No. of Recommendations: 1
They're not secret. You can read the agreements at the links at the bottom of the government's press release announcing them back in February:
Several of those links seem to be agreements to set up relationships, like the fisheries one.
The declaration of rights has some cool stuff in it:
Our legal tradition addressed key principles such as permissible access and presence in the territory and mechanisms to address uninvited or unwelcomed people (known as trespassers in the modern-context). We have consistently protected and governed access to our territory and resources throughout our history.
Ooo, here's a good one:
At great investment, Musqueam has pursued various avenues to secure recognition of its rights. The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has recognized and determined that Aboriginal title is an inherent right and a legal interest in land and includes a jurisdictional and inescapable economic component and the right to participate in decisions about the use and development of territory. Musqueam's Aboriginal title has not been extinguished. It is Musqueam's inherent rights and title which serve as the foundation for arrangements that seek to support a sustainable, modern Musqueam economy that reflects the economic component of Musqueam rights.
Musqueam has a long-standing history of successfully entering into and maintaining arrangements with various levels of governments, Crown corporations and industry partners based upon Musqueam's inherent title and rights and the core principle of nə́c̓aʔmat ct. Such arrangements represent a clear demonstration of Musqueam's proven and ongoing ability to implement our inherent rights and jurisdiction within Musqueam territory and to beneficially contribute to the economic and social fabric of Canada.
Heh.
In its 1976 Declaration, Musqueam describes šxʷtəl̕a :wməxʷ ʔə ƛ̓ xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam's native/ancestral place), as the lands, lakes and streams defined and included by a line commencing at Harvey Creek in the Howe Sound and proceeding Eastward to the height of land and continuing on the height of land around the entire watershed draining into English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm; South along the height of land between Coquitlam River and Brunette River to the Fraser River, across to the South of left bank of the main stream and the South Arm to the sea, including all those intervening lands, islands and waters back along the sea shore to Harvey Creek, and the sea, its reefs, flats, tidal lands and islands adjacent to the above described land and out to the centre of the Straight of Georgia.
It is Musqueam's view that through its kinship ties, Musqueam accessed and utilized the Salish Sea and adjacent lands and waterways, extending up the Fraser River to the Fraser Canyon and adjacent lands and waterways.
Musqueam has unextinguished Rights and Title within the Musqueam Territory. Musqueam has and continues to exercise Rights and Title within its traditional territory. The existence of Musqueam's unextinguished Rights and Title within Musqueam Territory is not contingent on recognition by court declaration or any agreement.
That's basically all of Vancouver. "Unextinguished rights and title".
The Parties wish to continue moving beyond historic legacies of Crown denial, unilateralism and the Doctrine of Discovery to a new nation-to-nation, government-to-government relationship based on the recognition of rights, reconciliation, respect, co-operation and partnership as the foundation for transformative change.
This is a list of declarations and principles...and has very few specifics.
I like the nation-to-nation part. That means citizens of Canada get to deal with a whole other country inside of British Columbia now. One that by design doesn't have anything written down in terms of its laws.
