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Aboriginal land policy in Canada began as an Aboriginal initiative. In No Place for Fairness, David McNab - a long time advisor on land and treaty rights for both government and First Nations groups - looks at the Bear Island Indigenous rights case, initiated by the Teme-Augama Anishinabe, to explore why governments fail to deal effectively with Aboriginal land claims. The book, divided into two sections, includes a survey of the historical background of the Bear Island claim followed by a more personal series of reflections about what happened as the claim encountered decades of policy hurdles, court cases, public protests, and above all resistance by the Temagami First Nation. McNab provides details of how ministers and their senior officials resisted real efforts to resolve problems as well as examples of field staff resisting government attempts at resolution. He also shows that government entities such as the Indian Commission of Ontario and the Native Affairs Directorate were largely used as mailboxes where successive federal and provincial governments sent things they wanted to bury.

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McNab is uniquely positioned to shed light on a topic of vital interest to Canadian public debate because of his extensive experience inside the Aboriginal land claims process. Part memoir, part history, No Place for Fairness is a unique and valuable con

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David T. McNab is associate professor, Indigenous studies, York University. A Metis historian, he has worked on Indigenous rights in Canada for over thirty years.

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