FROM FRONT Nisga’a protest released your so-called boltom line,’*? Osborn said in an inter- view Friday. “Tt would also give the ap- pearance of giving the First Na- lion a take-it-or-leave-it .pasi- tion,”’ he said, ‘We're negoliat- ing. We're not giving takc-it-or- leave-it positions.’ Provincial Nisga’a negotialor Jack Ebbels suggested the “bottom-line’? disclosure will consist of a set of province-wide guidclines of parameters for resolving certain topics. “We aren’t going to want our environmental, health and safety standards compromised,’’ Ebbels said, giving cxamples, “The Forest Practices. Code will be maintained, We're not interested in creating 40 or 42 scparate Criminal Codes. We want parks to remain parks.” Ebbels did confirm that the pro- vince can add anyone it wants to ils bargaining team — with or without the approval of the other parties. But he was cautious about what effect adding a municipal repre- sentative might have on the talks. “We're getting into a critical stage in the negotiations,’? Ebbels said. “I would be conscious of any effect on the dynamics al the table a new person might have. But I'd be pleased to discuss it with them.” Suggestions that the province might even open some parts of the claims talks to the public — or even televise them — also met a cool response from the negotia- tors. “T think it’s clear that there’s a public concern about more in- formation and we'll try to address that,’? Osborn said. ‘‘But I don’t believe the way to go about that is to necessarily open up negolia- tions in the way the province is lalking about.” Nisga’a Tribal Council presi- dent Joe Gosnell said he sees the province’s plans as a violation of the framework agreement that governs the talks between the Nisga'a, province, dnd “ federal government. (| 7S “‘They’re reneging' on ihe pro- cess that was agreed upon,”’ Gos- nell said. ‘A deal is a deal as far as we're concerned. At the mo- ment we're not considering a change of one dot in that agree- ment or the crossing of a T.”’ “TE this is going to be the posi- tion that governments take, whercin one party nas the ability to change something that was agreed to, then we've got serious problems.’’ ‘There is na room for outside observers or anybody else who would like to sit at the negotiating table,’’ Gosnell added. He said the province is caving in to pressure from the B.C. Reform party. That's ironic, he added, because B.C. Reform leader Jack Weis- gerber signed both the Nisga’a framework agreement and the in- terim measures protection agree- - ment. He said Harcourt’s intervention is a signal that even an NDP government will betray native people to get votes. “They're going into an election mode,’ Gosnell said. ‘‘That’s what’s happening.” Mayor applauds openness TERRACE MAYOR Jack Talstra applauded the province’s move last week to give towns and cities a seat at land claim negotiations. “This is something we have lobbicd for for the last three years,”’ Talstra said Friday He said he has been given as- surances by aboriginal affairs minister John Cashore that the B.C,’s new principles of land claims openness will also apply to future interim protection agree- ments. Those are agreements on what resource use is allovred in claimed areas prior to the signing of a final treaty. “Tt remains to be seen how well the government will listen to municipal representatives,’ Tal- stra added. Negotiations to resolve the Nisga’a claim to 25,000 square kilometres centred on the Nasa River valley north of Tetrace are set to resume next week in Van- couver. - A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 28, 1994 Gitksan decry move ALLOWING municipalities in on the land claim process will have every special interest group clamoring for the seme, predicts the Gilksan’s chief negotiator. Don Ryan said Premier Har- court’s decision to give B.C, municipalitics observer status at treaty talks is a needless, costly duplication. “Once you open it up for the muncipalities, you’re going to have everyone wanting the same,’’ Ryan said, “Tt's exactly what happened in our (Delgamuukw) court case, Our people couldn't even come into the court room because it was full of lawyers representing those interests. And we're going to see the same thing happen with the treaty.”’ The Crown, consisting of the federal and provincial govern- ments, répresents the public inter- est, Ryan said, whether the public likes it or not. , “That's where the . municipalities come from and the regional districts and the school boards and cverything else. Those entilies are creatures that the Crown has made,’’ he said, ‘Our assessment of this is that the municipalities aren’t repre- sentatives of the public interest,’’ Adding other players to the treaty process is an unnecessary complication, he continued, ‘It’s a duplication... the Crown ‘yepresents the public interest and whether you like it or not, that’s the theory and that’s the practice. “The point I want to make is that it’s so unnecessary, Even if you don’t trust your government, that’s who you have, And if you dont trust them, then . remove them.’” Complicating the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en treaty talks is a looming deadline. 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