Court of Appeals dismisses Ktunaxa’s appeal – Columbia Valley Pioneer

The B.C. Court of Appeals has dismissed the Ktunaxa First Nation’s appeal of the B.C. Supreme Court’s ruling last year in favour of the provincial government in the Ktunaxa’s legal case against the approval of Jumbo Glacier Resort.

The original petition argued that the Ktunaxa had not properly been consulted during the approval process, which eventually resulted in the provincial government signing a Master Development Agreement for Jumbo Glacier Resort with Glacier Resorts Ltd. in 2012, and that building a ski resort in the Upper Jumbo Valley and Upper Farnham areas would infringes on Qatmuk, a territory the Ktunaxa consider sacred. The petition was dismissed in April 2014, with the judge in that case writing that his his opinion “the accommodations offered (to the Ktunaxa by the provincial government) fall within a range of reasonable responses which upholds the honour of the Crown and satisfied the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate the Ktunaxa’s asserted Aboriginal rights.”

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