NATIVE NEWS: CONSTITUTION AUTHOR BLESSES DISPENSARIES

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Del Riley helped write sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. Last week, the former Chief of the National Indian Brotherhood (which became the Assembly of First nations) from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation told a cannabis discussion at Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation on Ontario's Manitoulin Island, "Your treaty rights [often containing guarantees of protecting businesses] are constitutionally protected. We’ve always run our own businesses, we’ve always traded all sorts of goods. We’ve never . . .