Roving Correspondent, Elizabeth James, with Another News Flash

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALL TO ACTION - Tuesday August 28th - 11 to Noon - Cambie at 18th

"Cambie Village supports compensation to Musqueam Band, and further claims
its own permanent loss of revenue due to Canada Line construction through
its business lands in Cambie Village"

The traditional shopping grounds of the Cambie Village have had their access denied by the RAV/Canada Line Canyon running right through their village. In many announcements by the project, the members were assured that the project would go forward in a very different and much less damaging way. Villagers were told that disruption to their livelihoods would be short term, and that the impacts of this construction to their way of life would be mitigated.

"Not so", says Village member, Don Watters who represents 22 families.

"Access has been denied, and this has resulted in a permanent loss of revenue for many in the Cambie Village who have been forced to move, or who have lost everything already as a result of the negligence and misrepresentation from the project. Their prosperity as well as their property has been expropriated."

Cambie Village member Susan Heyes says "This was a plentiful shopping area for years. I have seen my numbers increasing ever since I moved here. Now, with no consultation, we feel that the project has not negotiated in good faith. With this radical change in the project, the shoppers have dwindled to the point where our way of life here is no longer sustainable."

Village elders are calling on the government to immediately adopt a Seattle-style treaty which clearly compensates Seattle members for hardship and loss related to a similar government project through their lands.

The Cambie Village Community will be holding a "CALL TO ACTION" - Tuesday, August 28th - 11AM to NOON on the corner of Cambie at 18th Ave (west side).

Come out and show your support for justice and compensation for all community members.