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04 March 2011
AS RUN IN THE VANCOUVER SUN, MARCH 3, 2011
BC’s New Premier May Face Unprecedented Native Unrest if rights ignored
In an article in The Sun February 14, (“The Skeetchestn say enough already”), Rich Denault, the Skeetchestn Band Chief served notice that the way business and governments ride roughshod over native rights in BC has to come to an end, or face the consequences, which may not be pretty.
He says, very bluntly, “In the days ahead, those companies and agencies that have not acted honourably will be receiving letters from us, advising them to tell their customers to expect possible service interruptions regarding their operations in our traditional lands. We’re writing to the six Liberal leadership candidates to advise them as well…(to ask if)…a first nations community should be shredded for the betterment of forest companies, or railway companies, or energy companies, or tax revenues.”
One might have thought that such a threatened disruption of BC’s economy might have stirred some debate among the Liberal leadership candidates, but none was noticeable. And that is too bad because I expect that Chief Denault’s impatience might signal broader direct action in the native community over the next few years.
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