The blockade was brief, but the point was made.
This morning, dozens of protesters spent several minutes keeping traffic from moving onto the bridge linking Vancouver with the city’s airport.
The Musqueam First Nation has spent 100 days fighting plans to develop the site of an ancient burial ground near Granville and Marine Drive.
Band member Cecilia Point says the BC government’s falsely claiming a cash-for-land trade is close.
“we are going to purchase this property with some of that money, but definitely not all of that money. our band has other needs for those funds. Me personally? I’m prepared to pay nothing for it because we never gave this land away. It was taken from us.”
The province is offering up as much as 16-million dollars, but Point insists that’s all money already owed the band.
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