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Originally Posted by Cuz
Very good read, seems to be a fair assessment of the issues surrounding the road. It does lead me to wonder, if the main contention of the nation was the wording of the agreement, why did it take so long to reach another agreement in principle?
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I think a lot of the land being promised to TTN was land that the province did not yet have control over. So it had leases and land sales in progress. So because of that there was a lot of conditional wording in the last agreement.
A lot of the land that was promised is now within control of the province, so instead of having to say:
"as long as the current leashold (who's contract is up in 2012) doesn't issue any of the following challenges:
(5 pages of possible issues)"
It now says:
"We will give you X parcel of land in exchange for Y parcel of land, as well as Z number of dollars."
I can't say I can blame the First Nations for not trusting us for contracts we trying to push through on them. We do have a track record of not always working in their best interests over the last 400 years.