Tourism vs. virus anxiety: Nuu-Chah-Nulth council resists opening to visitors

By Cindy E. Harnett/Times Colonist
B.C. Premiere concerned tourism will stall if First Nations close communities

B.C. Premier John Horgan said there will be an impasse if B.C.’s plan to reopen domestic tourism province-wide is met with plans to close communities. On Tuesday, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council, representing 14 First Nations along 300 kilometres of west Vancouver Island coast, voted unanimously to restrict non-essential entry to its lands-including provincial and federal parks-unless several assurances around testing are put in place.…

• Whistler News

June 11, 2020

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