Case about portability of Indigenous hunting rights in Sask. headed back to trial – CBC

Aug 15, 2022

2 Ontario hunters were acquitted, then convicted, of charges in Sask.

Two Indigenous hunters from Ontario who were first acquitted — then later convicted — of hunting charges in Saskatchewan are headed back to trial after a recent decision from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

The case is about whether First Nations people from other provinces have the right to hunt and fish in Saskatchewan without provincial licences.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the two hunters from Six Nations hunted for food in Moose Mountain Provincial Park in October 2018 and were charged with unlawfully hunting.

They were acquitted in provincial court, but then convicted in Court of Queen’s Bench after the Crown appealed.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/indigenous-hunting-rights-portability-ontario-hunters-1.6552037