The problem with indigenous consultation is it’s such a fuzzy requirement. Does it mean meeting with every band council and getting agreement from all of them? What about when some band members disagree with their council? Or when a different council takes power than the one that agreed to the deal? Or a band changes its mind and wants to renegotiate? Or they drag out the process for years and years in the hopes of securing a better deal?
We’ve seen in city politics how you’ll never get local consensus on green-lighting a development. And a lot of folks get frustrated when that means infrastructure like condo developments and c-train lines get scrapped. There are obviously different legal considerations dealing with First Nations. But like municipal politics, if 100 per cent consensus is the threshold for approval, we should resign ourselves to nothing ever being built.
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