There still seems to be a fair amount of suspicion of the process when it comes to the negotiations between the province and the Haida, but a recently negotiated settlement on nine new conservancies on Haida Gwaii are being hailed as a good starting point between the two parties.
The Haida who have not been impressed with successive provincial governments and the pace and tenor of negotiations, especially during the NDP government years with Mike Harcourt at the helm of the provincial government, a period of time that still seems to resonate on Haida Gwaii as a particularly bad period for progress between governments…
(from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 8926714785 )-