LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bute Inlet, Honor Killing, Homicide
5 Jan 2017
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Lecture 6: the rule of law establishing the dominion over aboriginal. Introduction: r v. ly (1987) - honour killings. It was proposed by defence that she had betrayed him and provoked him by cheating on her. Husband was vietnamese, due to his culture cheating was a much greater deal. The government is not permitted to violate the law. Substantial amount of law indicating what the government can and can"t do. The government can prosecute/punish a citizen in only the situations and manners indicated in the law. The authorities can not temporarily break or ignore the law in certain situations: connection between the rule of law and aboriginals in canada. In the second half of the nineteenth-century, criminal law played two significant roles in euro-canadians" effort to take control of what we now regard as western canada: This was to show that canada was taking full control of the land and not merely sharing the region with other nations.
