Bill C-503
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Department of Justice Act and the Statutory Instruments Act to require that bills and regulations be examined to determine whether they abrogate or derogate from the protection provided for existing aboriginal or treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada by the recognition and affirmation of those rights in section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
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