The North Slave Métis Alliance has filed a judicial review...

The North Slave Métis Alliance has filed a judicial review application against the Government of the Northwest Territories alleging discrimination against Métis hunters who were excluded from the Bathurst Caribou hunt. They say the government has given other Aboriginal groups, including the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and the Tlicho, rights to hunt the herd even though there has been a ban on hunting the herd in place since 2009. The alliance claims it has been trying for two years to get rights to hunt the herd, but have been denied. “This harvest allocation would be in fairness to the North Slave Métis people in accordance with the allocation that the GNWT has seen fit to make to our aboriginal counterparts,” said Alliance President Bill Enge. “We have these Section 35 Aboriginal rights that are constitutionally protected and the GNWT needs to respect the law of the land, namely that the Métis that are members of the North Slave Métis Alliance have Aboriginal rights,” he said.