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AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 23, 1997

‘NISGA’A NEGOTIATIONS

: NEGOTLATORS are now meeting

: every week in efforts to get a Nisga’a
ictreaty completed before the federal

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‘election.

They were in Terrace last week for
another marathon negotiating session.

Federal Indian affairs minister Ron

-Irwin isn’t running for re-election, and
failure to get a deal soon will likely
mean a delay of months while
bureaucrats are shuffled and Irwin’s
successor gets up to speed.

But if a deal is getting close, offi-
cials with all three sides are keeping
tight-lipped about its contents.

The vast majority of the work is said
to revolve around the drafting of the
legal text of the document.

Officials on all three sides say the
final treaty so far is closely following
ihe outline provided by the Nisga’a
agreement-in-principle, signed just
over a year aga.

But Nisga’a team spokesman Néel-
son Leeson said there may be more
significant changes in positions in the
final hours of the negotiations.

Although negotiators were here all
last week, members of the public and
the media were only allowed in for a
bricf 40-minute ‘‘open session” last
Tuesday. ~~

It: dealt only with the Nisga’a
Government’s relationship with the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District.

“We're compelled by the

Talks go flat out for treaty

agreement-in-principle to have these
open sessions from time to time,"
Nisga’a spokesman Nelson Leeson
said in opening the session,

Behind closed doors were further
negotiations on public access to land
for recreation, steelhead entillements,
and water entitlements,

Details on the forestry provisions of
the treaty aren’t being released yet ei-
ther.

They’re supposed to be negotiating
a fint] annual allowable cut allowed
within the arca after several years.
Other topics include ‘‘transitional
measures”, which includes retraining
programs to address forest industry
job losses,

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$300,000 was
devoted io the $1 million
teleradiology project that

their time working on other
health-related Projects, he
added.

experiment has cost tax-
payers approximately
$300,000.

The experiment was called
the Northwest Regional
Health Board and ii was to
replace the Skeena Health
Unit and other health ser-
vice providers as part of a
grand provincial plan to
remove decision making
from the health ministry in-
Victoria.

Three full time people
were hired just a year ago to
work for the new board.

But the experiment was

regionalization plans and
wanted to rejig the concept.

That review late last year
resulted in the decision to
kill the northwest regional
board concept, essentially
replacing it with a new-
look, new-name health unit
model.

But while the defunct
regional health board rang
up a cost of $300,000 it isn’t
necessarily a wasted ex-
penditure.

Health ministry official
Manjit Sidbu said a portion

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