Archive - Mar 1, 2009

BC government and First Nations agree to legislation protecting native rights and land title

Submitter Name: 
Brian Beaton

From the Globe and Mail 

Proposed law would enshrine native rights and land title - Province to introduce Act to define method to make decisions over lands and resources

JUSTINE HUNTER - February 28, 2009

VICTORIA -- British Columbia is poised to introduce an unprecedented law that will recreate the economic interdependence that once existed between early colonists and aboriginal populations, a top native leader said yesterday.