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[Frank Brown]:In 1996, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision that recognized our commercial aboriginal fishing rights to harvest and sell herring roe.

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[Frank Brown]:The Gladstone brothers, Bill Gladstone and the late Don Gladstone, they were charged with black marketeering herring roe.

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[Frank Brown]:And they went to court and they said that this is what our forefathers did.

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[Frank Brown]:They traded and sold it to our neighbors.

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[Frank Brown]:And more recently, even to the Japanese.

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[Frank Brown]:And the courts upheld.

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[Frank Brown]:They went through multiple layers of courts right to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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[Frank Brown]:It took them nine years.

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[Frank Brown]:and they were vindicated and the Supreme Court of Canada agreed that there was an unbroken line of commerce and trade prior to British Columbia joining Confederation.

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[Frank Brown]:And so it was very disheartening to see the forces of Canada come up against us and constantly deny

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[Frank Brown]:What we always knew was our customary practices of harvesting the resources from the land and the sea and for 10,000 years our people have lived here.