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Notes

¹This paper was originally given as a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade on February 10, 1998. The author wishes to thank The Citizens’ Voice on Native Claims, PO Box 48478, Bentall Centre, Vancouver V7X 1A2, who sponsored the talk.

²Globe and Mail, December 16, 1997, p. A27.

³Vancouver Sun , December 13, 1993, p. A8.

⁴S. Brad Armstrong, "Who Will Govern British Columbia?" self-published, Vancouver, Sept. 16, 1993.

⁵To order a new trial in a civil case is strange in itself. Usually the court may order a new trial only in criminal cases. In a civil case, if the appellant doesn’t make his case, as happened in this case, an appellate court would normally dismiss the appeal. But not here.

⁶BC Report, January 5, 1998, p. 6.

⁷Martyn Brown, Victoria Times Colonist, December 27, 1997.

⁸R. v. St. Catherines Milling and Lumber Company (1886) S.C.R. 577, at 649.

⁹Vancouver Sun, December 20, 1997, p. A21.

¹⁰Vancouver Sun, February 2, 1998, p. A1.

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