I can tell you that I've worked with and identified 102 first nations in British Columbia that support the transition to land-based closed containment. It's because people have now become more in tune with just what the impacts represent.
The fact is that this is something that needs to happen. When we heard of the announcement and we read the words, it was to “transition”, not to “develop a plan” to transition. Across B.C., 102 first nations support this government in that action, and by doing so, it would approach a very broad-stroke reconciliation effort across the province. It could go a long way to removing what is understood as systemic racism based upon 21 years of ignoring the Marshall decision as well as all these years without meaningfully implementing the Sparrow decision.
How else can that be viewed from a first nations perspective, other than as systemic racism?