ABSTRACT This paper argues that interspecies justice is integral to rising decolonizing nationalist ‘reconciliation’ efforts in Canada and that such an interspecies perspective on reconciliation carries a significant promise for developing a new legal subjectivity for animals in settler colonial law to change the conditions of the lives of animals materially. I demonstrate that the personhood ascribed to animals in numerous Indigenous legal orders in Canada, as well as underlying non-anthropocentric worldviews where animals are not considered inferior to humans but are to be regarded as kin, should stimulate a new legal conversation in Canadian law about who/what animals are and the legal subjectivity and regard they merit among all those committed to reconciliation. Indigenous legal orders offer animal advocates a new and potentially transformative legal argument as to why the continued legal classification of animals as a property in Canadian law is exploitative and incompatible with a dominant legal order seeking to foster genuine reconciliation. Notwithstanding the residual anthropocentric elements of Indigenous worldviews promoting ‘respectful’ or ‘reciprocal’ relations with animals, and how such elements might be co-opted by settler society, this new reconciliation-originating animal-friendly argument has the potential, if adopted, to alter the material conditions of lives of many animals, most notably in intensive agriculture.

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令人不安的以人类为中心的法律体系：和解、土著法律和动物人格

摘要 本文认为，种间正义是加拿大非殖民化民族主义“和解”努力不可或缺的一部分，这种种间和解的观点对在定居者殖民法中为动物发展新的法律主体性以改变生活条件具有重要意义。动物的物质。我证明，加拿大众多原住民法律秩序中赋予动物的人格，以及潜在的非人类中心世界观，即动物不被认为低于人类，而是被视为亲属，应该激发加拿大法律中关于谁/什么动物以及法律主观性和他们在所有致力于和解的人中的价值。土著法律秩序为动物倡导者提供了一个新的、具有潜在变革性的法律论据，以解释为什么在加拿大法律中继续将动物作为财产的法律分类是剥削性的，并且与寻求促进真正和解的主导法律秩序不相容。尽管土著世界观中残留的人类中心元素提倡与动物的“尊重”或“互惠”关系，以及这些元素如何被定居者社会吸收，但这种新的源自和解的动物友好论点有可能，如果被采纳，改变许多动物生活的物质条件，尤其是在集约化农业中。