ROTHENBURGER: First Nations membership on TNRD board a complicated challenge
RECONCILIATION is a challenging path to follow. It remains unclear as to what it will ultimately look like. It seems to me, though, that until there’s some sort of political structure to it, reconciliation will remain elusive.
As an example, one possibility at the local level is a formal alliance between the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc and the Thompson Nicola Regional District that would involve TteS membership on the regional board.
I encouraged this when I was on the board and broached it with Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir. She was certainly interested though I sensed her appreciation of the challenges involved.
“I believe that we will get there,” she said.