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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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