The B.C. government and the City of Richmond’s response to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling granting Aboriginal rights to a portion of lands in Richmond to the Cowichan Tribes is provoking unnecessary fear, chiefs from related First Nations on Vancouver Island said Monday.

“We do not wish to deepen division. We are here to build a just future based on truth and reconciliation. One where British Columbia upholds its constitutional obligations,” said Chief Shana Thomas, also known as Laxele’wuts’aat, of the Lyackson First Nation, in a statement.

The Cowichan Tribes, also known as Quw’utsun, have taken issue with the claim by the City of Richmond, and taken up by Premier David Eby, that private landholders were prevented from being given notice of the legal case.

David Rosenberg, the Cowichan’s

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