it should work.

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