Wave of Treaties Coming through the BC Treaty Process?

When questioned about the lack of progress in the B.C. treaty process, Mr. Patrick Borby, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, says

"Yes, everybody had envisaged that we would be further along in the B.C. treaty process than where we are right now...There are good prospects for further treaties to move forward. The vast majority of the other negotiations are at the agreement-in-principle stage, and some of them are at the very advanced agreement-in-principle stage. So we think there's kind of a wave making its way through the system, and we're hopeful that we'll be able to have a lot of progress over the next two years."

One has to admire the optimism of this statement made before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. However, as reported here the Cohen Commission may well make a ripple out the wave Mr. Borby foresees.