Is there a bigger poker game going on here?
As it stands, most of the FNs in BC have not settled their land claims, and based on the many decades these claims have been going on, i have to wonder if there is a deal based on this deal in the works?
The treaty dealing with the White Rock - Tsawassen band gave them 1 % of the Fraser River salmon run, given that there was so little land to hand out because of development on the local area.
If there is no trade off on salmon for a larger land claims settlement on the BC Coast, then I am left to wonder what it will take to get those land claims settled.
In Australia the Indigenous land claims were settled by a Commission that had 10 years to hold hearings and get the matter dealt with. In Canada, we have an INDUSTRY of consultants, accountants, historians, and lawyers, that are all costing the tax payer millions on millions, each year.
All the same, the restrain of the Skeena Bands to focus only on the Chinook runs, really is going to mean nothing, when their members then go after Sockeye with no repercussions from the very Bands that the members belong to.
Drewski
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