Showdown at Haida Gwaii

Members of the Haida Nation and allied protestors have seized over $50 million worth of logs on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Despite a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that insisted the BC Liberal government "consult more meaningfully" with First Nations over land use issues, Victoria never bothered to inform the Haida they approved Weyerhauser's sale of Queen Charlottes timber licenses to Brascan.

With a couple of weeks until the official start of the provincial election campaign, it appears the Lieberals are closing out their term by coming full circle with BC's First Nations: They started out with a racist and antagonistic treaty referendum that defied Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and now they finish by defying the Supreme Court of Canada. Add "certainty in the settlement of aboriginal land claims" to the pile of Liberal broken promises.