Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Andrew Thomas, Co-Chair of the Day

File contains a presentation by Chief Andrew Thomas addressing the toxic waste located on the Esquimalt Reserve and asking why it are no toxic waste disposal facilities in all of British Columbia. Thomas is also chairman of the Land Claims Committee for the First Nations of South Island, British Columbia. He reads briefly from a report from that committee documenting the history of the Douglas Treaties and states that the Fisheries Act trumps all fishing rights negotiated during the Douglas Treaties signings. He hopes the Commission will address the fisheries problem not only as an Aboriginal right, but as a treaty right as well.