{"id":61162,"date":"2015-09-11T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61162"},"modified":"2025-01-19T06:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:16:25","slug":"b-c-premier-calls-on-first-nations-to-drive-economic-and-social-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/11\/b-c-premier-calls-on-first-nations-to-drive-economic-and-social-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. premier calls on First Nations to drive economic and social ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Premier Christy Clark (Photo from Clark’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VANCOUVER \u2013 Leaders of British Columbia\u2019s First Nations came looking for a home run but left meetings with Premier Christy Clark and her cabinet wondering if they even made it to first base.<\/p>\n

At least a year will have to pass before the leaders will know if they cleared the fence or hit a sacrifice bunt while trying to resolve historic land rights with the government, said Grand Chief Ed John of the First Nations Summit, one of B.C.\u2019s largest aboriginal groups.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of First Nations\u2019 leaders approved on Thursday a 12-page reconciliation document that is being billed as a guide for future economic, social and legal relations between aboriginals and the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commitment is really there,\u201d said John who called the talks constructive and positive. \u201cNow we need to dig down and do the actions that are necessary to followup.<\/p>\n

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Last year we kind of fell apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have our disagreements and that is absolutely true, and that disagreement fundamentally is about the land itself and the right of First Nations to the land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Clark said her government supports the document.<\/p>\n

She called on First Nations to become the driving force behind the wide-ranging agreement that forges a stronger economic and social partnership between First Nations and British Columbians.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have heard from you loud and clear you see reconciliation as something unique to your communities,\u201d she said at the conclusion of a two-day gathering in Vancouver. \u201cWe need to go down the path of reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The document states the goals and objectives of reconciliation include \u201cAchieving predictability and stability in the economy, and closing the socio-economic gap that persists between First Nations and non-First Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark said reconciliation involves improving the lives of families, especially children. She said the images of the dead Syrian boy on a beach hit her as a parent and hit the parents of First Nations even harder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn seeing Alan Kurdi there, we saw our own children,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery parent knows that sense of fragility. The number of First Nations\u2019 children who find their way into government care is a problem across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pledged to hold a meeting to discuss aboriginal children\u2019s issues in the coming months and vowed to ensure the federal government will send representatives to next year\u2019s chiefs\u2019 gathering.<\/p>\n

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said the government is currently at Strike 2 when it comes to reconciliation, and if there is no significant movement over the next year, First Nations will return to legal challenges and protest camps.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was a step,\u201d said Shane Gottfriedson, B.C. Assembly of First Nations\u2019 regional chief.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis gathering gave me the confidence there is a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aboriginal relations Minister John Rustad said he could not put a deadline on reaching reconciliation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about a destination,\u201d he said. \u201cIt really is about a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Nations \u2013 buoyed by the Supreme Court of Canada land rights victory in central B.C. \u2013 want more say and revenue sharing on proposed resource projects on land they consider their territory.<\/p>\n

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Most of B.C.\u2019s major development projects, including the Site C hydroelectric dam and the Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway pipeline projects, already face court challenges from First Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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