Objectives, Strategies, Measures and Targets for Core Business
Areas — Continued
Treaty Negotiations
This core business area supports the following ministry
goal:
The treaty process achieves agreements, and the economic
climate is enhanced through effective negotiations
Objective:
Negotiate agreements that
create certainty and enhance economic opportunity in British
Columbia
Strategy:
Focus resources on key opportunities in order to reach
agreements with Canada and First Nations
Objective:
Support government’s major
economic priorities
Strategies:
Engage First Nations in economic opportunities (oil
and gas exploration and development, 2010 Olympics, forestry,
Central Coast initiatives, aquaculture)
Facilitate partnerships between First Nations, business,
and local government
Implement proactive strategy to address First Nation
disputes
Objective:
Build public support for
negotiations and agreements by strenthening linkages among
communities, providing information and raising awareness
Strategies:
Deal fairly with legal interests impacted by negotiations
Implement new protocol with Union of British Columbia
Municipalities regarding local government involvement
in negotiations
Implement approaches for each negotiation table that
outline accountability measures for consultation and information
sharing
Objective:
Implement obligations
arising from treaty settlements and other negotiated agreements
Strategies:
Ensure Treaty Negotiations Office obligations are met
within established timelines and support line agencies
in meeting their obligations
Implement Nisga’a Final Agreement Adjustment Project
Performance Measures:
2001/02
Base Data
2002/03
Estimates
2003/04
Target
2004/05
Target
2005/06
Target
Output
Measures
# of significant treaty-related
agreements
No data
3-4
4-6
6-9
6-9
# of significant agreements1
focusing on economic priorities
No data
2-4
10-15
10-15
10-15
# of consultation meetings
held with local governments and stakeholders on key issues
No data
40
50
60
60
# of First Nations citizens
engaged in training opportunities
Unavailable
100
200
300
300
% of TNO obligations arising
from agreements that meet established timelines2
This measure refers to agreements
that address substantive outcomes, rather than those that
focus on process.
2
New measure added to provide
a link to the implementation function of the Treaty Negotiations
Office.
3
Change in target reflects
trend for First Nations to seek court decisions that recognize
aboriginal legal interests. As government policy evolves in
response, incidents of litigation are expected to decline.
Expenditures
for Core Business Area:
(With the exception of FTEs, all figures are expressed in
thousands of dollars)
