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Article: Globalization in a regional context.('Lot 363 Scandal' involving Canada's National Democratic Party and the United Church of Canada)
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- March 1, 1999
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In the spring of 1995, NDP Aboriginal Affairs minister - and United Church clergyman - John Cashore made a speech to Vancouver businessmen which was startling in its implications. Cashore declared that a "new era" had dawned in relations between corporations and First Nations, and that his government would no longer "stand in the way" of direct agreements between business and native bands over such things as logging rights and access to minerals on indigenous land.
Consequently, Cashore stated that so-called "internal free trade agreements" between native leaders and multinational corporations were "the way of the future", and that his government would encourage ...