Both the Nisga’a and the Haisla First Nations in B.C. are ensuring they will determine their own futures by owning major projects, employing hundreds of people, and accruing revenues to build up their communities.

This is the best vision of reconciliation, one that integrates First Nations into the B.C. economy as leaders on their own terms, with jobs and benefits for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike. There is no future in maintaining a status quo that stifles innovation and economic growth for those nations in the resource industry. It could not come at a better time for Canada.

British Columbia is set to become Canada’s top supplier of LNG to Asia and the Pacific, and First Nations are leading that transformation. LNG Canada, a liquefied natural gas export terminal in the tow

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