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The Nuxalk First Nation on B.C.’s Central Coast have issued a closure notice for all recreational fishing in their territory citing provincial emergency health orders barring non-essential travel and the risk posed by COVID-19 variants.
Provincially, declining COVID-19 infection counts and increasing vaccination levels have sparked discussions about when more normal activities might resume.
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However, travel restrictions remain in place and “hunting and fishing (are) not essential,” said Peter Siwallace, a Nuxalk hereditary chief and marine-use coordinator for the Nuxalk stewardship office. “That comes from the province itself, to tell people not to travel to go recreational fishing.”
The properties that were discussed by the committee on April 12 have been designated for multi-family residential development in Langford’s Official Community Plan since 1996. That plan was devised with a great deal of public input and duly reviewed publicly and adopted through a democratic process by a democratically elected council. The land use that is being proposed was also supported by a 1999 amendment to the Official Community Plan that specifically looked at downtown revitalization and was again supported in 2008 when the City of Langford adopted its new Official Community Plan. In 2018, and again after open public consultation, Dr. Avi Friedman of McGill University prepared for Langford a three-volume Vision for Downtown Langford which was incorporated, in part, into the Official Community Plan in 2019.
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The B.C. government has said new COVID-19 restrictions that prohibit people from travelling outside their health authority will be coming Friday.
We know the government is planning to set up checkpoints, but how will they be enforced? And what is considered essential travel and will you have to prove it? B.C. residents have numerous reasons to travel outside their health authority. For example, many Lower Mainland residents live in the Fraser Health Authority but work in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
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More bad COVID news for Canucks owners as Aquilini restaurant ordered closed
Elisa steak house and the Vancouver Canucks are owned by the Aquilini Group and are both currently shutdown due to COVID-19 health measures.
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