Summary:
Neil Sterritt, Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Tribal Council: I’m not going to give up. The Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en people are not going to give up.
Ian Gill, CBC reporter: Within two hours of today’s stunning setback before BC’s Supreme Court the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en people were passing judgment of their own. In a spontaneous display of emotion the tribal chiefs and their people emphatically renounced Chief Justice Allan McEachern’s 400-hundred page decision.
Neil Sterritt: Reasons for judgment. What we received, was a judgment without reason. This is Canada’s shame.
…Jim Davidson, Mayor of Smithers: I can understand that they will be hostile to the judgment but I don’t think that will further their case. Roadblocks and so on will be met with resistence.
…Ian Gill: …will the roadblocks go back up again and will BC’s
history of conflict and division continue to repeat itself here? In a sense,
these are questions for the days and weeks ahead as the full impact of the decision
begins to sink in. But today the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en are singing songs
of anger and defiance, songs that will only get louder in the face of a justice
system they say has failed to listen to them once again…