Breakfast operators for its progressiveness
Fallout from the Supreme Court’s affirmation of underlying aboriginal rights in British Columbia has reached the Sunshine Coast.
The Sechelt First Nation, praised by everyone from premiers to bed and breakfast operators for its progressiveness, has just informed the forest industry that it can no longer be business as usual.
The band has invited major forestry companies operating on the Sunshine Coast and the province’s assistant deputy minister for timber sales to discuss how relationships must change.
“This is a dialogue we need to have together,” said a letter from the band council obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
The letter assures the band’s commitment to the forest industry as a vital contributor to the regional economy. Forestry remains the biggest private sector employer, sustaining about one in three Sunshine Coast jobs.
“We are committed to finding revitalized and new ways of working together that build upon the positive work done to date and reflect the directions that the Tsilquot’in decision encourages us all to move,” it says.