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‘NISGA’A NEGOTIATIONS

: NEGOTLATORS are now meeting

: every week in efforts to get a Nisga’a ictreaty completed before the federal

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‘election.

They were in Terrace last week for another marathon negotiating session.

Federal Indian affairs minister Ron

-Irwin isn’t running for re-election, and failure to get a deal soon will likely mean a delay of months while bureaucrats are shuffled and Irwin’s successor gets up to speed.

But if a deal is getting close, offi- cials with all three sides are keeping tight-lipped about its contents.

The vast majority of the work is said to revolve around the drafting of the legal text of the document.

Officials on all three sides say the final treaty so far is closely following ihe outline provided by the Nisga’a agreement-in-principle, signed just over a year aga.

But Nisga’a team spokesman Néel- son Leeson said there may be more significant changes in positions in the final hours of the negotiations.

Although negotiators were here all last week, members of the public and the media were only allowed in for a bricf 40-minute ‘‘open session” last Tuesday. ~~

It: dealt only with the Nisga’a Government’s relationship with the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District.

“We're compelled by the

Talks go flat out for treaty

agreement-in-principle to have these open sessions from time to time," Nisga’a spokesman Nelson Leeson said in opening the session,

Behind closed doors were further negotiations on public access to land for recreation, steelhead entillements, and water entitlements,

Details on the forestry provisions of the treaty aren’t being released yet ei- ther.

They’re supposed to be negotiating a fint] annual allowable cut allowed within the arca after several years. Other topics include ‘‘transitional measures”, which includes retraining programs to address forest industry job losses,

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experiment has cost tax- payers approximately $300,000.

The experiment was called the Northwest Regional Health Board and ii was to replace the Skeena Health Unit and other health ser- vice providers as part of a grand provincial plan to remove decision making from the health ministry in- Victoria.

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But while the defunct regional health board rang up a cost of $300,000 it isn’t necessarily a wasted ex- penditure.

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