Coast Salish Traditional Territory/Vancouver: First Nations leaders heard today’s announcement by the Hon. George Heyman, Minister of Environment, on behalf of the Province of BC, that a new process is under way to revitalize the BC environmental assessment process, including revising the Environmental Assessment Act. The process must be reformed to reflect the standards affirmed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UN Declaration), consistent with the Government’s promise to Indigenous peoples to fully implement the UN Declaration.
