<?xml version="1.0"?><Statute lims:pit-date="2026-01-01" hasPreviousVersion="true" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:current-date="2026-03-02" lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469925" lims:id="469925" bill-origin="commons" bill-type="govt-public" in-force="yes" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469926" lims:id="469926"><BillNumber>C-62</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>1</Session><Number>41</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>60-61-62</Year-s><Monarch>Elizabeth II</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2011-2012-2013</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469927" lims:id="469927">An Act to give effect to the Yale First Nation Final Agreement and to make consequential amendments to other Acts</LongTitle><ShortTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469928" lims:id="469928" status="official">Yale First Nation Final Agreement Act</ShortTitle><RunningHead lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469929" lims:id="469929">Yale First Nation Final Agreement</RunningHead><BillHistory lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469930" lims:id="469930"><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>3</DD></Date></Stages><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469932" lims:id="469932" stage="assented-to"><Date><YYYY>2013</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>19</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469933" lims:id="469933"><ConsolidatedNumber official="no">Y-0.2</ConsolidatedNumber><AnnualStatuteId><AnnualStatuteNumber>25</AnnualStatuteNumber><YYYY>2013</YYYY></AnnualStatuteId></Chapter><BillRefNumber date-time="2013-5-29">90643</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469934" lims:id="469934"><Preamble lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469935" lims:id="469935" salutation="no"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469936" lims:id="469936" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469937" lims:id="469937">Preamble</MarginalNote><Text>Whereas the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="const">Constitution Act, 1982</XRefExternal> recognizes and affirms the existing Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469938" lims:id="469938" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the reconciliation between the prior presence of Aboriginal peoples and the assertion of sovereignty by the Crown is of significant social and economic importance to Canadians;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469939" lims:id="469939" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas Canadian courts have stated that this reconciliation is best achieved through negotiation;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469940" lims:id="469940" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Yale First Nation, the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia have negotiated the Agreement to achieve this reconciliation and to establish a new relationship among them;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469941" lims:id="469941" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas the Agreement requires that legislation be enacted by the Parliament of Canada in order for the Agreement to be ratified;</Text></Provision></Preamble><Enacts lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469942" lims:id="469942"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469943" lims:id="469943" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469944" lims:id="469944"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469946" lims:id="1556844"><Label>1</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469949" lims:id="1556845"><Label>2</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469956" lims:id="1556846"><Label>3</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469959" lims:id="1556847"><Label>4</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469966" lims:id="1556848"><Label>5</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469972" lims:id="1556849"><Label>6</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469975" lims:id="1556850"><Label>7</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469978" lims:id="1556851"><Label>8</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469980" lims:id="1556852"><Label>9</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469983" lims:id="1556853"><Label>10</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469985" lims:id="1556854"><Label>11</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469988" lims:id="1556855"><Label>12</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469990" lims:id="1556856"><Label>13</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469993" lims:id="1556857"><Label>14</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="469995" lims:id="469995" level="1"><TitleText>General</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="469996" lims:id="1556858"><Label>15</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470003" lims:id="1556859"><Label>16</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470008" lims:id="1556860"><Label>17</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:lastAmendedDate="2013-06-19" lims:fid="470010" lims:id="470010"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="470011" lims:id="470011">Chapters 25 and 26 of Agreement</MarginalNote><Label>18</Label><Text>Despite subsection <XRefInternal>4</XRefInternal>(1), Chapters 25 and 26 of the Agreement are deemed to have effect as of February 5, 2010.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470012" lims:id="1556861"><Label>19</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470028" lims:id="1556862"><Label>20</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470030" lims:id="1556863"><Label>21</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470032" lims:id="1556864"><Label>22</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470034" lims:id="1556865"><Label>23</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470036" lims:id="1556866"><Label>24</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]</Repealed></Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="470037" lims:id="470037" level="1"><TitleText>Coming into Force</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-01" lims:fid="470038" lims:id="470038" type="transitional"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-19" lims:fid="470039" lims:id="470039">Order in council</MarginalNote><Label><FootnoteRef idref="fn_Ind20AF_hq_12360">*</FootnoteRef>25</Label><Text>The provisions of this Act, other than section <XRefInternal>18</XRefInternal>, come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.</Text><Footnote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-01" lims:fid="1556796" lims:id="1556867" id="fn_Ind20AF_hq_12360" placement="section" status="editorial"><Label>*</Label><Text>[Note: Act, other than section 18, repealed before coming into force, <Emphasis style="italic">see</Emphasis> 2008, c. 20, s. 3.]</Text></Footnote></Section></Body><RecentAmendments><Amendment><AmendmentCitation link="2008_20">2008, c. 20</AmendmentCitation><AmendmentDate>2026-01-01</AmendmentDate></Amendment></RecentAmendments></Statute>