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However, what the draft agreement achieved gets at aspects of the Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa Supreme Court of Canada decision that have remained unresolved since 1997, Horgan said, which formed part of the underlying dispute over the Coastal GasLink project.

“All parties found a pause opportunity so that the discussions could take place,” Horgan said in the legislature, and arrived at another element in the “path forward” with respect to recognizing Aboriginal rights and title.

Outside the legislature, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Scott Fraser said that the pipeline is “an issue that we agree to disagree on, at this point.”

“The press forward is to deal with the rights and title of the Wet’suwet’en people, a unity of the Wet’suwet’en people in (their) governance structure, and all of these things are outstanding and have been for 23 years,” Fraser said.

Details of the draft arrangement were not released and will stay with the Wet’suwet’en as they seek to ratify the deal through their traditional feast process, which is expected to take up to two weeks.

As it is ratified, one Wet’suwet’en leader wants to make sure that the arrangement, which was negotiated between Fraser, federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and the First Nation’s hereditary chiefs, includes the voice of their elected leadership.

Wet’suwet’en communities remain divided over the project, with one side welcoming the jobs and training opportunities the Coastal GaslLinks project is bringing as economic reconciliation while the other side objects over environmental concerns.