Justice at Last or Just More of the Past? An Evaluation of the British Columbia Treaty Commission
AbstractThis paper discusses a new agency intended to help create new equitable treaties between the indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the governments of that Province and of Canada. It evaluates the British Columbia Treaty Commission in the hope that readers can draw ideas from the Canadian experience. The Treaty Commission has no power to investigate, make conclusions, or submit recommendations but is a facilitative agency whose duty is to keep negotiations organised and whose power is primarily persuasive. The author, therefore, concludes that it is merely one step that might help make the difference in the resolution of the native land question. |