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Opinion: Don't trust Ottawa on Musqueam agreement

British Columbians are not wrong to worry about the costs involved or the value of their private property

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Last weekend it became known that the Federal Government had signed an aboriginal rights agreement with the Musqueam First Nation, which acknowledged rights and title “within” a large area encompassing most of Metro Vancouver. This bilateral agreement between the Carney government and the Musqueam sets out their shared intention to “negotiate” Aboriginal title for the Musqueam within their vast claimed territory using the principles of UNDRIP as their lodestar.

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The last time we saw the federal government do this was on Haida Gwaii where, with the full support and participation of the David Eby government in B.C., they declared and went to court to solidify Aboriginal title for the Haida over their entire asserted terrestrial territory: that’s no less than a million hectares of land encompassing the whole of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast.

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