Your voice is crucial. HCA transformation needs thoughtful input, not alarmism. If you care about archaeology & heritage in BC, please add your constructive ideas to the conversation thru this BC Survey open to everyone: engage.gov.bc.ca/heritagecons... (6/6) #BCPoli #PublicConsultation #GetInvolved

Countries like Japan show that a modern economy and respect for deep history can coexist. It's not an "either/or" choice. These reforms offer a path to a more efficient, predictable, and respectful future for all of BC. (5/6) #BCPoli #SharedHeritage

The current permitting system is painfully slow. Modernizing it with a single, project-based permit will help.

We also need better data standards, bringing in Indigenous cultural landscapes, & abolishing fragmented site polygons. Data is a problem in the current system! (4/6)
#BCPoli #BCHeritage

MYTH: HCA reforms would give First Nations "veto" over private property.

FACT: The HCA has applied to private land for over 60 years. The goal now is to create a predictable 'dial-before-you-dig' system to provide better information to everyone before construction starts. (3/6) #BCPoli #BCHeritage

MYTH: The HCA reforms were drafted in secret.

FACT: I've been in the consultation room over 3 years alongside planners, developers, real estate agents & First Nations. The dialogue has been open & practical. No NDAs were required. This is about finding solutions together. (2/6) #BCPoli #BCHeritage

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In September Brian will visit Jōmon period sites in Japan (where he worked for a summer as an archaeologist back in 1992!) with colleagues from Cowichan Tribes to see what we can learn from the amazing best practices in Japanese cultural heritage for the future of sites here in BC.

Our chair, Brian Thom, has been taking Japanese classes and coordinating with colleagues from Ritsumeikan University and Cowichan Tribes for a brand new joint project on Jōmon (Japan) and Coast Salish (BC) heritage site.

Without making too much light of a serious subject (or imposing a Sapir-Whorf kind of view on the nuance of culture-language-law), the word 'permission' does not exist in the Cowichan dictionary. 😄

Good one Sharon! The biggest available Hul'q'umi'num' dictionary has a word with the same root: thuyum'iilh [√thuy-m-iilh] "stay over at someone’s
place". Not sure how the /-θət-/ works in the word, though my sense is that it means something about 'say').

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CBC Radio's On the Island always strives to ask great questions and engage key issues: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The newly amalgamated BC didn't join Canada until 1871. The fact that Vancouver Island is not a province like PEI is just a fluke of the geo-politics of those days.

Of course all of these colonial machinations were oblivious to Indigenous sovereignties.

#IndigenousSovereignty #CanadianHistory

Locals at the time were concerned about threats and intimidation of US expansionism, imperialism, and the ideologues pushing American manifest destiny. (#whatelseinnew). Together these colonies could better resist.

#Geopolitics
#CanadianSovereignty
#BCHistory