2025 Annual Report
The 2025 Annual Report highlights the many achievements made in the negotiations process over the course of the year, and celebrates 50 years of modern treaties in Canada and 25 years since the first modern treaty in British Columbia. The report also highlights the successful ratification of two treaties which occurred in March and April […]
2024 Annual Report
The 2024 report focuses on achievements made in the negotiations process and reinforces that building healthy, prosperous, self-governing Nations forges a brighter future for all British Columbians and Canadians. It spotlights the three modern treaties that were initialled in 2024 (Kitselas Treaty: A Living Agreement, the Kitsumkalum Treaty: A Living Agreement, and the K’omoks Treaty: […]
2023 Annual Report
The 2023 report highlights a feature on Tsawwassen First Nation and negotiation progress including s.87 tax-exemption reinstatement and continuance under modern treaties, advancement of innovative approaches at negotiation tables, and key discussions on the enforcement of First Nations laws. There are four advanced treaty tables on the cusp of reaching key milestones to conclude negotiations. […]
2022 Annual Report
September 21, 2022 marked the start of the 30th anniversary year of the signing of the BC Treaty Commission Agreement. Over the past three decades, Modern Treaty First Nations and First Nations in the Made-in-BC treaty negotiations process have accomplished and continue to achieve remarkable successes. Critical changes to the negotiations process have occurred. One […]
2021 Annual Report
The 2021 annual report highlights four innovative tripartite agreements achieved in the past year that demonstrate innovations and new approaches to treaty and tripartite reconciliation negotiations. These negotiations are supported by the recent Recognition and Reconciliation of Rights Policy for Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia.
2020 Annual Report
Indigenous sovereignty is a foundational principle of Indigenous rights and is fundamental to reconciliation. The constitutional imperative of modern treaties represents a sharing of power – a sharing of sovereignty – between Indigenous Nations and governments. This year’s annual report highlights this important aspect of treaty negotiations.
2019 Annual Report
This year marked significant progress in treaty negotiations and rights recognition. Longstanding issues that have burdened the treaty negotiations process are finally addressed through policy changes and assurances from the federal and provincial governments. The Treaty Commission’s 2019 annual report celebrates the new era of Indigenous rights recognition in BC.
2018 Annual Report
This year’s report covers how modern treaties fit within new policy initiatives, and how negotiations are already providing flexible and innovative answers to many of the important questions on Indigenous rights.
2017 Annual Report
The report focuses on the benefits modern treaties bring to regional economies, and the importance of local government support in advancing treaty negotiations.
2016 Annual Report
In this year’s annual report, seven First Nations leaders discuss how modern treaties strengthen their path to self-determination, while embodying the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).