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Tenants of a 6,000-unit rental housing project proposed for Kits Point in Vancouver will be protected under either the provincial Residential Tenancy Act or something very much like it, according to a Squamish First Nation councillor.

“We could set up our own system, with its own regulations and bylaws similar to the Act, but slightly different,” said Khelsilem, who goes by one name. “Some First Nations have opted to do that. But given the scale of the proposed development we might opt to bring the RTA into force on those reserve lands for that project.”

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Provincial residential tenancy law often has little or no force on First Nations reserve lands.

Squamish Nation Council will decide what system to adopt in partnership with its development partner, Westbank, after the project is put to a referendum of the Nation’s members. But for now they are leaning toward using the existing provincial apparatus rather than creating and staffing a parallel system.