Octavio’s basket photo Calvin Sandborn KC Camille O’Sullivan and Justine Jarvis, Law Students

The practice of “harvesting, sharing and/or receiving traditional marine resources,” is at the heart of what it means to be W̱SÁNEĆ.2 The sharing of marine foods – and the passing of traditional wisdom about harvest, preparation, practice, and ceremony – binds the community and connects elders to youth. [...] In essence, the beaches were the schools and community centres for the Pauquachin – and the closure of harvesting beaches has removed important opportunities for cultural knowledge transfer and revitalization.37 Decimation of a way of life like shellfishing has broad impacts on the passing on of culture. [...] Abundance, prosperity, and wealth are based in giving, sharing, community, ceremony, and through the quality of relationships shaped from the experience of the cosmos, to the land and to humanity, and through the recognition of life force in all things.” – Carol Anne Hilton, Indigenomics – Taking a Seat at the Economic Table (Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2021), at p. [...] 65/90 grants the CRD the powers of a municipality under section 8(3)(i) of the Community Charter to regulate, prohibit and impose requirements in relation to public health and has the authority to regulate for the maintenance of sanitary conditions per section 523 of the Local Government Act. [...] The Maintenance Assessments were more than a simple pump-out and involved an” examination of all of the components of the system, a recommendation for pumping frequency, and a detailed written report with standardized language and recommendations for repair, maintenance, and improvements.”92 [emphasis added] In addition to the reimbursement for the Assessment, if the homeowner made the repairs rec.