“Recent book -. Hells Angels d Strange |
~ and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
golf, Scuba ond reading :

According. to the: North .
fancouver RCMP, the robber

came into the pub at the foot

f Pemberton “Avenue*.and
asked . to: use’- the washroom
hortly before.10 p.m.

When: the: man: came out.
¢. went to the counter, lifted
his shirt to expose an apparent .

automatic: handgun ‘and said,
“Do'you want: to die?:Th

~ giver me your money.
“The robber. left with a

quantity of cash.

: No one'was injured.
The robber was described

‘as. being Caucasian, 70 kg

(155 |b.) and 1.78 m (5°10”)
with acne.. He. had short.

‘blond hair and was wearing a

baseball cap: with a diamond
“on. it.. He: had a dark. jacket
“and runners.

Anyone. with. information

‘is asked to call Const. Cheryl :
-: Thomas at 985-1311. Callers
“are asked to refer to the case’s

file number::2000-14115..

ocurnents you sign can:
‘used against. you.

“‘GARRISTERS & SOLICITORS" ~
02-145 West 15th Si. North Van :

Alliance re

legal challenge

From paac 3

ing denial of fishing opp

ty regardless of their abi

meet all requirements of con-
servation and selective harvest-
ing.

If the alliance cannot per-
suade politicians of the value of
the recreational industry and its
participants” rights, if the
alliance cannot gain what it
judges to be fair management
of the fishery through FOC
and MOELPD, it will be time,
says Onvay, to open the pickle
jars and go to court.

“E was at a briefing last
month and heard a bureaucrat
from Ottawa say ‘fishing is a
privilege not a right’. No won-
der we have problems when
the Ottawa types don’t even
know the law. The law is: fish-
ing is a right for Canadians.”

He quotes from a 1996
Supreme Court of Canada
decision in Regina | »v.
Gladstone. “It should be noted
that the aboriginal rights rec-
ognized and affirmed by
s.35(1) (of the Constitution
Act, 1982) exist within a legal
context in which, since the
time. of Magna Carta, there
has been a common haw right
to fish in tidal waters that can
only be abrogated by enact-
ment of competent legislation.

“The subjects ‘of. . the
Crown are entitled as of sight

not only to navigate, but to.
fish in the high seas and tidal ©

waters alike.
“It has been unquestioned

“law that since the Magna
Carta no new exclusive fishery.
could ‘be created’ by Royal

t in tidal waters, and no
public right of fishing in such
waters, then existing, can be

taken away without compe-:

tent legislation.”

Says Orway, “The latest
legal advice we have is that this
does. not jurt apply-te tidal
_ waters. but to navigable
waters.”

other. -Suprem:
ns to support

from: fow
Court dec!

conclusion that “the: agencies:

are wrong: when they tell us
that the only purpose for

which the¥ can infringe on -
: aboriginal rights is is for conser-

a.

Ocway': rattles off quotes’

vation. The native right to fish
for food, societal and ceremo-
nial needs can be infringed for
the greater common good.

“We are not opposing the
native fishery for food or their
night to fish. We are, however,
going to assert everyone's
nght to fish. We are going to
force the government and
DFO and MOELP to live up
to all of the rulings of the
Supreme Court of Canada,
not just those parts they like
and which they see as favour-
ing the natives

Paul Macgillivray, FOC's
Pacitic Region director of fish-
cries management, believes his
department is interpreting
Supreme Court decisions cor-
rectly. He also told the News
that FOC’s policy of allocating
the available salmon resource
on the basis of conservation
first, native food, ceremonial
and treaty use ‘second and
common property needs of
the recreational and commer-
cial fishery third was an
improvement over no policy.

“Not everyone agrees with
everything in the policy, but
before it changed with every
year.”

Macgillivray also said he
was committed to getting the
sport fishing regulations out
earlier but that scientific analy-
sis of returns and a decision on
native allocations takes time to
work out. “They change by a
big amount from year to year.

“Fraser sockeye, for
instance ae on a_ four-year

-eycie and this year will be the

lowest level of returns. When
the. return is langer the: First
Nations can take a larger pro-
portion of the resource.”

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