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Smithers Councillor Bill Goodacre takes issue with BV Arts & Culture Centre

Smithers Councillor Bill Goodacre says council has failed to properly include the Office of the Wet’suwet’en in plans for a BV Arts and Culture Centre.

Goodacre says none of the proposed options for the centre includes any serious Witsuwit’en presence.

“Especially when you use the word culture – well you’ve got a ten-thousand-year-old culture that has inhabited this territory – and to do a project like this and to not have them deeply involved is something I find disturbing,” says Goodacre.

“We’ve only been for a little over 100 years and we act like we’re the sole proprietors of the area – I called it the politics of exclusion.”

Council is looking at spending 10 million dollars on the centre that will house things like the library, museum and visitor centre. Goodacre sees that number soaring possibly up to 18 million.

He thinks they should go back to the drawing board to further include the Office of the Wet’suwet’en.

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