Martha Hall Findlay like most reporters fail to address the fact that the majority of BC First Nations (BCFN)do not have treaties with the Feds or BC. They are unceded, unconquered and untreated indigenous people who will go to the SCOC and the World Court (ICC) to protect their rights and titles to their traditional territories.

The ICC last year widen its policy on enviromental crimes - “The office [of the prosecutor] will give particular consideration to prosecuting Rome statute crimes that are committed by means of, or that result in, inter alia, the destruction of the environment, the illegal exploitation of natural resources or the illegal dispossession of land.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/15/hague-court-widens-remit-to-include-environmental-destruction-cases

If BCFN don't get the answer they should from the SCOC, using the ICC could settle the issues in BC once and for all.