Local. Business. Intelligence. October 18–24, 2011 • Issue 1147
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Local industrial land evolution
The aboriginal enterprise initiatives of ex-PM Paul Martin 5
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n this third instalment of a three-part series, Business in Vancouver examines how Metro Vancouver’s recently adopted Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) will preserve industrial land, the loss of which is a huge concern to regional land management advocates like Bob Laurie. The series’ first instalment examined how the plan could promote
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development via transportation and transit links (see “Banking on transit’s power to drive growth” – issue 1145; October 4-10). Instalment 2 explored the additional layers of bureaucracy that will accompany the RGS and their impact on development and other business enterprise (“Red flags over red tape” – issue 1146; October 11-17). Business in Vancouver special report – 6, 7
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Treaty trouble stalls development >BC Treaty Commission boss blasts lack of urgency in a process that, after 20 years and $533 million, has generated widespread investment uncertainty and yielded only two treaties
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irst Nations treaty negotiations in B.C. have slowed to a crawl, and unless the government and First Nations re-commit to accelerate the process, the province’s chief commissioner believes it should be abandoned. Last week, Sophie Pierre asked for a oneyear extension to her three-year term as BC Treaty Commission chief commissioner in an attempt to get negotiations back online. Pierre told Business in Vancouver the “lack of urgency” in negotiations is “ridiculous.” She said unless Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Premier Christy Clark and the First Nations Summit re-commits to the treaty process to hasten negotiations and implement treaties, then the process, which she criticized as being a “program,” should be shut down. “If it continues to be a program instead of negotiations, then when I leave I’ll just be telling everybody, ‘Look, folks, it’s not working, forget it; it’s a waste of time,” said Pierre. see Negotiation, 4
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Anne Callaghan, the first American woman consul general to be based in Vancouver, on better cross-border business 43
Squamish Chief Gibby Jacob: “right now, the table is just way too slanted in favour of the other governments [in treaty negotiations]”