Premier Christy Clark has asked to meet with BC First Nations leaders and her cabinet in September

Premier Christy Clark has asked to meet with BC First Nations
leaders and her cabinet in September. It will be the first such gathering since Clark became premier. “We’re working with the (First Nations) Leadership Council, and invitations are going to be going to all the chiefs in the province for Sept. 11 to be held in Vancouver,” said Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad. The Tsilhqot’in decision has prompted the government to move more quickly on a meeting that has been contemplated for more than a year, reads a Vancouver Sun report. Rustad said B.C. is reviewing the decision and will need to have figured out a path forward for the meeting. The Court ruled that the Tsilhqot’in First Nation had title to 1,700 square km (650 square miles) of land in the western province of British Columbia, and with many of the 200 first nations in BC without treaty, B.C. is facing a sea-change in how it does business in the province.