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A2 - The ne ie tree Standard, Wednesday, November 3, 1999

Treaty vote ducked

“There was not a great
deal of intezest on council
itself,” Talstra said, add-
ing it’s now too late to
pass the required bylaws to
put another question on the
Nov. 20 ballot, “We’re into
the clection period and
can’! acd this as a referen-
dum question anyway.”

Talstra also argued thal
counci] had taken a. stand
in January that it didn’t
want to engage in a divi-

sive chmmunity- debate ~-

over the treaty when it
voted down a proposal by
councillor David Hull that
the city lake a formal
stand for or against.

“As far as [| am con-
cerned, it has been dealt
with,” he said.

“Whai il amounts to is
an opinion poll,” Talstra

said, adding treaty oppo-
nents’ beef is not with the
city but wilh the provincial
and federal governments.

Attempts to. fight the
treaty now. are futile and a
waste of time and ‘energy,
Talstra added, —

Instead, ‘he said, local ©

people should concentrate
on understanding how the

treaty will be implemented —

and making sure that's
workable,

“There are: gaing: ta’ be
new rules,” Talstra said.

“People have to know.

whal. they: are and ‘that

hey can rely on. them.”

‘Rather than a futile at-
tempt tc defeal or change
ihe treaty, Talstra «said,
local people should pre-
pare to deal with it.

“This is going to
happen,” he sald. “We

should be busy determin- .

ing how we pet along with

each other in a post-treaty
work. That's where [ think.

the focus should be: now,”
-“We are going to-have

to have some cool’ heads .
on all sides-to work-this _

oul, That’s. what L-think,”
Just'two B.C.-towns -
Coldstream and. Armstrong
~ have. opted to. conduct
treaty~ referendums~at “the
same .time-as municipal
elections this November.
The...fisheries ‘survival
coalition -is one of ‘the
treaty’s leading ‘opponents,
and ‘is one of the ‘plaintiffs
leading’ court. challenges

against.the treaty on con- .

slitutional grounds,

Nisga’a wants treaty probe
and files police complaint

A MEMBER of one of four
Nisga’a bands who op-
poses the Nisga’a land
claims treaty has filed a
fraud complaint with
Prince Rupert RCMP.

Frank Barton, from Kin-
colith but who has lived in
Vancouver for years, al-
leges the Nisga’a Tribal
Council, which negotiated
the treaty, included Kinco-
lith after il voted to with-
draw from negotiations.

“The treaty is not legal-
ly binding on the parties
until it is ratified,” said
Barton in an Oct. 28 press
release.

Sgt. Kirk Nevison of the
Prince Rupert RCMP ack-
nowledged receiving the
complaint.

“We’ve received tons
of documentation. We'll
need to sift through it all,”
he said last week,

Barton has conducted
an active campaign
against the treaty which

‘was ratified by the! Nisga’a |

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last year, by the provincial
legislature this spring and
which is now being deba-
ted in Parliament.

He and others are upset:

that lands to be included
in the treaty do not take in
the traditional territories

claimed by the house
clans resident in Kincolith.

Barton also says he has
passed along the same in-
formation to the federal
solicitor general and to
federal Indian affairs mini-
ster Robert Nault.

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> Fought diligently against casino gambling in our region
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> Fought for your right to answer the referendum
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=> Fought both the provincial government and the official

opposition to protect our forest industry and the
stability of our economy,

= Fought through lobby efforts to make the government
aware of the problems with our hospital, have had
continued dialogue with health care providers and
health council to keep awareness and issues current.

© Fought for the institution of a Social Planning

Commission to make quality of life recommendations
to council for inclusion in all future planning.

=> Fought to enhance city involvement in crime
prevention initiatives for the better protection of all

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