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From YouTube: FEBRUARY 27 2020 Statements Bowinn Ma
Description
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
5th Session
41st Parliament
A
Member
fur
North
Vancouver
Lonsdale
with
over
four
thousand
citizens,
the
Squamish
nation
is
made
up
of
Coast
Salish
people
who
have
lived
in
their
territory
and
Greater
Vancouver
how
sound
and
the
Squamish
River
watershed
for
at
least
10,000
years,
based
on
archaeological
record
five
decades
after
the
creation
of
the
Indian
Reserve
System
by
the
federal
government.
Sixteen
communities
that
were
regarded
as
separate
Indian
bands
United
as
the
Squamish
nation
on
July
23rd
1923,
in
what
is
known
as
the
amalgamation,
Squamish
territory,
measures,
six
thousand
seven
hundred
and
thirty-two
square
kilometers.
A
But
after
the
Indian
Act
forced
people
onto
reserves,
the
Squamish
people
were
living
in
a
number
of
Indian
reserves
encompassing
28.2,
eight
square
kilometers,
scattered
from
Vancouver
to
Gibson's
Landing
to
the
area
north
of
how
sound
but
they've
been
rebuilding
and
in
the
words
of
Squamish
nation,
councillor,
kal
salem.
They
are
becoming
powerful
in
their
territory
once
more.
In
addition
to
being
a
partner
of
MST,
Development
Corporation,
the
nation
itself
is
becoming
one
of
the
most
powerful
land
developers
in
the
Metro
Vancouver
Region.
A
Last
year,
they
announced
their
plans
to
build
6,000
new
units
in
11
towers,
on
reserve
land
at
the
southern
foot
of
Burrard
Street
Bridge
on
False
Creek,
the
majority,
the
vast
majority
of
these
new
units
will
be
purpose-built.
Rental
called
Cenac.
This
development
is
a
three
billion
dollar
development
that
will
help
the
nation
develop
ellic
economically,
with
the
intended
revenue
to
pay
for
social
services
and
housing.
Some
people
are
calling
it
the
single
largest
development
on
First
Nations
land
in
Canada,
then
they
created
a
not-for-profit
housing.
A
Society
called
hee
young
task,
WA
himesh
housing
society,
which
aims
to
bring
many
Squamish
citizens
home
into
their
communities
by
building
over
1,000
units
of
affordable
and
supportive,
non-market
rental
housing
with
rents
tied
to
income.
Mr.
speaker,
everyone
in
this
house
should
have
an
understanding
of
what
colonialism
has
done
to
indigenous
people
like
those
who
make
up
the
Squamish
nation
stripped
of
their
land,
their
language,
their
culture
what's
anak
and
he
yung
tusks
WA
Hamish
is
more
than
economic
development.