In-SHUCK-ch Chief Negotiator: It's the economy!

During a BC Finance Committee hearing the BC Treaty Commission question surfaces: "Has there been a sufficient return on investment in the BC treaty process given the time and money spent? Has it been worth it?" Eppa (Gerard Peters) In-SHUCK-ch Chief Negotiator goes on the record saying:

"I have to tell you that from the chair I occupy at the treaty negotiations, it has not been."

For In-SHUCK-ch Chief Negotiator, it's the failure to address economic issues that is the main cause for concern. For In-SHUCK-ch, participation "...in the economy has been our intention from the time we started talking about these things in the early to mid-1980s." Economic issues are paramount because the goal for In-SHUCK-ch is to "...ultimately pay our own way in contemporary society." For the whole story see the Hansard transcripts of the hearing at 11:40 here. In-SHUCK-ch is considered one of the lead tables, very close to reaching a Final Agreement.

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