This paper reviews a pair of Canadian legal decisions on the duty to consult to explore the court’s role in reconciling tensions between settler colonial and capitalist space. Following a period of political and economic instability that made energy development vulnerable to Indigenous legal challenge, the court legalised the delegation of Indigenous consultations to corporate and regulatory actors, defined consultation in practical terms, and intensified the remedy for inadequate consultation. The court not only substituted nation‐to‐nation negotiations with corporate engagements, but submitted energy corporations to the work of legitimising and effectuating Canadian sovereignty. The decisions call for an expanded view of “reconciliation” as a judicial practice of Indigenous dispossession, accomplished not only by reconciling Indigenous authority with Canadian sovereignty, but by reconciling capitalist energy development with the legalities of Canada’s modern settler colonial order. The decisions bring into greater focus the state’s increasing reliance on corporations to reproduce Canadian sovereignty.

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和解2.0：解决加拿大定居者殖民和资本主义空间生产中的矛盾

本文回顾了加拿大有关对义务进行磋商的法律决定，以探讨法院在调解定居者殖民地与资本主义空间之间的紧张关系中的作用。经过一段时间的政治和经济动荡，使能源开发容易受到土著法律挑战，法院使土著协商委派公司和监管机构合法化，在实际意义上定义了协商，并加强了协商不足的补救措施。法院不仅以公司参与来代替国与国之间的谈判，而且还让能源公司参与使加拿大主权合法化和实现其主权的工作。这些决定要求扩大对“和解”的看法，将其作为土著剥夺的司法惯例，不仅通过使土著权威与加拿大主权和解，而且还通过使资本主义能源发展与加拿大现代定居者殖民秩序的合法性和解来实现这一目标。这些决定使该州更加依赖公司来重现加拿大的主权。