a , ey at 0 at # ye a ag & fa. & Ry ig 7 rire se pee Ss Ae Fulton: province's position illogical. Glesbrecht: like dealing in “hot" property. TERRACE — Both Jim Fulton, the NDP MP for Skeena, and Helmut Giesbrecht, the declared NDP candidate for the provinciat Skeena riding, are saying the B.C. government is using the issue of how the province and Canada will split the cost of settling the native land question as a smoke screen and a delaying tactic. Fulton said in Terrace Oct. 15, "I have it from an informed source, a senior official in the federal government, that Bill Vander Zalm has had discussions about a cost- sharing formula with Ottawa... the province took a very important step in Greenville [by agreeing to become a full participant in the Nisga’a claim negotiations], but Vander Zalm’s public position [that the province will pay nothing] is at best illogical." ~ The provincial government’s demand that all costs of settlement be borne by the federal govern- ment, Fulton sated, is like offering to participate in negotiations but bringing nothing to offer at the table. Vander Zalm, he added, is attempting to "hyperinflate" the value of lands and resources at Stake, a position he says will not lead to a settlement. Pressure on the federal govern- ment is still needed to settle claims within a reasonable time, Fulton said. Although B.C. Native Affairs Minister Jack Weisgerber said at the Greenville ceremony Oct. 11 that he had been told the federal government will increase the num- ber of claims it will negotiate, Fulton said that in fact the feds are “Where To Find It Terrace Review — - Wednesday, October 31, 1990 B7 Settlement costs all come from same pocket, Skeena New Democrats argue still only negotiating six claims at any one time. They have agreed to take on more than one claim in B.C., he said, because settlement of claims in other areas of Canada had left openings within the six- claim policy. Following provincial New Demo- crat leader Mike Harcourt’s an- nouncement in early October that an NDP government would be willing to accept up to 25 percent of the cost of claims settlement, Giesbrecht explained that the cost- Sharing arrangements are a second- ary matter because the cost of settling claims will come out of tax dollars and public resources no matter which level of government pays the bill. Because the federal government turned over the land and resources to B.C. without provision for native interests, Giesbrecht said, the province is in the same posi- tion as someone dealing in "hot" property — there are prior interests under law. And the costs of settle- ment, he added, are a legitimate price for B.C. to pay because the province will benefit from claim settlement. Those costs, he said, will not simply be cash — "larger beads and more expensive trinkets" — but also resources and lands the natives need to become permanent participants in the economy. 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