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- Title: British Columbia: The New Relationship is Dead, Long Live the New Relationship (Aboriginal Law)
- Author : John B.H. Edmond
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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In British Columbia, the Campbell government's February 2009 Speech from the Throne promised a New Relationship in which a Recognition and Reconciliation Act would recognize "constitutionally established rights and title" and provide for shared decision-making and revenues with First Nations (LawNow, July/August 2009). It was to create "process certainty for third parties and Indigenous Nations" for economic development and enable establishment of government-to-government political structures. For business, this went too far; for First Nations, not far enough (which may have been its best feature). The government was re-elected in May; by August the original New Relationship was as dead as the Monty Python parrot. But, if province-wide agreement on rights and title was not attainable, at least region-by-region agreements on process may be. Two such phoenix-like "Reconciliation Protocols" were signed in early December, 2009 with six Coastal First Nations and the Haida of Haida Gwaii. These protocols provide funded processes for shared decision-making on resource use, approaches to sharing of resource revenue and carbon offsets, and other elements. Useful as these may be, they fall far short of the ambitious finality of the original New Relationship.