A First Nation is suing the British Columbia and federal governments and the company behind a railway terminal port in the province’s southern Interior, claiming it wasn’t property consulted about the project it says has “desecrated” its ancestral territory.
Bonaparte First Nation Chief Frank Antoine said an inland port development by Ashcroft Terminal Ltd. where ancestral remains have been found continues unabated with the support of the federal and provincial government.
The nation filed a lawsuit Wednesday, saying it has been wrongfully misled and shut out of the development process.
In June 2021, Antoine said members of the Bonaparte staged a sit-in protest on the site of Ashcroft Terminal’s inland port, just over
