About the Author

Gordon Gibson is Senior Fellow in Canadian Studies at The Fraser Institute. His current areas of research include federalism, governance, and aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations.

This paper is the first publication under a study program funded by the John and Lotte Hecht Foundation. A similar version will appear in B.C. Studies, a journal of the University of British Columbia.

The Hecht Foundation project has as its goal the production of proposed principles to inform public consideration of the many emerging issues in aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations, and especially as relevant to the treaty process in British Columbia.

Mr. Gibson has also written Fraser Institute books and monographs in the filed of federalism and national unity, the best known being Plan B: The Future of the Rest of Canada, and Thirty Million Musketeers.

Mr. Gibson is also active in private business, and writes a weekly column for the Globe and Mail.