By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Daily Gleaner A retired businessman in New Brunswick who says the Holt Liberal government has abandoned private citizens in a landmark case to decide Aboriginal title has convinced the province’s highest court to let him take part in the proceedings. Daryl Branscombe, who owns EMS Enterprises Inc., a real estate holding company, petitioned the New Brunswick Court of Appeal when he read in the newspaper that the Liberal government had decided not to pursue a defence on behalf of private owners whose properties are within the title claim filed by the Wolastoqey Nation of New Brunswick. “There didn’t seem to be anybody else taking this on,” Branscombe told Brunswick News in an interview. “Normally, it would be the Crown, or the province,…
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