More Treaties in British Columbia

Update

Treaty talks rolling - Premier Gordon Campbell says 2007 has the potential to be a “breakthrough year” for B.C. in treaty negotiations (Times Colonist)

Four other B.C. treaty tables are in the process of turning agreements in principle into final deals.

MP: Tsawwassen treaty ‘long-term trouble’ (Vancouver Sun)

“The proposed Tsawwassen treaty poses long-term trouble for the residents of
Delta,” wrote John Cummins (Delta-Richmond East) in a letter [to Prime Minister Steven Harper] provided exclusively to The Vancouver Sun.

Cummins said some of his constituents on treaty lands will be subjected to taxation without representation. The riding itself will see prime farmland turn into an “industrial wasteland,” while the prized Burns Bog conservation area will be used by band members to hunt, gather and cut trees, he alleged.

Fishermen angry over native treaty (Globe and Mail)

To the fishermen, this is an old battle: the opponents of so-called “race-based” commercial fisheries have fought bitterly against that approach for 14 years.

B.C., Ottawa to sign first urban native treaty (Globe and Mail); Note the comments from people angry about the treaty process.

On the streets of Tsawwassen, natives said the treaty represents a fresh start.

Original Post

Two treaties are set to be initialled in the next couple of days. The long-anticipated Tsawwassen (Greater Vancouver) treaty goes first. The Maa-Nulth (West Coast Vancouver Island) treaty follows.

Stories:

BC, Ottawa, aboriginals to sign two new treaties in three days (Yahoo Canada News)
Two tentative treaties trickle into view just in time for the holidays (Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun)
Five island First Nations poised to initial treaty (Times Colonist)
Delta treaty worth $120M (Vancouver Sun)

More to come, I suspect …

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