The partnership between First Nation and federal government is remarked as “historic”. They had negotiated in the past but their negotiations were not considered successful. Recently, B.C. cabinet and native leaders came together in order to improve their relationship. Premier Christy Clark kept saying that she is not there to answer all the questions. In addition. She also responded “We simply aren’t there yet,” to First Nations proposal which I think is not a good answer.
I found one sentence that Christy said very interesting, “This is our chance to be on the right side of history”. I wondered, what is the right side of history? If we looked back into the history, there were some really bad actions which did hurt a lot of native people, and I believed that First Nation people needed to be treated equally. As Christy said, that the right side of history is that they need to provide First Nation people with better treatment. Thus, I think the corporation between First Nation and federal government is necessary, and their corporation should correspond to what people really need.
On the other hand, some people believed that they shouldn’t take responsibility for the mistake that their ancestor made. In sum, this is a controversial topic for all time. So all they can do is just keeping on negotiation and trying to find a solution which satisfy both group of people.
B.C. Premier urges cooperation, not more litigation, as government and natives reach “new fork in road”