Dozens, and perhaps hundreds of protestors are expected to take to the streets this morning at the 100-day mark of a land dispute centred around a native burial ground.
Members of the Musqueam First Nation are still negotiating a cash-for-land deal with the Century Group after human remains were found at a site slated for condos.
The Province has already given the band nearly 5-million dollars, and is now committing another 12-million.
But band member Cecelia Point says that money is owed to the Musqueam for other projects around the region, “The funds that are coming to us are not a grant, they are for lands that are owed to us. So now we’re using that cash, which we could use for other things. Some of our people need housing and education, that’s our own land, we have to buy our own land back, which we never gave away.”
The march starts at 9:30.
A protest earlier this year saw demonstrators block traffic to the Arthur Laing Bridge for several hours.
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