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The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is closely monitoring a case that got underway in Swift Current court this morning.
It involves a treaty hunter, who was found not guilty of illegal hunting by a provincial court judge. That decision is now being appealed in Swift Current Queen’s Bench Court.
FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron says the appeal is a waste of time and money. He says the Supreme Court has established treaty hunting rights do extend to private unposted land, if that land is not being used for any other purpose.
Cameron says that was the ruling of the provincial court judge, and he expects that will be the ruling of the court of Queen’s Bench judge.